Correspondence, diaries, and biographical material documenting Logan's concern with racial inequality and his career as an historian of Africans and African Americans. Topics include his army service in France during World War I; the Pan-African movement of the 1920s and 1930s; Haitian diplomatic soirées; the founding conference of the United Nations, San Francisco, Calif. (1945); Logan's meetings with African independence leaders, Kwame Nkrumah and Nnamdi Azikiwe; colleagues including Mordecai W. Johnson; and his career at Howard University. Correspondents include Harry T. Burleigh, Betty Riis, Roger William Riis, and Logan's wife, Ruth Robinson Logan.
Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1998.
Historian and educator; died 1982.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010010
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Azikiwe, Nnamdi, 1904-1996. Burleigh, H. T. 1866-1949 --Correspondence. Johnson, Mordecai W. 1890-1976. Logan, Ruth Robinson--Correspondence. Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972. Riis, Betty--Correspondence. Riis, Roger William, 1894- --Correspondence.
Howard University--Faculty.
United Nations Conference on International Organization San Francisco, Calif.) (1945 :
Africans. African American universities and colleges. African Americans. Diplomatic and consular service, Haitian--United States. Equality. Pan-Africanism. Race discrimination. Universities and colleges--Washington (D.C.) World War, 1914-1918--France.
Africa--History--Autonomy and independence movements. Haiti--Social life and customs.