1939. His will included a bequest to fund the Spingarn Medal in perpetuity. Recognition Spingarn Senior High School in Washington, D.C. In 2009, Spingarn was among 12 civil rights leaders honored with images appearing on 6 American postage stamps issued to mark the centenary of the NAACP. The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University is named for his brother Arthur. Works As Author—Scholarship A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance (1899 and 1908) The New Criticism: A Lecture Delivered at Columbia University, March 9, 1910 (1911) Creative Criticism: Essays on the Unity of Genius and Taste (1917) Creative Criticism and Other Essays (1931) As Editor Critical Essays of the Seventeenth-Century, 3 vols. (1908-09) Goethe's Literary Essays (1921) As Contributor Criticism in America, its Functions and Status: Essays by... (1924) Karl Vossler, ed., Mediæval Culture: An Introduction to Dante and his Times (1929) As Author—Poetry The New Hesperides, and Other Poems (1911) Poems (1924) Poetry and Religion: Six Poems (1924) See also African-American – Jewish relations References Further reading B. Joyce Ross, J.E. Spingarn and the rise of the NAACP, 1911-1939 (New York: Atheneum, 1972) Marshall Van Deusen, J.E. Spingarn'' (NY: Twayne Publishers, 1970) External links 1875 births 1939 deaths American Jews Columbia College (New York) alumni American literary critics Columbia University faculty NAACP activists New York (state) Republicans New York (state) Progressives (1912) 20th-century American politicians Comparative literature academics