{"value"=>"<p>This series encompasses Fredericks's vast professional experience.</p> <p>The Kellogg Company subseries contains correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, employee magazines, diaries, plans, clippings, and ephemera documenting Fredericks's career with the food manufacturing company of Battle Creek, Michigan, from his graduation from Purdue in 1938, until he entered the military in 1941; his return, in 1946 until he was recalled to the military in 1950; and his final period with the company from 1954 to his departure for the Ford Foundation in New York in 1956. Among the most significant materials in the subseries are correspondence, memoranda, and plans and specifications concerning the construction and initial phases of development of a cereal plant in Springs, South Africa, near Johannesburg, beginning in 1948; this event also spurred Fredericks's lifelong interest in African politics and culture. Fredericks also returned to South Africa in 1953-1954, while on terminal leave from the Air Force, to report back to Kellogg on operational problems with the plant that he helped construct in the late 1940s.</p> <p>The CIA/Africa trip files consist of correspondence with the CIA, Department of Defense, and Air Force; Air Force orders; travel documents; background material on various African countries; diaries and notes; and a final report about the Africa trip.</p> <p>The Ford Foundation I subseries (1956-1960) reflects Fredericks's ongoing interest in Africa, even though he did not have responsibility for African programs during this time. Included in this subseries is correspondence related to Fredericks's work in public affairs and overseas development. Also included are reports and papers, which consist primarily of printed material documenting the Ford Foundation's work in Africa and Southeast Asia, as well as international development programs more generally; most of the material was not written by Fredericks, but by a range of specialists, including foundation staff members such as Fred Burke, scholar James Coleman, and the economist and planning expert J. E. Slater. This subseries also consists of conference materials, such as programs, papers, and other printed material; travel documents, such as itineraries, briefing papers, and administrative records; proposals for grants and projects; and general files, including clippings, invitations, notes, and speeches.</p> <p>The State Department subseries consists of correspondence; program files for the Bureau of African Affairs, which include reports, press releases, briefing books, and memoranda, among others; various committee files; materials on other state agencies, such as the Agency for International Development and Bureau of Intelligence and Research; trip files; conference materials and papers; reports; writing by Fredericks; calendars and diaries; and printed matter (such as State Department publications and clippings).</p> <p>The Ford Foundation II subseries (1967-1973) contains correspondence of a general or administrative nature (such as requests for meetings or discussions of internal foundation policy) and correspondence with notable individuals, such as the journalist Patrick Keatley; Julius Nyerere (Tanzania); the journalist Colin Legum; and the South African mining executive and Urban Foundation founder Clive Mennell. Additionally, this subseries contains program files, arranged alphabetically by subject, documenting Fredericks's work on policy reviews in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and developing countries more generally. This material includes correspondence, notes and drafts of the reviewers' reports, and reports and correspondence pertaining to the foundation's grantmaking and research programs in the areas of urbanization, population studies, law, labor, education, and agricultural development. Other material covered in this subseries includes Board of Trustees meeting notes, memoranda related to the board, and quarterly status reports on foundation grants; correspondence with individual congressmen whose interests and committee assignments related to Africa, particularly those serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; notes and other materials related to the Foundation's attempt to cultivate and sustain relationships with members of Congress, to press for increased foreign aid, and intervene in recurring legislative debates about the tax-exempt status of foundations; and notes and correspondence related to Fredericks's political advisory activities, including his service on a task force on African affairs for the presidential campaign of Hubert H. Humphrey in 1967-1968. Country, subject, and organization files contain materials collected by Fredericks on countries, regions, and issues within his scope of responsibilities as head of the Middle East and Africa Program; they primarily contain printed material, such as newspaper and magazine clippings, papers and reports, newsletters, and leaflets, but also include correspondence with and notes on African leaders, American and European officials, journalists, and advocates involved in African affairs. Of note are correspondence files with Mangosuthu Buthelezi (leader of the KwaZulu Territorial Authority), Helen Suzman (Member of Parliament and anti-apartheid activist), and Fred van Wyk (Director of the South African Institute of Race Relations). Lastly, this subseries consists of travel files; conference materials; Fredericks' handwritten notes; general files, such as reports, budgets, invitations, notes, press releases, clippings, speeches, printed matter related to Ford Foundation administration as well as Fredericks's personal writings on African affairs; and documentation on Fredericks's extensive deliberations about his role at the foundation before resigning in 1973.</p> <p>The Chase Manhattan Bank (CMB) subseries covers the brief period from October 1973 through June 1974 when Fredericks was Director, and later, Vice President of International Relations, Africa and the Middle East, advising Chase on its policy in these areas. Frederick's files contain correspondence and memoranda, as well as drafts and final versions of papers and reports, either authored or edited by him, concerning the bank's strategies and policies on banking and investment in Africa and the Middle East. There are also itineraries, agendas, and invitations documenting two trips to Africa that he made with CMB officials including David Rockefeller and David Buckman, CMB Vice President and Africa Area Executive. Also included are Frederick's notes stating his reasons for taking the job with Chase; his decision to leave in less than a year to accept Henry Ford II's offer to work for the Ford Motor Company; and his appreciation of Rockefeller's vision, which led him to continue to work as a consultant for the bank with the title, Advisor on African and Middle Eastern Affairs, for twenty days a year, from July 1974 to June 1976.</p> <p>The Ford Motor Company files consist of diaries; printed matter (clippings about the company, especially related to South Africa, and publications by the company); international production files, divided alphabetically into countries which either had Ford plants or were in talks to develop plants; conference materials; reports and papers, mostly from other organizations and individuals; writing, including speeches and handwritten notes; and correspondence. The majority of the materials are related to Ford and South Africa; files cover the 1980 labor disputes between Ford South Africa (FSA) and its mostly Black work force, which led to walkouts, strikes, and other forms of resistance. These files also encompass Ford's Sullivan Principles framework, and they reflect the tension that existed between the corporate drive for profit and a corporation's role in enacting social change.</p> <p>The final subseries, Appointment as Assistant Secretary of African Affairs, includes notes, correspondence, and printed matter related to Fredericks's appointment for this position in 1977, and subsequent withdrawal of his acceptance due to injuries sustained in a car accident. The correspondence includes congratulatory and condelence letters.</p>"}