Patterson, Frederick D. (Frederick Douglass), 1901-1988

Variant names
Dates:
Birth 1901-10-10
Death 1988-04-26

Biographical notes:

African American educational administrator and advocate.

From the description of Frederick D. Patterson papers, 1861-1988 (bulk 1965-1988). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132581

African American educator.

From the description of Papers, 1861-1988 (bulk 1965-1988). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 28424351

College president.

From the description of Reminiscences of Frederick Douglass Patterson : oral history, 1980. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122597255

From the description of Reminiscences of Frederick Douglass Patterson : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122586783

Biographical Note

1901, Oct. 10 Born, Washington, D.C. 1923 Doctor of veterinary medicine, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa 1923 1927 Instructor, veterinary science, Virginia State College, Petersburg, Va. 1927 Master of science, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa 1927 1928 Director of agriculture, Virginia State College, Petersburg, Va. 1928 1933 Head, Veterinary Division, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. 1932 Doctor of philosophy, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 1933 1935 Director, School of Agriculture, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. 1935 Married Catherine E. Moton, daughter of Robert Russa Moton, second president of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. 1935 1953 President, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. 1943 1944 Established United Negro College Fund 1944 Published essay in What the Negro Wants, edited by Rayford W. Logan (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press. 352 pp.) 1953 1954 Inspected and evaluated educational resources in Nigeria on behalf of the World Bank/International Bank Commission 1953 1958 Director of Education, Phelps-Stokes Fund, New York, N.Y. 1956 Co-editor with William Hardin Hughes of Robert Russa Moton of Hampton and Tuskegee (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press. 238 pp.) 1958 1970 President, Phelps-Stokes Fund 1964 1966 President, United Negro College Fund, New York, N.Y. 1969 1973 President, Robert Russa Moton Memorial Institute, New York, N.Y. 1973 1984 Director, College Endowment Funding Plan, New York, N.Y. 1976 Published College Endowment Funding Plan (Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education. 120 pp.) 1985 Received White House Private Sector Initiative Commendation 1987 Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom 1988, Apr. 26 Died, New Rochelle, N.Y. 1991 Posthumous publication of Patterson's autobiography, Chronicles of Faith, edited by Martia Graham Goodson (Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press. 220 pp.)

From the guide to the Frederick D. Paterson Papers, 1861-1988, (bulk 1965-1988), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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Subjects:

  • Education
  • Education
  • African American universities and colleges
  • African American universities and colleges
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • Civil rights
  • College presidents
  • Universities and colleges
  • Discrimination in housing
  • Educational fund raising
  • Education Nigeria
  • Endowments
  • Endowments
  • Federal aid to higher education
  • Veterinary medicine
  • Segregation
  • Segregation
  • Veterinary colleges
  • Voyages and travels

Occupations:

  • African American college administrators
  • College administrators
  • Fund raisers (Persons)

Places:

  • Nigeria (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Africa (as recorded)
  • Southern States (as recorded)
  • Nigeria (as recorded)
  • Southern States. (as recorded)
  • Alabama (as recorded)
  • Africa (as recorded)

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