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Frederick Douglass Patterson was an American academic administrator, the president of what is now Tuskegee University and founder of the United Negro College Fund. He was a 1987 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the 1988 recipient of the Spingarn Medal.[1]
Frederick Douglass Patterson was born in 1901. He was the son of William Ross Patterson and Mamie Brooks.[2] Before he was two years old, his parents both died of tuberculosis, so he was raised by his sister Bessie.[1]
In 1935, he married Catherine Elizabeth Moton.[2]
He passed away in 1988. [3]
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