Church members, residents and community leaders filled the lawn of Elizabeth Baptist Church Sunday afternoon for the installation of a marker dedicated to the life of John Jordan, believed to be the only documented victim of lynching in Cuyahoga County. Jordan was killed by a white mob in the early 1900s at what is now known as West 98th Street and Lorain Avenue.
Installing the marker concludes years of collaboration by Cleveland’s Black Environmental Leaders (BEL) and the Equal Justice Initiative, which has memorialized documented victims of lynching at more than 80 locations around the country in recent years.
BEL is a nonprofit organization focusing on environmental justice and climate activism with a mission to “advocate, incubate and inform.”…