Patterson, Frederick D. (Frederick Douglass), 1901-1988. Frederick D. Patterson papers, 1861-1988 (bulk 1965-1988). - View Resource (original) (raw)

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Moton, Robert Russa, 1867-1940

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Robert Russa Moton (born August 26, 1867, Amelia County, Virginia – died May 31, 1940, Holly Knoll, Virginia), American educator and author. He served as an administrator at Hampton Institute. In 1915 he was named principal of Tuskegee Institute, after the death of founder Booker T. Washington, a position he held for 20 years until retirement in 1935....

Harris, Patricia, 1924-1985

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Patricia Roberts Harris (May 31, 1924 – March 23, 1985) was an American academic, government official, and diplomat. The first African American woman to serve in the United States Cabinet, she previously served as United States Ambassador to Luxembourg under President Lyndon B. Johnson, and was the first African-American woman to represent the United States as an ambassador. She was also the first Black American woman to be dean of a law school, and the first to sit on a Fortune 500 company's bo...

Kemp, Maida Springer, 1910-2005

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Maida Springer Kemp (1910 – 2005) was an American labor organizer who worked extensively in the garment industry for a lot of labor standards at the time for men and women in America through the Local Union 22. She was also known for her extensive work in Africa for the AFL–CIO. Nicknamed "Mama Maida", she advised fledgling labor unions, set up education and training programs, and liaised between American and African labor leaders. In 1945, traveling to England on a labor-exchange trip, as well ...

Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943

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Agricultural scientist, teacher, humanitarian, artist, and Iowa State alumnus (1894, 1896). George Washington Carver was born ca. 1864, the son of slaves on the Moses Carver plantation near Diamond Grove, Missouri. He lost his father in infancy, and at the age of 6 months was stolen along with his mother by raiders, but was later found and traded back to his owner for a $300 race horse. He enrolled in Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa in 1890 studying music and art. Etta Budd, his art instructor ...

Moon, Henry Lee, 1901-1985

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Journalist; Mr. Moon d.1984. From the description of Reminiscences of Henry Lee Moon and Robert C. Weaver : oral history, 1980. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309742018 ...

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

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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 ...

Foster, Luther H. (Luther Hilton), 1913-

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Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Luther H. Foster : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527571 Luther Hilton Foster was born May 26, 1888 in Clover, Halifax County, Virginia. He was the son of Oliver S. and Mary Elizabeth Foster. His early childhood schooling was at the public school of Halifax County and the Saint Paul's Polytechnic institute in Lawrenceville, Virginia. Here he completed hi...

Simon, Paul, 1928-2003

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U.S. Senator, Congressman, presidential candidate, Illinois lieutenant governor and member of the Illinois House of Representatives and Illinois State Senate, author. Bought a newspaper in Troy, Ill. when he was 19 and eventually owned 14 newspapers. Authored books on Elijah Lovejoy and Abraham Lincoln as well as issues like world hunger and the environment. After retiring from the senate he founded the Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale where he taught and con...

Phelps-Stokes Fund

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The Phelps and Stokes families had long been associated with a variety of philanthropic enterprises in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Phelps-Stokes Fund was created in 1911 as a non-profit foundation under the will of Caroline Phelps Stokes. Its original objectives were to improve housing for the poor in New York City, and the "education of Negroes, both in Africa and the United States, North American Indians, and needy and deserving white students." The contacts maintained by the staff and tr...

Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894-1984

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Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Benjamin E. Mays : oral history, 1980. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527874 Benjamin E. Mays (1895- ), president of Morehouse College during the Atlanta 1960-1961 sit-ins. From the description of Benjamin Elijah Mays oral history interview, 1978 Nov. 29. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38727125 President of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga., from 1940...

Price, Hollis F., 1904-

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College president. From the description of Reminiscences of Hollis Price : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122608290 ...

Williams, Franklin, 1917-

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Ambassador, foundation president. From the description of Reminiscences of Franklin Hall Williams : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122574202 Ambassador. From the description of Reminiscences of Franklin Hall Williams : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122565379 Franklin Hall Williams was an African-American civil rights lawyer, diplo...

Weinberger, Caspar W.

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U.S. secretary of defense; U.S. secretary of health, education, and welfare; California state legislator; lawyer; journalist; and business executive. Full name: Caspar Willard Weinberger. Born 1917; died 2006. From the description of Caspar W. Weinberger papers, 1910-2005 (bulk 1951-2005). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009624 ...