Marian Bruce

Marian Bruce Logan (1919- 1993) was a civil rights advocate, a New York City Commissioner of Human Rights, and a cabaret singer who performed in clubs in New York City, Paris, and London in the 1940s and 1950s. When she retired from the stage, she married Dr. Arthur Logan. She then began working on civil rights initiatives, including with Jackie Robinson on the Student Emergency Fund. Logan was aclose friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who baptized her son, and a campaign aide for political figures, such as Nelson A. Rockefeller, Robert F. Kennedy and Robert F. Wagner.