Edmund Fitzgerald Fredericks

Edmund Fitzgerald Fredericks (1874 or 1875–1935) was a lawyer and educator from British Guiana.

Fredericks came to the United States to study to become a lawyer, settling in North Carolina in 1903.

[1] Fredericks, along with Theodore Theophilus Nichols started the Negro Progress Convention (NPC) in 1922.

[4] This organization was meant to assist Black people in British Guiana, and worldwide.

[5] Fredericks created trade schools for young people and established scholarships for students to study at university.