Rayford Whittingham Logan was an African-American historian and Pan-African activist.
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12 Facts About Rayford Logan
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Rayford Logan was best known for his study of post-Reconstruction America, a period he termed "the nadir of American race relations".
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Rayford Logan won a scholarship to Williams College, graduating in 1917.
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Once the war ended, Logan remained in France, absorbing both the culture and the language.
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Rayford Logan helped to co-ordinate the 2nd Pan-African Congress in Paris in 1921.
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Rayford Logan returned to the US in the early 1920s and began teaching at Virginia Union University, a historically black college in Richmond.
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In 1930 Rayford Logan started graduate studies at Harvard University, earning an MA in 1932 and a Ph.
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Rayford Logan became a professor at Howard University, where he practiced as a historian from 1938 to 1965.
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Rayford Logan drafted Roosevelt's executive order prohibiting the exclusion of blacks from the military in World War II.
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Rayford Logan was the 15th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.
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Rayford Logan died of a heart ailment at Howard University Hospital, aged 85.
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