Atlanta Daily World

Rayford W. Logan Heard At Shaw University

RALEIGH, N.C. - (SNS) - Dr. Rayford W. Logan, professor and head of the department of history at Atlanta University, was the principal speaker at the Shaw University Vespers Sunday February 13. Choosing Haiti as the subject of his discussion on a program designed to celebrate Negro History Week at Shaw University, Dr. Logan outlined the history of Haiti stressing development of the country under Negro leadership. Dr. Logan attached considerable significance to the caste and class system evidenced in Haitian life and used it as an illustration of the fact that the Negro is not particularly different from other races in their reactions to economic, political, and sociological conditions. Given the same stimuli the Negro will conduct himself in the same fashion as do the so-called Aryan races. Accordingly, it is assured that any approach to the Negro problem should be made through the needs of the community in which he finds himself rather than through the peculiarity of the Negro himself.