Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Martha Jordan
Martha Jordan
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| Other authors / contributors: | Jordan, Martha, interviewee.
Gines, Denise, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Denise Gines, interviewer.
Recorded Las Vegas, Nevada 2007 April 6.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Entertainer and dancer Martha Jordan was born on January 22, 1927 in St. Louis, Missouri. She attended Sumner High School where she danced in the Y Circus. At the age of sixteen, Jordan worked as a chorus girl at the Plantation Club in St. Louis. Jordan performed with chorus lines for shows that featured Cab Calloway, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington and Pearl Bailey. At the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas, she appeared in Larry Steele's Smart Affairs, one of the first all-African American shows. In 1966, Jordan married musician and songwriter Louis Jordan. She sang and danced with her husband and managed his finances. After she stopped touring in the 1970s, Jordan worked as an office manager for a Santa Monica elementary school. In 1980, Jordan moved to Las Vegas where she worked for the Las Vegas Police Department as a records technician. She retired in 1990.
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