This series includes materials that document Philip Randolph Lee's career until his employment with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in 1963. It consists primarily of speeches and articles written by Lee during this period and is divided into three subseries: Speeches, Articles, and Miscellaneous. There is no separate correspondence subseries though correspondence dealing with specific speeches or events appear in many of the speech and miscellaneous folders. Besides his University of Minnesota Master's Thesis this series includes information on the Chowder and Marching Society, a group of physicians from all over California who were interested in group practice and other innovative healthcare concepts in the early 1960s, and materials documenting his interest and work in the field of rehabilitation. Also included is a diary from his 1961 Medical Ecology Mission to the Soviet Union.