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Frederick Douglass Patterson: 1901-1988
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The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
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July 1, 2008
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This issue of The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education is dedicated to the memory of
Frederick Douglass Patterson
1901-1988
Frederick Douglass Patterson established the United Negro College Fund in 1944. He was also the third president of Tuskegee University and founder of the Tuskegee School of Veterinary Medicine.
Born in Washington, D.C., before his second birthday Patterson had lost both of his parents to tuberculosis. He was raised by various aunts and uncles and eventually settled with his older sister, who taught school in Texas. After Patterson was voted "least likely to succeed" by his eighth-grade classmates, his sister enrolled him at a private high school operated by what is ...
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