Rayford w logan biography of michael jordan

Historian

Faced Racism at Home

Moved into the Academic World

Assessed the Black Experience in America

Selected writings

Sources

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 black 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 II, and serving as an observer at the United Nations following the war.

“Logan was a distinguished African American intellectual and scholar; a Pan Africanist and civil rights activist; an associate of better-known black leaders … and an inveterate politicker and socializer among black bourgeoisie,” wrote his biographer, Kenneth R.

Janken, in the Negro History Bulletin.

Logan’s career also demonstrated the dif