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Henry Carter Patterson papers
This collection contains some Xerox copies as well as the original correspondence of Henry C. Patterson, most of which is typescript. Topics include African American education in America (solicitations for funds for Lincoln University in Pennsylvania), Patterson's urgings for integration of th...
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| Collection: | Henry Carter Patterson Papers |
| Collection Number: | MSS004 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to finding aid |
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Materials Separated from the Resource: Photographs from this collection have been separated to PG054. Processing Information: Finding aid reformatted by Lindsey Schwartz, 2020. |
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0.6 Linear feet ; 2 boxes |
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This collection contains some Xerox copies as well as the original correspondence of Henry C. Patterson, most of which is typescript. Topics include African American education in America (solicitations for funds for Lincoln University in Pennsylvania), Patterson's urgings for integration of the United States Navy, and his support for John F. Kennedy's civil rights stand. Also featured is personal correspondence with Whittaker Chambers in which Patterson applauds Chambers's courage in the Alger Hiss Case. The Patterson Collection also houses correspondence with and about Vice-President Richard M. Nixon (1953-1960) regarding political matters, the future of the Republican Party, and the career of Harold Stassen. There is also correspondence between Patterson and Wendell Wilkie in which Patterson advises Wilkie on how to win the African American vote. Patterson's papers also include those generated during his years of service with the War Relocation Authority (1943-1948) in which he expresses his support for the compensation of Japanese Americans. Henry C. Patterson was a Quaker civil rights advocate and the first Philadelphia Director of the United Negro College Fund. The collection consists of correspondence related to such matters as Patterson's solicitation of funds for African American colleges, particularly Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania; integration of the armed forces; Republican Party politics and the Hiss-Chambers case. It also includes correspondence relating to Patterson's service as an official of the War Relocation Authority and support for compensation for relocated Japanese Americans through the 1970s. Prominent correspondents include Whittaker Chambers, John F. Kennedy, Frank Knox, H.L. Mencken, Richard Nixon, Harry S. Truman, Wendell Willkie, Walter Annenberg, Frank Boas, Walter White, William Allen White, Oswald Garrison Villard, Jackie Robinson, Clifford Pinchot, George Eastman, and Francis Biddle. |