Frederick D. Patterson papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15000
Subjects: Correspondence; Federal aid to higher education; African American universities and colleges; Endowments; Tuskegee Institute. School of Veterinary Medicine; Robert R. Moton Memorial Institute; Civil rights; Phelps-Stokes Fund; Segregation; Education; African Americans; Tuskegee Institute
Description: Correspondence, journal, speeches, writings, reports, notes, organizational records, clippings, printed matter, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Patterson's efforts, following his retirement as president of Tuskegee Institute in 1953, to preserve and develop African American institutions of higher learning.  Documents his continued interest in Tuskegee Institute and the institute's School of Veterinary Medicine; his association with the Robert R. Moton Memorial Institute, the College Endowment Funding Plan, and the Phelps-Stokes Fund; and his inspection tour of educational resources in Nigeria (1953-1954).  Includes transcripts of oral history interviews with Patterson (1980-1981).  Subjects include George Washington Carver, civil rights, education in Africa, endowments, federal aid to higher education, Robert Russa Moton, segregation, and the South.

Correspondents include Robert L. Clayton, Nathaniel Sextus Colley, Luther H. Foster, E. Roland Harriman, Patricia Harris, Matthew Jenkins, Maida Springer Kemp, Benjamin E. Mays, Henry Lee Moon, Ponchitta Anne Pierce, Willa B. Player, Hollis F. Price, Robert Ogden Purves, Paul Simon, Caspar W. Weinberger, and Franklin Williams.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Frederick D. Patterson II, 1988-1991.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

African American educational administrator and advocate.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.