The son of a member of the Niagara Movement, a civil rights organization founded in 1905 that prefigured the NAACP, Edwin B. Jourdain was a journalist, activist, and politician. Jourdain left HBS for Evanston, Illinois, where he became its first African American alderman. Also appointed the first African American assistant state superintendent of public instruction in Illinois, Jourdain fought for integration in schools and public facilities.
