#OTD Apr 25, 1944: The United Negro College Fund is founded by Frederick Patterson, president of the Tuskegee Institute, and Mary McLeod Bethune, an adviser to the Franklin Roosevelt Administration. to provide funding to 27 HBCUs across the south.
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