Rayford Logan Residence (Washington, D.C.)

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Dr. Rayford Logan (1897-1982), was an eminent historian, editor, and civil rights activist. Between 1925 and 1938 Logan taught at Virginia Union University and Atlanta University, and also served as Carter Woodson's assistant at the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. He also earned a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1932. In 1938 Logan joined the history faculty of Howard University, where he taught until 1965. As an activist, Logan helped organize voter registration drives and citizenship schools in the 1920s and 1930s. Among other works, he wrote The Betrayal of the Negro (1954 and 1965). His groundbreaking Dictionary of American Negro Biography is the field's standard reference, which continues to be revised and updated.