Frederick Douglass Moon

Frederick Douglass Moon (May 4, 1896 – December 16, 1975), also known as F. D. Moon, was an American educator, writer, and community leader. He was the first African American president of the Board of Education of Oklahoma City, and played a major role in the desegregation movement in the city. Moon was nicknamed, the "Dean of Black Educators".

Early life and education Frederick Douglass Moon was born on May 4, 1896, in Fallis, Oklahoma Territory, to African American parents Pollie Twiggs and Henry Clay Moon. Moon's writing rejected the idea of racial hierarchy and race-based pseudoscience, and work to gain civil rights. Around 400 people attended his funeral and service at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, including some 100 of his former students.

In 1954, the School Board of Oklahoma City dedicated the F. D. Moon Middle School (formerly known as the Old Douglass High School) in his honor at 600 North High Avenue, eventually it was renamed the Page-Woodson School; and in May 1975, the School Board of Oklahoma City dedicated the F. D. Moon Middle School (formerly known as the F. D. Moon Center, and the Kennedy School) in his honor at 1900 NE 13th Street.

He was a 1988 inductee of the Oklahoma African-American Hall of Fame, and the Oklahoma State Department of Education's Educators Hall of Fame. Moon is one of the many educators honored in 2022 within the Page Woodson Commemorative Plaza in Oklahoma City, part of a housing redevelopment of the Old Douglass High School campus at 600 North High Avenue.

In February 2023, the Oklahoma State Department of Education's Educators Hall of Fame had images removed by Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, this included the images of Moon, Francis Tuttle, and Joy Hofmeister. Walters claimed that the images were removed because the state does not want to highlight "union leaders and association heads".