Logan, Floyd L., 1901-1978

Floyd L. Logan founded the Educational Equality League in 1932 "to obtain and safeguard educational opportunities for all peoples regardless of race, color, religion, or national origin." Logan was elected president at the outset, and served in that capacity until his retirement in 1977.

Despite a Pennsylvania law forbidding segregated schools, segregation was a common practice in the Philadelphia school system. Schools were clearly segregated with African American teachers teaching only at predominantly black schools in Philadelphia. The League's foundation began to take shape when the Citizens's Committee of Ten attempted to remove a "overtly-racist" textbook. "Problems in American Democracy," from use in Philadelphia's junior and senior high schools.

The Educational Equality League made possible greater opportunities for African American teachers to be appointed to administrative positions in the Philadelphia School District. Following the United States Supreme Court's decision outlawing segregation in in public schools, the League worked strenuously with the Philadelphia Chapter of the NAACP to desgregate the private Girard College and to force the Philadelphia Board of Education to adopt an affirmative action policy in the 1960s.