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Rayford Whittingham Logan (January 7 1897 – November 4 1982) was an African-American historian and Pan-African activist. He was best known for his study of post-Reconstruction America a period he termed the nadir of American race relations. In the late 1940s he was the chief advisor to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on international affairs.