Oral history interview with William J. Trent, Jr. [electronic resource], 1981

Scope and Contents

UNCF executive director. Background; racial discrimination in colleges; creation of United Negro College Fund, NYC, 1943; executive director, UNCF, 1944-1964: fund-raising, esp. Capital Funds campaigns, Brown vs. Bd. of Ed. decision, 1954, organization of regional Alumni conferences; Asst. Personnel Director, TIME, Inc. 1964-1975; Bennett College Development Office, 1975-present; reminiscences of Frederick D. Patterson, UNCF employees, campaign chairmen, volunteers, and member college presidents.

Subjects

• African Americans--Education.
• African Americans--Social conditions.
• Bennett College.
• Educational fund raising.
• Goodson, Martia, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Racial discrimination in education.
• Racial discrimination in employment.
• Time, inc.
• Trent, William J.--Interviews.
• United Negro College Fund.

Access Conditions

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