aged 85. Legacy and honors In 1980, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. His longtime residence in the Brookland section of Washington, DC, is a designated site of the city's African-American Heritage Trail. Selected bibliography The Betrayal of the Negro (1954/ Collier Books reprint 1965) online Dictionary of American Negro Biography (updated edition, W. W. Norton, 1982; ) online The Negro in the United States (Van Nostrand Co, 1970) online The Negro in American Life and Thought: The Nadir, 1877–1901 (Dial Press, 1954) The African Mandates in World Politics (Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1948) The Senate and the Versailles Mandate System (The Minorities Publishers, 1945; 1975) The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Haiti, 1776–1891 (1941; 1969, ) Haiti and the Dominican Republic (1968; Oxford University Press) online References Further reading External links University of Washington "Rayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African American Intellectual". University of Massachusetts Press 1897 births 1982 deaths 20th-century African-American writers 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers African-American male writers Alpha Phi Alpha presidents American male non-fiction writers Harvard University alumni Historians of race relations Historians of the United States Howard University faculty Spingarn Medal winners Williams College alumni Writers from Washington, D.C.