Access to student records (consisting of graded materials and student recommendation letters), grant proposals sent to Harris for review by grant agencies, and part of his faculty recruitment files are restricted until 2081. Series 10. Computer Files are also restricted due to preservation concerns.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Marvin Harris papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Access to student records (consisting of graded materials and student recommendation letters), grant proposals sent to Harris for review by grant agencies, and part of his faculty recruitment files are restricted until 2081. Series 10. Computer Files are also restricted due to preservation concerns.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Marvin Harris papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of the United States, Appellants, vs. Cinque, and others, Africans, captured in the Schooner Amistad
Argument of Roger S. Baldwin, of New Haven, Before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Case of the United States, Appellants, vs. Cinque, and Others, Africans of Amistad
Written by:
Roger Sherman Baldwin, American, 1793 - 1863 Search this
Subject of:
Sengbe Pieh, Sierra Leonean, 1814 - 1879 Search this
Supreme Court of the United States, American, founded 1789 Search this
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Collection Citation:
Courtesy of the U. S. National Archives and Records Administration, FamilySearch International, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
This folder holds material from the many administrative positions and committees Karp chaired at Emory. The free-standing files in the "EMORY" folder concern three main projects: A) Dean Robert Paul asked Karp to lead a committee to review and redefine Emory College policies on research support and leave in the Humanities and Social Sciences. B) Dean Paul also later asked Karp to assist Sam Cherribi in developing a concept, structure and proposal for a unit called Emory Development Initiative (predating the Development Studies program at Emory). The unit was also to raise funds from donors (the suffix JPA on one file indicates that Jennifer Arnett from the development office worked on the draft). Karp helped Cherribi with reports,
drafts, proposals etc. and EDI worked with CSPS on some programs. C) Dean Lisa Tedesco asked Karp to work with Rosemary Hynes of the Graduate School to redesign the program of graduate student research funding and conference funding. Other files here are a) a draft of the terms Karp and Kratz were discussing with the dean in relation to the first retirement agreement they negotiated (this was later changed and full retirement postponed until August 2013); b) draft language Karp was sending to the Vice Provost for International concerning a letter nominating Kratz for Emory's Creekmore award; and c) comments on the draft report that would be part of the review of the Office of International Affairs and Vice Provost for International at the time, Holli Semetko.
Kratz divided other Emory material into a series of subfolders. See specific notes on "CSPS" subfolder for the wide-ranging work done through the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship. Other subfolders:
"Development_Studies" covers some of the work Karp did as co-chair (with Rick Doner) of the Arts and Sciences Development Studies Steering Committee, appointed to develop the structure and intellectual foci of a Development Studies
Program at Emory. The committee met initially for a semester, then extended. Included are draft memos for the dean to send to committee members, a report that outlines the proposed program and budget, memos to administrators to followup on resources committed. "DevelopmentStudiesResourcesFlowchart2.doc" adapts a flowchart Kratz created for the Grant Writing Program to Development Studies. The committee predated the Laney Graduate School's involvement in and development of the Masters in Development Practice program. Emory College did start a Development Studies program based on the work of this committee.
"FORD" covers initiatives from when Karp was directing both the Institute of African Studies (IAS) and the Emory Center for International Studies (ECIS) (1996-1999) as well as some later, related work. This involved a number of outside foundation
grants. There were grants from the Ford Foundation's Crossing Borders program through ECIS, and IAS had a Ford grant for a program called African Initiatives in Knowledge (AIK) working with other Atlanta universities. There was a second funding round for the latter program, which was applied for, but relations in the university consortium were fraying and the other universities decided to have their own focus rather than work together (files for their separate projects are in this folder). That was not funded.There was also a second round of funding through Ford's Crossing Border's program in 1999. When that opportunity arose Karp decided to assist and promote a colleague to develop the next phase, so he worked with Bruce Knauft to create the Vernacular Modernities program as the followup (draft in file "fordbecky.txt"). In 1997 Karp also led Emory's submission to the Mellon Foundation for a Sawyer Seminar; files relating to that include the overall framing introduction ("SAWYER") and the specific proposal he developed with Abdullahi An-Naim ("MELLON_SAWYER"). Files include draft proposals and budgets, draft text by various colleagues who were working together on the proposals and the two working groups of the Crossing Borders program (Comparative Postcolonial Culture and Comparative Development and Industrialization), memos to Emory and Ford administration, and announcements to recruit the graduate student fellows for the Crossing Borders program. Several files address the future of ECIS; Karp had been mandated to restructure it and to propose a larger organization to consolidate area studies and comparative work at Emory.
Also included in the"FORD" folder is a position paper that Karp was invited to write for Ford (the file "FORD2" is one version of it) as they were rethinking their area studies programs and funding. This was all happening in the mid-late 1990s, when
there was a rethinking of area studies and its Cold War origins across a number of organizations. This paper eventually became his 1997 publication "Does Theory Travel? Area Studies and Cultural Studies".
"ILA", "ILA_CultureHistoryTheory" and "ILA_MEMOS" contain work related to Karp's home department at Emory, the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts. He directed the ILA from 1993-1996. Files in "ILA_MEMOS" come entirely from this period and
cover routine administrative matters with faculty and office staff. "ILA_CultureHistory Theory" contains files from 2000-2001 when the conceptual, intellectual and curricular structure of the ILA was under revision, as summarized in the letter to Dean Robert Paul included. The folder "ILA" contains miscellaneous files: comments to an ILA colleague on her book proposal, an unapproved proposal by another faculty member to develop a science program in the ILA, comments by Stan Katz on public scholarship initiatives begun in the ILA from an ILA external review, a memo to ILA graduate students concerning their required attendance at a programming series on public scholarship that Karp coordinated for the ILA, a To Do list about students and recommendation letters for colleagues that Karp had to do.
Subfolder "CSPS": Karp founded the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship (CSPS) within the ILA a year or so after moving to Emory. CSPS was the base from which Karp successfully applied for a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities residency program with three different theme years. Randy Packard directed the first year, Karp and Kratz codirected the second year, and Dana White and Rick Beard directed the third. After that program Karp and Kratz jointly developed a new proposal for Rockefeller with their South African colleagues and received support for the Institutions of Public Culture (IPC) program, which continued until around 2008, with support from Emory in the final years. The structure of CSPS as a center within the ILA was renegotiated around 2000 or so and CSPS moved out of the ILA and began to report directly to the dean as a freestanding center. At that time Karp and Kratz began to co-direct CSPS and they were seconded from their academic departments to run CSPS and the IPC program and develop associated programming and teaching. It was around this time also that they developed the Grant Writing Program, initially running workshops and forums for both graduate students and for faculty, but later dropping the faculty component (see folder on Grant Writing Workshop). CSPS was shut down by Emory along with a number of other interdisciplinary programs and centers during the financial crisis of 2008-2009. CSPS closed at the end of March 2009.
Material in this folder relates to administration and activities of CSPS during its existence. This includes budget memos, files on staff (annual review, position description, RIF), some annual reports. It also includes memos and notes concerning
CSPS-ILA relations, the terms of the change of structure and Karp and Kratz's secondments, as well as files related to a few workshops and speakers series they organized. Some files relate to the IPC program: lists of fellows, fellows obligations, fellows' reports. Other CSPS activities represented in the folder: a) Karp and Kratz were Emory's liaison to the national Imagining America program; b) for several years Karp and Kratz collaborated with the Smithsonian's Folklife program to offer summer fellowships for Emory graduate students in Washington DC; c) Karp and Kratz held regular biweekly seminar meetings as part of the IPC that students on the program took as a course and postdocs attended as a work-in-progress seminar, called South African Public Culture. ILA grad students for some years were required to fulfill a public scholarship requirement by attending a number of lectures, events, etc. drawn from CSPS activities that were organized under the rubric the Workshop in Public Scholarship. Karp administered this for the ILA. The folder also contains files related to two Emory-internal grant proposals Karp and Kratz developed--one for a temporary funding program called Collaborative Research in the Humanities grant program (CritH) and another for a short-lived funding program through the Institute of Developing Nations (IDN). They also developed a faculty seminar on Public Scholarship through the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence (CFDE) that they ran in Spring 2011 (NOT 2010 as in the files – it was postponed a year) with the CFDE director Laurie Patton and Emory faculty who applied to participate, including a couple who received fellowships for their projects. The folder contains several files related to this. The folder also contains a proposal that Karp was commenting on for colleagues at Indiana University who were applying for a Rockefeller Humanities residency grant in 2002, and a proposal to the Coca Cola Foundation that Karp and Kratz were advising the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute about and communication about a Rockefeller proposal and grant that they helped their colleagues in South Africa (L. Witz and C. Rassool) get for the museums and heritage program in Cape Town.
The subfolder "RF Proposal" contains files related to the Rockefeller Foundation grants, including proposals from 1996 and 1999, fellows' reports and annual reports for both programs, administrative correspondance with the provost and deans at Emory about the IPC proposal, documents in preparation for a site visit by Rockefeller that was done before the initial Humanities residency program. The folder also contains proposals written by Karp and Kratz's Cape Town colleagues for several programs and projects that they created, which served as material and background for their codeveloped projects (these are listed under the files with names Witz and Bunn). Karp also kept a copy of his paper on "Public Scholarship as a Vocation" here as a resource when working on proposals.
Collection Restrictions:
Recommendations that Karp wrote for his colleagues and students are restricted until 2061.
Access to the Ivan Karp papers requires an appointment.
Collection Citation:
Ivan Karp papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
This collection was processed with the support of a Wenner-Gren Foundation Historical Archives Program grant awarded to Corinne Kratz.
Whitehead, Henry P. (Prenton), 1917-2002 Search this
Extent:
1 Document (8 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches)
Type:
Archival materials
Documents
Brochures
Date:
1945
Collection Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
The Henry P. Whitehead collection is the physical property of the Anacostia Community Museum. Literary and copyright belong to the author/creator or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business resides with the Anacostia Community Museum. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archives.
Topic:
African American women -- Societies and clubs Search this
Genre/Form:
Brochures
Collection Citation:
Henry P. Whitehead collection, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Michael A. Watkins.
Whitehead, Henry P. (Prenton), 1917-2002 Search this
Extent:
1 Document (10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches)
Type:
Archival materials
Documents
Workbooks
Place:
Washington (D.C.)
Date:
November 13-15, 1958
Collection Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
The Henry P. Whitehead collection is the physical property of the Anacostia Community Museum. Literary and copyright belong to the author/creator or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business resides with the Anacostia Community Museum. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archives.
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) Search this
Collection Collector:
Whitehead, Henry P. (Prenton), 1917-2002 Search this
Extent:
1 Booklet (9 x 6 1/4 inches)
Container:
Box 158, Folder 15
Type:
Archival materials
Booklets
Concert programs
Date:
January 30, 1948
Collection Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
The Henry P. Whitehead collection is the physical property of the Anacostia Community Museum. Literary and copyright belong to the author/creator or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business resides with the Anacostia Community Museum. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archives.
Institute on Race Relations (Washington, D.C.) Search this
Collection Collector:
Whitehead, Henry P. (Prenton), 1917-2002 Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Place:
Washington, D.C. -- history
Date:
undated
Collection Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
The Henry P. Whitehead collection is the physical property of the Anacostia Community Museum. Literary and copyright belong to the author/creator or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business resides with the Anacostia Community Museum. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archives.
Whitehead, Henry P. (Prenton), 1917-2002 Search this
Extent:
39 Postcards
Container:
Box 132, Folder 3
Type:
Archival materials
Postcards
Date:
1946
Collection Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
The Henry P. Whitehead collection is the physical property of the Anacostia Community Museum. Literary and copyright belong to the author/creator or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business resides with the Anacostia Community Museum. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archives.
Collection Citation:
Henry P. Whitehead collection, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Michael A. Watkins.
BLACK EXPRESSIVE CULTURE NARRATIVE STG: The Disco Kings and Queens; Willie "Ashcan" Jones
Collection Creator:
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Search this
Extent:
1 Sound recording (sound tape reel, 7 inch reel, 1/4 inch tape)
Type:
Archival materials
Sound recordings
Date:
1984 July 8
Collection Restrictions:
Access by appointment only. Where a listening copy or viewing copy has been created, this is indicated in the respective inventory; additional materials may be accessible with sufficient advance notice and, in some cases, payment of a processing fee. Older papers are housed at a remote location and may require a minimum of three weeks' advance notice and payment of a retrieval fee. Certain formats such as multi-track audio recordings and EIAJ-1 videoreels (1/2 inch) may not be accessible. Contact the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections at 202-633-7322 or rinzlerarchives@si.edu for additional information.
Collection Rights:
Copyright and other restrictions may apply. Generally, materials created during a Festival are covered by a release signed by each participant permitting their use for personal and educational purposes; materials created as part of the fieldwork leading to a Festival may be more restricted. We permit and encourage such personal and educational use of those materials provided digitally here, without special permissions. Use of any materials for publication, commercial use, or distribution requires a license from the Archives. Licensing fees may apply in addition to any processing fees.
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1984 Festival of American Folklife, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
Patterson, Frederick D. (Frederick Douglass), 1901-1988 Search this
Extent:
18.66 Linear feet (21 boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Diplomas
Notebooks
Articles
Manuscripts
Photographic prints
Ephemera
Scrapbooks
Newsletters
Awards
Photographs
Invitations
Legal documents
Programs
Correspondence
Clippings
Date:
1882 - 1988
Summary:
President of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (later Tukegee Institute; now Tuskegee University) from 1935 - 1953 and founder of the United Negro College Fund (1944). Patterson was born on October 10, 1901. Orphaned at age two, he was raised by his eldest sister, Wilhelmina (Bess), a school teacher in Texas. He studied at Iowa State College, where he received a doctorate in veterinary medicine in 1923 and a master of science degree in 1927. Five years later, he was awarded a second doctorate degree from Cornell University. Patterson taught veterinary science for four years at Virginia State College, where he was also Director of Agriculture. His tenure at Tuskegee University started in 1928 and spanned almost 25 years, first as head of the veterinary division, then as the director of the School of Agriculture and finally as Tuskegee's third president. He married Catherine Elizabeth Moton, daughter of Tuskegee University's second president, Dr. Robert R. Moton. Patterson also founded the School of Veterinary Medicine at Tuskegee in 1944, the same year he founded the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). The UNCF continues today as a critical source of annual income for a consortium of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tuskegee University among them.
Scope and Content note:
The Frederick Douglass Patterson Collection comprises 18.66 linear feet of correspondence, manuscripts, research material, published writings, photographs, audiovisual material, scrapbooks, diplomas, awards, and other materials chronicling the personal life and professional career of Frederick D. Patterson.
The collection is comprised of glimpses into the life of Dr. Patterson. The little correspondece that survived is located in Series 2: Career, Series 3: Correspondence, and Series 4: Organizations. Some of the correspondence takes the form of congratulatory notes from 1953 during Patterson's transfer from Tuskegee Institute to the Phelps-Stokes Fund, located in Series 2. There is also a personal note sent to Patterson's wife, Catherine Patterson, from George Washington Carver in which he describes peanut oil as a good massage oil.
Arrangement note:
The collection is arranged by series and chronologically therein:
1. Biography: This series provides insight into Patterson's family life through primary documents. It is comprised of family wills, insurance policies, and his autobiography. Sub-series are arranged alphabetically by title.
2. Career: This series contains materials from Patterson's long professional career in the field of higher education, including his tenure as present of both the Tuskegee Institute and the Phelps-Stokes Fund. Sub-series are arranged chronologically.
3. Correspondence: This series contains letters sent to Patterson (and his wife) of a personal and professional nature. Several letters relate to Patterson's personal business "Signs and Services," which was a small billboard advertising company. There are also letters from George Washington Carver. The series is arranged chronologically.
4. Organizations: This series contains material from the various foundations Patterson founded and to which he belonged, including the R.R. Moton Fund and the College Endowment Funding Plan. He is especially noted for developing the United Negro College Fund. The series is organized alphabetically by sub-series title.
5. Honors: This series contains the awards, citations, and resolutions Patterson received during his lifetime. Folders are organized chronologically.
6. Subject Files: This series comprises articles, employee vitas, and other documents collected and organized by Patterson. Among the subjects in the files are higher education, Negroes, segregation, civil rights, and employee records. There is no key to this system.
7. Photographs: The Photograph series mostly documents Patterson's tenure at Tuskegee University. The series includes images of Patterson and various other notable figures during formal functions at the university. Noteworthy personalities include George Washington Carver, Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana.
8. Printed Materials: This series contains books, programs, and other documents from Patterson's personal collection. The series is organized alphabetically by author's last name.
Biographical note:
Frederick Douglass Patterson was born on October 10, 1901 to parents William and Mamie Brooks Patterson, in the Buena Vista Heights area of Anacostia in Washington, D.C. The youngest of six children, Patterson's parents died of tuberculosis before he reached the age of two years, his mother when he was eleven months old and his father a year later. Following his parents' death, the Patterson children were split up and sent to live in the homes of family and friends as stipulated in his father's last will and testament until he was seven years old, Patterson lived in the Anacostia area with a family friend he called "Aunt Julia."
When he was seven years old, Patterson's older sister Bess (a recent graduate of the Washington Conservatory of Music) decided to seek employment in Texas and took him with her. Many of their parents' family still lived in the state, which allowed Patterson the opportunity to spend months with various aunts and uncles, while his sister taught music throughout the South. After completing eighth grade, Patterson joined his sister at the Prairie View Normal School, where she taught music and directed the choir. Patterson attended the school for four years, during which time he developed an interest in veterinary medicine.
In 1920, Patterson enrolled at Iowa State College as a veterinary student. He graduated in 1923 and moved to Columbus, Ohio, to join his brother John. While there, he took the Ohio State Board exam for Veterinary Medicine. Although he became certified, a lack of money prevented him from practicing. Four years later he received a teaching offer from Virginia State College (VSC) in Petersburg, Virginia, which afforded him the opportunity to work within his profession. While at VSC Patterson took a leave of absence and returned to Iowa, in 1926, to pursue a Master's degree in veterinary medicine.
After five years at VSC, the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute offered Patterson a position running the veterinarian hospital and teaching veterinary science. He moved to Tuskegee, Alabama in 1928. While at Tuskegee, Patterson decided to pursue a Ph.D. in bacteriology at Cornell University. During his year and a half leave from Tuskegee, Patterson completed his coursework and wrote his dissertation. After he returned to Tuskegee, a serial killer murdered three people, including the head of the Department of Agriculture. Confronted with this tragedy, school officials quickly offered Patterson the vacant position, which he accepted in 1934.
Robert R. Moton, second president of Tuskegee, retired in 1935 and a search was soon commenced to find the next president for the school. Patterson, in the meantime, pursued more personal matters when he met and married Catherine Moton (with whom he would have a son) in June 1935. By then he was already hired to take his now, father-in-law's, position as President of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.
As president of Tuskegee, Patterson made several changes and many additions to the institution. He increased faculty housing for professors; integrated the Board of Trustees' meeting meals and eventually arranged for both balck and white members to eat at one table; shortened the name to Tuskegee Institute; and established the Department of Commercial Dietetics in 1935, the veterinary medicine program in 1942, and the engineering program in 1948. While many considered Patterson's changes important achievements, it was his development of the Commercial/Military Aviation Program that would bring the school distinction and fame.
Patterson first attempted to develop the aviation program in 1939. The government fostered the development of such programs by subsiding the expenses. All a university had to do was present able-bodied instructors and willing pupils. Tuskegee had both. By 1940 the United States Air Force was interested in integrating its forces. In order to do this they needed trained black pilots. Tuskegee was the perfect place to provide the needed pilots since the school was situated in an all-black environment where students could concentrate on learning to fly without having to worry about racist reactions from their fellow classmates. To accommodate this program, the Tuskegee Army Air Base was created. Tuskegee pilots flew missions throughout World War II and would later be recognized for their bravery.
An important part of Patterson's duties as president was fund-raising. By 1943 he found it increasingly difficult to find ample sources of funds to run the Institute. He came to realize Tuskegee and similar black colleges would benefit if they pooled their funding resources and asked for larger amounts of money from philanthropic individuals and organizations as a collective. Working together would cut fund-raising expenses; this in turn would leave more money for the colleges to use as they wished. Patterson named his new creation the United Negro College Fund (UNCF); it would go on to raise millions of dollars for the nation's historically black colleges. He served as the first president of the organization.
During the fifteen years Patterson served as president of Tuskegee, he hosted many famous personalities, including W.E.B. DuBois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Eleanor Roosevelt, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson, Pearl Buck, and Andre Segovia. He developed a lasting relationship with George Washington Carver, who had been a professor with Tuskegee since the days of Booker T. Washington.
Patterson served on many organizational boards in addition to his educational work. His involvement with the Phelps-Stokes Fund would ultimately lead Patterson to leave his beloved Tuskegee Institute to apply his educational philosophies on a broader scale. In 1953 the Fund approached Patterson and offered him the presidency of the organization. Patterson, feeling he needed a change, accepted the offer. He resigned from Tuskegee that same year and moved to New York to begin a new life.
Organized in 1911, the Phelps-Stokes Fund supported African, African American, and Native American education and worked on solving housing problems in New York City. Patterson's interest in African education began before he joined Phelps-Stokes. In 1950 the World Bank/International Bank Commission to Nigeria hired him to "evaluate the resources of Nigeria and…to study the educational programs and the organizational structure of advanced education." Through his work with the Fund he continued his efforts to improve the educational opportunities for Africans and help them move beyond colonialism. Patterson traveled extensively throughout the west coast of Africa in support of these goals.
In addition to forming the UNCF, Patterson created two other organizations (the Robert R. Moton Institute and the College Endowment Funding Plan), during the mid 1960s and 1970s. Each was designed to improve funding efforts for historically black colleges. The Robert R. Moton institute began as an off-shoot of the Phelps-Stokes as a site for conferences to address the Fund's primary concerns. Patterson's idea for the Institute came from a desire to put to use a piece of property inherited after Moton's death. Empathy with the frustrations of college presidents regarding the restricted funding for institutional expenses led Patterson to create the College Endowment Funding Plan. The Endowment was designed to alleviate this situation by providing matching funds to eligible colleges. The Endowment made its first payment in 1978. Unfortunately, by the 1980s, the Moton Institute lost most of its government funding due to federal cutbacks. This resulted in reductions to the Institute's programming.
It was not until Patterson was well into his eighties that he began to retire from his life of public service. On June 23, 1987, President Ronald Reagan presented Dr. Patterson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest possible honor that can be bestowed upon a civilian, for his service in higher education and his role in creating funding sources for the nation's historically black colleges. A year later Frederick Douglass Patterson died at the age of eighty-seven.
Honorary Degrees
undated -- Xavier University
1941 -- Virginia State College
1941 -- Wilberforce University
1953 -- Morehouse College
1956 -- Tuskegee Institute
1961 -- New York University
1966 -- Edward Waters College
1967 -- Atlanta University
1969 -- Franklin and Marshall College
1970 -- Virginia Union University
1975 -- Bishop College
1977 -- St. Augustine's College
1982 -- Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
1984 -- Stillman College
1985 -- Payne College
Distinctions
undated -- Association for the Study of Negro Life and History Carter
undated -- The Southern Education Foundation, Inc. Distinguished Service Citation
undated -- The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and Texas Association of Developing Colleges Annual Leadership Awards
1950 -- Christian Education department, African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Inc. Citation for Distinguished Service
1953 -- Bethune-Cookman College, the Mary McLeod Bethune Medallion
1953 -- John A. Andrew Clinical Society at Tuskegee Institute, Citation for Distinguished Service in the Cause of Humanity
1953 -- Tuskegee Institute, Certificate of Appreciation for 25 Years of Service
1957 -- Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. Beta Lamda Sigma Chapter, Bigger and Better Business Award
1960 -- National Alumni Council of the UNCF, Inc. Award
1963 -- National Business League, Booker T. Washington Award
1965 -- Booker T. Washington Business Association, Certificate of Acknowledgement
1970 -- Moton Conference Center Award
1970 -- Tuskegee National Alumni Association, R.R. Moton Award
1972 -- American College Public Relations Association, 1972 Award for Distinguished Service to Higher Education
1972 -- UNCF F.D. Patterson 71st Birthday Award
1975 -- National Business League, Booker T. Washington Symbol of Service Award
1976 -- Phelps-Stokes Fund, Continuous Creative and Courageous Leadership in the Cause of Higher Education for Blacks
1977 -- Yale Alumni Associates of Afro-America, Distinguished Service Award
1979 -- Alpha Phi Alpha Education Foundation Inc., Distinguished Educator Award
1979 -- Tuskegee Institute Alumni Association Philadelphia Charter Award
1980 -- The Iowa State University Alumni Association, Distinguished Achievement Citation
1980 -- Gary Branch NAACP Life Membership Fight for Freedom Dinner 1980, Roy Wilkins Award
1980 -- State of Alabama Certificate of Appreciation
1982 -- St. Luke's United Methodist Church Achievement Award
1983 -- Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., Distinguished Service Award
1984 -- Booker T. Washington Foundation, Booker T. Washington Distinguished Service Award
1984 -- The Ohio State University Office of Minority Affairs, Distinguished Humanitarian and Service Award
1985 -- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc, Eta Zeta Lamda Chapter Civic Award
1985 -- United States, Private Sector Initiative Commendation
1987 -- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc of New York State, Founders Day Award
1987 -- Presidential Medal of Freedom
1987 -- Brag Business Achievement Award
1987 -- Phelps-Stokes Fund, Aggrey Medal
Public Service
1941-1971 -- Southern Educational Foundation, Inc., Board Member
1943-1988 -- United Negro College Fund, Founder, President, and Member
1960s-1988 -- Robert R. Moton Memorial Institute, Founder
1970s-1988 -- The College Endowment Funding Plan, Founder
undated -- American National Red Cross, Board of Governors Member
undated -- Boys Scouts of America, National Council Member
undated -- Citizens Committee for the Hoover Report on Reorganization of Federal Government, Board Member
undated -- Institute of International Education, Advisory committee Member
undated -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Life Member
undated -- National Business League, President and Board Member
undated -- National Urban League, National Committee Member
undated -- Phelps-Stokes Fund, Board of Trustees Member
undated -- President's Commission on Higher Education for Negroes
undated -- Southern Regional Education, Board of Control Member
Related Materials:
Additional biographical materials in the Dale/Patterson Collection of the Anacostia Community Museum Archives.
This collection contains artifacts catalogued in the ACM Objects Collection.
Provenance:
The Frederick Douglass Patterson papers were donated to the Anacostia Community Museum in 2001 by Frederick Douglass Patterson, Jr.
Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Rights:
The Frederick Douglass Patterson papers are the physical property of the Anacostia Community Museum. Literary and copyright belong to the author/creator or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business resides with the Anacostia Community Museum. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archives.
Topic:
Universities and colleges -- Administration Search this
African Americans -- Education (Higher) Search this
African American universities and colleges Search this
Genre/Form:
Diplomas
Notebooks
Articles
Manuscripts
Photographic prints
Ephemera
Scrapbooks
Newsletters
Awards
Photographs
Invitations
Legal documents
Programs
Correspondence
Clippings
Citation:
Frederick Douglass Patterson papers, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Frederick Douglass Patterson, Jr.
-Paul Devitt, "Development, democracy and distribution: the importance of, and problems arising from social, cultural, socio-ecological and psychological factors in development," paper for Institute for Social Research, University of Natal conference "Towards comprehensive development in Zululand," 1972 (mimeograph)
-English Speaking Academy of Southern Africa, Newsletter, 1974 June (mimeographed booklet)
-H.A. Fosbrooke, "An assessment of the importance of institutions and institutional framework in development," paper for Institute for Social Research, University of Natal conference "Towards comprehensive development in Zululand," 1972 (mimeograph)
-Ellen Hellman, The impact of city life on Africans, The Institute for the Study of Man in Africa, 1963 (bound mimeograph)
-__________, "Soweto: Johannesburg's African city," address given on 1967 April 13 to the [South African Institute of Race Relations] Natal region in Durban
-P.D. Hey, The rise of the Natal Indian elite, circa 1961 (printed booklet)
-Muriel Horrell, African education: some origins and development until 1953, 1963 (mimeographed booklet)
-E.G. Malherbe, "Some figures about the position of the English language in South Africa" (mimeograph)
-__________, "Bilingualism and biculturalism in Canada and South Africa," talk for South African Institute of International Affairs, 1968 (mimeograph)
-__________, "Bilingualism and education," inaugural address as principal and vice chancellor, University of Natal, 1960 August 20 (mimeograph)
Collection Restrictions:
The Ruth Landes papers are open for research. The nitrate negatives in this collection have been separated from the collection and stored offsite. Access to nitrate negatives is restricted due to preservation concerns.
Access to the Ruth Landes papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Ruth Landes papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
The revision of this finding aid and digitization of portions of the collection were made possible through the financial support of the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund.
