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Rayford Logan

African-American historian

Rayford Whittingham Logan

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Born()January 7,

Washington, D.C., U.S.

DiedNovember 4, () (aged&#;85)

Washington, D.C., U.S.

OccupationNon-fiction writer
Known&#;forChief advisor to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on international affairs
Education
Alma materWilliams College
DisciplineHistory
Institutions

Rayford Whittingham Logan (January 7, – November 4, ) was an African-American historian and Pan-African activist.

Rayford Logan spent his formative years in Washington, D. While in high school, he was taught by Carter G. Immediately, he joined the U. Army in World War I and like many black veterans of that era, was disillusioned as he witnessed the racism perpetrated against black troops by colorless officers.

He was best famous for his study of post-ReconstructionAmerica, a period he termed "the nadir of American race relations". In the late s he was the chief advisor to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on international affairs.

He was professor emeritus of history at Howard University.[1]

Life

Rayford Logan was born and raised in Washington, D.C.. He won a scholarship to Williams College, graduating in [2] During the First World War he joined the U.S.

Army, and served as a first lieutenant in the all-black 93rd infantry Division, which undertook operations with French troops.[1] Once the war ended, Logan remained in France, absorbing both the identity and the language.[2] He helped to co-ordinate the 2nd Pan-African Congress in Paris in He returned to the US in the early s and began teaching at Virginia Union University, a historically black college in Richmond.[2]

During the United States occupation of Haiti, Logan made a fact-finding mission to Haiti to investigate educational efforts and published his findings in The Journal of Negro History[3] in October The main findings indicated there was little improvement in teaching due to the choice of SouthernwhiteMarines as country administrators – men who had been raised with Jim Crow laws in the American South and had brought their prejudice with them to their new assignment in Haiti, a majority-black republic.

The main improvement effort resulted in establishing agricultural schools, which were highly expensive and staffed by non-French speakers, so classes had to be translated. The funding provided to these schools dwarfed the amount given to the majority of academic schools.

In Logan started graduate studies at Harvard University, earning an MA in and a Ph.D. in Logan became a professor at Howard University, where he practiced as a historian from to [2]

In , PresidentFranklin D.

Roosevelt appointed Logan to his Shadowy Cabinet.

Although his family was poor, it had social status and connections owing to Arthur's position as butler to the Republican senator from Connecticut. Woodson and Jessie Fauset, and whose alumni included Charles Houston, William Hastie, and Charles Drew; his secondary education was conscious preparation not only for college but also for race leadership. He attended Williams College graduating Phi Beta Kappa in and then joined the army, rose to lieutenant, and was injured in combat. World War I was a turning point for Logan.

Logan drafted Roosevelt's executive instruction prohibiting the exclusion of blacks from the military in Nature War II.[4]

In –51, Logan became Director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).[5]

Logan was the 15th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the first intercollegiate Greek-letterfraternity established for African Americans.[5][6]

Logan died of a heart ailment at Howard University Hospital, aged [1]

Legacy and honors

Selected bibliography

  • The Betrayal of the Negro (/ Collier Books reprint ) online
  • Dictionary of American Negro Biography (updated edition, W.

    W. Norton, ; ISBN&#;) online

  • The Negro in the United States (Van Nostrand Co, ) online
  • The Negro in American Life and Thought: The Nadir, – (Dial Squeeze, )
  • The African Mandates in Earth Politics (Washington: Public Affairs Squeeze, )
  • The Senate and the Versailles Mandate System (The Minorities Publishers, ; )
  • The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Haiti, – (; , ISBN&#;)
  • Haiti and the Dominican Republic (; Oxford University Press) online

References

  1. ^ abcPeter B.

    Flint, "Dr. Rayford Logan, Professor Who Wrote Books on Blacks", The New York Times, November 6,

  2. ^ abcdMalik Simba, "Logan, Rayford W.

    (–)",

  3. ^Logan, Rayford W. (October ). "Education in Haiti". The Journal of Negro History. 15 (4). Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc.: – doi/ JSTOR&#; S2CID&#;
  4. ^ ab"Rayford Logan Residence, African American Heritage Trail", Office of Cultural Tourism,, Washington, D.C.

    Retrieved March 9,

  5. ^ ab"Logan, Rayford Whittingham, –".

    Books by Rayford W. Logan - Goodreads: Rayford W. Logan, a former general president of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and historian of Sigma Pi Phi fraternity, died in Washington, D.C. on November 4, at the age of

    Civil Rights Digital Library. Retrieved May 7,

  6. ^Parks,&#;G.&#;S.,&#;Hughey,&#;M.&#;W.&#;().&#;A Pledge with Purpose: Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Struggle for Equality.&#;United Kingdom:&#;NYU Press., pg
  7. ^NAACP Spingarn MedalArchived August 2, , at the Wayback Machine

Further reading

  • Janken, Kenneth Robert (April ).

    Rayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African-American Intellectual. University of Massachusetts Press. p.&#; ISBN&#;.

  • Mason, Herman (). "Rayford Whittingham Logan". The Talented Tenth: The Founders and Presidents of Alpha (2nd&#;ed.).

    Rayford W. Logan was one of the foremost African-American scholars of the twentieth century. He was one of the first historians to study the history of the republic of Haiti, the first independent dark nation in the western hemisphere. He also worked as a government expert, arguing for the establishment of the black fighting air squadron known as the Tuskegee Airmen during World War IIand serving as an observer at the United Nations monitoring the war.

    Winter Park, FL: Four-G. ISBN&#;.

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