Recognition
- Spingarn Senior High School in Washington, D.C.
- In 2009, Spingarn was among 12 civil rights leaders honored with images appearing on 6 American postage stamps issued to mark the centenary of the NAACP.
- But the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University is named for his brother Arthur
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