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The Detroit Tribune
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan
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At Johnson C. Smith University's Third Annual Public Relations Institute, Dr. F. D. Patterson called Negro colleges 'islands of democracy' in the racially unequal South, emphasizing their role in uniting diverse people to solve human relations issues.
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United Negro College Fund-type colleges were called "islands of democracy" in a southland which is not friendly to the concept of equality across racial lines at the Third Annual Public Relations Institute held at Johnson C. Smith University recently.
Dr. F. D. Patterson, President of the Phelps-Stokes Fund, founder of the United Negro College Fund and former president of Tuskegee Institute said that our colleges have been islands of democracy. "Rather than perpetuating segregation", he continued, "These colleges have been the instrumentalities of bringing together people of diverse background, and interests and racial identities" to work out "their common problems and effective solutions in the area of human relations."
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At the Third Annual Public Relations Institute, Dr. F. D. Patterson described United Negro College Fund-type colleges as 'islands of democracy' in the South, which is not friendly to racial equality. He stated that these colleges bring together people of diverse backgrounds, interests, and racial identities to work out common problems and solutions in human relations, rather than perpetuating segregation.