Inventory of the George H. Esser Papers, 1949-2007
Collection Number 4887
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Collection Information
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Esser, George H.
- Title
- George H. Esser Papers, 1949-2007
- Call Number
- 4887
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
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- Items: About 91,000
- Linear Feet: 146.5
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Administrative Information
- Restrictions to Access
- This collection has restrictions to access. Please see details below or contact the Manuscripts Department for more information.
- Acquisitions Information
- Received from George H. Esser of Chapel Hill, N.C., in September 1997 (Acc. 97114), July 1999 (Acc. 98404), January 2000 (Acc. 98534), February 2000 (Acc. 98573), August 2000 (Acc. 98731), March 2006 (Acc. 100348), and January 2007 (Acc. 100572); and received from Rah Bickley in February 2007 (Acc. 100583).
- Processing Information
- Processed by: Adera Scheinker, Linda Sellars, Brian Kelsey, Roslyn Holdzkom, 1997-2000; and Margaret Dickson, 2007
- Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, January 2007
- Finding aid updated by: Margaret Dickson, March 2007
- Because additions have not been integrated into the original deposit of papers, researchers are advised to review all box descriptions for materials of interest.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the George H. Esser Papers #4887, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Chapel of the Cross (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
- Community development--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Community development--Southern States--History--20th century.
- Diaries.
- Economic development projects--North Carolina.
- Economic development projects--Southern States.
- Endowments--North Carolina.
- Endowments--Southern States.
- Episcopal Church--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Esser, George H.
- Esser, Mary Irene Strother Parker.
- Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
- Family--Virginia--Social life and customs.
- Ford Foundation.
- Harvard Law School--Students--Social life and customs.
- Joint Orange-Chatham Community Action, Inc.
- Local Initiatives Support Corporation.
- Monticello Association (Charlottesville, Va.)
- MDC, Inc.
- National Academy of Public Administration.
- North Carolina--Economic conditions.
- North Carolina--Race relations.
- North Carolina--Social conditions.
- North Carolina Community Development Initiative.
- North Carolina Fund.
- North Carolina Indian Cultural Center.
- Poverty--North Carolina.
- Poverty--Southern States.
- Rural development projects--North Carolina.
- Rural development projects--Southern States.
- Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
- Southern Regional Council.
- Southern States--Economic conditions.
- Southern States--Race relations.
- Southern States--Social conditions.
- United States. Army. Chemical Battalion, 89th.
- University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Institute of Government.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Institute of Government.
- Virginia Military Institute--Students--Social life and customs.
- Women civic leaders--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Chemical warfare.
Related Collections
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North Carolina Fund records (#4710) and Southern Growth Policies Board records (#4589) in the Southern Historical Collection,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Southern Regional Council records (#1-2973) in Davis Microforms, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Biographical Note
George Hyndman Esser Jr. was born in Norton, Va., in 1922. He received degrees from Virginia Military Institute and Harvard Law School. He was professor of public law and government at the Institute of Government, University of North Carolina, 1948-1963; executive director of the North Carolina Fund, 1963-1969; program officer for the South for the Ford Foundation; 1969-1972; and executive director of the Southern Regional Council, 1972-1976. Esser wrote and spoke widely on the topics of North Carolina government, economy, and education. Esser died in Chapel Hill, NC., on 5 November 2006.
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The collection includes correspondence, proposals, reports, speeches, minutes of meetings, articles, clippings, and other materials relating to civil rights advocate and a crusader against poverty George H. Esser's work with the Eastern North Carolina area of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (ENC-LISC); the Ford Foundation; the Southern Regional Council; the North Carolina Fund; the Episcopal Church; the North Carolina Indian Cultural Center; Joint Orange-Chatham Community Action, Inc. (JOCCA); the North Carolina Community Development Initiative; the National Academy of Public Administration; the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina; and other organizations. In addition to information about the organizations themselves, there is much information about the South, community development, rural development, poverty, race relations, and the work of foundations. Also included are files on activities of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation in other states and files of MDC, Inc., which was originally established in 1968 as the North Carolina Manpower Development Corporation and changed its name to MDC, Inc. in the mid-1970s when it became a national organization. Other materials in the collection include family correspondence and related items; materials relating to the life and work of George Esser's wife, Mary Irene Strother Parker Esser; materials relating to George Esser's education at the Virginia Military Institute and Harvard Law School, including a diary, 1946-1948; and materials relating to George Esser's involvement in World War II and the 89th Chemical Mortar Battalion.
Back to TopArrangement of Collection
Because additions have not been integrated into the original deposit of papers, researchers are advised to review all box descriptions for materials of interest.
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Original Deposit
Addition of July 1999
Addition of January and February 2000
Addition of August 2000
Addition of March 2006 and January 2007
Addition of February 2007
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Detailed Description of the Collection
Original Deposit.
About 13,000 items.
See also Box 34.
Box
1ENC-LISC Administrative, Planning, and Office, 1983-1986
Correspondence, meetings, reports, memos, budgets, and program plans for development of rural areas in West Virginia, the
Southeast, and the Mid-South Delta. Files of Esser, George Autry, David Dodson, and members of the New York LISC staff are
included.
ENC-LISC Administrative, Planning, and Office, 1986-1987
Box
3ENC-LISC Administrative, Planning, and Office, 1988-1995
Box
4National LISC general information
LISC files from Arkansas projects
Box
5North Carolina Organizations related to ENC-LISC from 1983-1990, A-N
National, Regional and Other States' Organizations arranged alphabetically. Includes many on which Esser served on the board
and major files from MDC, Inc.
North Carolina Organizations related to ENC-LISC from 1983-1990, N-Z
Box
7Organizations Requesting Assistance from ENC-LISC. Proposals Pending:
Agricultural Investment Fund/Soul City
Choanoke Area Development Association
Full Service Printing Company
Northeast North Carolina Rural Fund for Development
Northeastern Research and Development: Somerset Popcorn Company
Onslow County Minority Business Association
United Durham, Inc., Community Development Corporation
Overflow from Box 10
Papers of Rural Economic Development
Housing: National and LISC
Health: North Carolina
Health: National
Box
8ENC-LISC Funded Projects, A-R
Ahoskie Incubator Project
Capital Investment Loan Program: Community Development Fndn of Rocky Mount
Center for Women's Economic Alternatives
Dillard Building Project
Dillard Building Loans for Accu-Tax and Brewington
Foundation for Alternative Health Programs
Haliwa-Saponi Indians
Hyde and Beaufort Counties Nursing Homes
Land Loss Prevention Project
Legal Services of North Carolina
Farmville and Maxton
Training Grant
Wachovia Bank Community Reinvestment Act, East Winston
Winston Salem Babcock Grant
Medical Transportation Specialist, Inc.
Neuse River Development Authority
Basic Grant
Marketing Grant
Reynolds Foundation Proposal
Brewington Landscape
Datatrak Loan
Gibsim, Inc., Loan
Drs. Haye and Buffong
Johnny Ray Kinsey Loan
Amos Locklear Loan
Master Tax Accounting Service
Glenda Miller Loan
Pasquotank-Onslow Women's Health Center
Simpson's Crab House
North Central Housing Development Corp.
Northeastern North Carolina Rural Fund for Development
Northeastern Research and Development Group, Inc.
Northside Neighborhood Housing Council
REAL Enterprises
Box
9ENC-LISC Funded Projects, R-Z
Roanoke Amaranth Community Health Group
Rural Day Care Association of North Eastern North Carolina
Operating Funds
Feasibility Study
Resolving Loan Guarantee
Shepherd's Staff - Housing for Elderly
Sound and Print United
United Durham, Inc.
Waccamaw Siouan Development Association
Watermark Association of Artisans: North Carolina Rural Fund for Development
Wilson Community Improvement Association
Workers' Owned Sewing Company
WVSP Community Radio
Box
10Studies, Reports, Manuals, Evaluations for Rural Economic Development
ENC-LISC: Studies, manual, evaluation, conferences, papers, clippings
North Carolina: Education for economic development, poverty, economic development plans
National LISC: Conferences, studies, resource books, handbook, assessment
National and Regional Development: Not LISC but related reports on the South
See Box 7 for overflow
Fund Raising, 1984-1987
Donors, 1984-1985
Prospective Donors, 1984-1985
Donors and Prospective Donors, 1986-1987
Monitoring Reports, chronologically arranged
Box
12Community Development Study, A-K
Correspondence, Questionnaires, and Selection
Berea, Ky.: Mountain Association for Community Economic Development Corp.
Chattanooga, Tenn.: M. L. King Blvd. Community Development Corp.
Chattanooga, Tenn.: M. L. King Blvd. Community Development Corp. and background
Elizabeth City, N.C.: Watermark Association of Artisans; Northeastern Education and Development Foundation
Kansas City, Mo.: City Information
Kansas City, Mo.: Blue Hills Corp.
Kansas City, Mo.: Community Development Corp. of Kansas City
Kansas City, Mo.: Kansas City Neighborhood Alliance
Kansas City, Mo.: Neighborhood Housing Services of Kansas City, Inc.
Kansas City, Mo.: Westside Housing Organization
Box
13Community Development Study, L-Z
Lafayette, La.: Southern Cooperative Development Fund
Madison, Wisc.: South Madison Community Development Corporation
Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minn.: City Information
Includes Minnesota Center for Community Economic Development
Minneapolis, Minn.: Common Space
Minneapolis, Minn.: Project for Pride in Living, Inc.
Minneapolis, Minn.: West Bank Community Development, Corp.
Saint Paul, Minn.: North End Area Revitalization, Inc.
Saint Paul, Minn.: Women's Economic Development Corp.
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Additions.
Addition of July 1999 (Acc. 98404), 1958-1989.
About 20,000 items.
Ford Foundation, 1967-July 1969
Memos, notes, outlines, correspondence, papers from conferences on possible future Ford Foundation investment in North Carolina,
future work in the South, potential rural programs, and information on existing program
Several papers by Ray Marshall are in relevant planning and conference files.
Initial proposal for a National Rural Coalition
Initial bills to establish a North Carolina Department of Local or Community Affairs
File on creation of the L. Q. C. Lamar Society (out of which grew the Southern Growth Policies Board)
Papers from major conferences on black economic development (The American Assembly) and on economic development in the South
Box
15Ford Foundation, August 1969-March 1970
Continuing files on rural programs or potential programs
Information on the Tax Reform Act of 1969 along with the Ford Foundation's position on it
The first files on Esser's oversight of the Southern Regional Council and Voter Education Project
Budget papers and recommendations from Esser to the National Ford office
Major files of background information, analyses, memos, notes, ideas, and drafts of the Southern office's paper on the South
for the National Affairs Division of the Ford Foundation, as well as papers that contributed to developments at the Southern
Regional Council
Among these are papers and memos by Ray Marshall and two speeches by Vernon Jordan.
Box
16Ford Foundation, April 1970-December 1970
Meetings with TVA and the University of Tennessee
Papers written for major Conference on Public Administration and Neighborhood Control
Southern Regional Council Research Conference
Papers written about the North Carolina Fund by students in Thad Beyle's class in the University of North Carolina Department
of Political Science
Initial legislation to establish a National Rural Center
National Academy of Science paper on a National Rural Center
Reports on the Race Relations Information Center
Reports on meetings to establish the Southeast Council of Foundations
Initial papers on starting a North Carolina Center for the Study of Public Policy
Box
17Ford Foundation, December 1970-May 1971
Reports on Leadership Development Project, Public Administration Training, the Citizens Board of Inquiry into Health Services
for Americans, Evaluation of 50 State Legislatures
Major National Affairs Division retreat
Report on the consolidation of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County
National Affairs draft of its plan for Community Development emphasis
Testimony on the rural loan program and a speech on rural economic development by Geoffrey Faux
Report by the Citizens' Committee on Environmental Quality
Esser's trip to Europe in May 1971 to visit mid-career training institutes in several countries
Box
18Ford Foundation, April 1971-Late 1971
SRC special review committee report and new strategy
Memos on Ford's developing community and economic development strategies, and program related investments.
Terry Sanford speech
Dwayne Walls examination of the Committee of Southern Churchmen, Investment in A Man (Will Campbell)
Reports for a large Ford community development conference including the Foundation for Community Development
Initial papers of the SRC School Desegregation Project
Papers on the contemporary "revolution," public service employment, impact of citizen participation on public administration, urban development, the integrity of
student government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and professional education
Conference to establish Southern Regional Growth Board
Billy Barnes paper on Ford support for co-ops
Report on SRC's Community Organization Division
Rural development regional planning documents
Esser and Geoffrey Faux's idea memos
Proposed legislation
Reports on North Carolina coastal plain development
Ford's 1973 budget, program planning, and strategy
Large file of papers, memos, conference notes, and drafts leading up to the Southern office's major paper on the South
Papers are by Esser, Ray Marshall, Bryant George, David Heaps, Bill Grinker, Nathan Garrett, Lucy Watkins, and Dwayne Walls.
Final version of the Paper on the South, which went to the Ford Foundation's National Affairs Division as a demographic, analytical,
and strategic background paper to use in developing its Southern program
Box
19Ford Foundation, Late 1971-1976
Southern Regional Council, 1972-1976
Work with churches while at SRC
Charlotte's White Community Organization file
Purpose and rationale for a proposed Foundation for Rural Development
Papers on revenue sharing, Southern rural cooperatives, making democracy work in community organizations (Julian Griggs),
and memos for Howard Lee
File of clippings on Esser's becoming SRC Executive Director
Various transitional proposals and correspondence
Confidential file on MDC's work and potential future
File on a conference on universities and state governments
Back section of this file covers work that Esser did with various churches' social responsibility and community grant programs
from 1974 to 1976: the Southeastern Baptist Seminar, the Methodist Board of Missions, the National Episcopal Church's Community
Action and Human Development Sub-committee on Economic Development and its Community Action and Human Development Board (he
served on both), the Presbyterian Church's Task Force on World Hunger, and Canterbury House in Atlanta.
Box
20Southern Regional Council, 1964-1974
Rare 1944-1945 copy of South Today (Lillian Smith)
1964 special notebook on 20-year History (Leslie Dunbar)
Special report, "Fayette County, Tenn.: Tragedy and Confrontation" (Dwayne Walls)
Special review committee report on future plans and new strategy for SRC adopted 24 April 1971
Work of the Education Task Force
Manual: Organization, personnel policies, procedures, etc
Esser's administration and program structure memos and information
Executive Committee materials and minutes, June-September 1972
Internal memos and salary pay plan memos
Proposed budget, 1973
Task Force on Southern Rural Development
Workshop on a National Center for Rural Development
SRC's "Health Care in the South: A Statistical Profile."
Clippings, testimony, etc. on SRC publications
Major file of SRC's year-long work as technical consultant to the 1974 Commission on the Future of the South, Southern Growth
Policies Board
Includes Eva Galambos's "State and Local Taxes in the South, 1973" and the September 1974 draft of the Commission's report to SGPB.
Box
21Southern Regional Council, 1974-1975
Further folders on SRC's work with the Commission, including staff memos; correspondence; reports on Manpower, Housing, and
Growth Management; SRC's full report to the Commission; and a draft of the Commission's report to SGPB
These two files are important for the Commission and SRC's work and direction, but also for the influence the Commission and
SRC had on Jimmy Carter when he subsequently became president. He was chair of the Southern Governors then and attended almost
all of the Commission meetings.
Monthly reports, 1974
Task Force on Southern Rural Development
Proposal to establish Southern Voices
Other papers on a National Rural Center proposal
"The Nature and Importance of Southern Rural Development."
MDC's Advisory Panel and its rural and manpower demonstration proposal
Confidential file of reorganization and financial crisis
Proposal to the Ford Foundation
Audit report, 1975
Box
22Southern Regional Council, 1975-1977
SRC's Task Force on Southern Rural Development and its major conference
File includes maps of South developed at SRC on county-by-county incidence of poverty and percentage black.
Planning and reorganization memos
Miscellaneous publications and clippings
Includes "A Time for Accounting," a monitoring report by Brown, Coil, and Rose.
Esser speech on desegregation
Clippings, publications, etc
Program and budget for 1976
Esser's 1976 planning notebook
Spring 1976 Executive Committee meeting folder, with many national and Southern news clippings of SRC's work
Minutes, Executive Committee and annual meetings, 1972-1976
Atlanta University Comprehensive Plan and Board meeting
Esser was on Board and Executive Committee.
Confidential file on SRC's financial crisis and reorganization, and on subsequent planning memos
Includes some personal memos and correspondence.
Information on Task Force on Southern Rural Development final report
Related publications by other organizations
Box
23Southern Regional Council Reports and Publications, 1964-1977
Regular publications:
New South, January 1964-Fall 1973 (incomplete file)
South Today, May 1972-December 1973 (incomplete file)
Southern Voices, May-June 1974 to October-November 1974
Reports and special publications (arranged chronologically):
Watters, "Encounter with the Future."
Green, Jordan, Bridgeman, Brittain, "Black Belt Schools: Beyond Desegregation."
Cleghorn, "Radicalism: Southern Style."
Weltner, "John Willie Reed--An Epitaph."
SRC, Auditor's Report, 1971
SRC, et. al. "It's Not Over in the South: School Desegregation in Forty-three Southern Cities Eighteen Years After Brown."
SRC, Program for the 70s, November 1972
SRC, Auditor's Report, 1972
Egerton, "Promise of Progress: Memphis School Desegregation, 1972-1973."
Anderson and Morgan, "Comprehensive Health Care: A Southern View."
SRC, "Program and Budget for 1974."
SRC, "Program for the '70s."
Galambos, "State and Local Taxes in the South, 1973."
SRC, "The Student Pushout: Victim of Continued Resistance to Desegregation."
Fleming, "The Cost of Neglect, the Value of Equity: A Guidebook for School Finance Reform in the South."
SRC, Annual Report for 1973
SRC, Maps: Rural population as percentage of total, poor families as percentage of all, black population as percentage of
total
SRC, "Health Care in the South: A Statistical Profile."
Carter, "The Ten-State Nutrition Survey: An Analysis."
SRC, 30th Annual Meeting, Background of 30 years
SRC, Program and Budget for 1975
Maclachlan, "The Other Twenty Percent: A Statistical Analysis of Poverty in the South."
Tucker and Lee, "The Distribution of Southern Black Population."
SRC, "Race Relations Law Index, 1973-1974."
SRC, 1974 Annual Report
SRC, Southern Governmental Monitoring Project, Intern materials, summer 1975
Plesser and Petkas, Southern Governmental Monitoring Project, "Government in the Sunshine"
Reports on Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Marshal, Milne, and Vrooman, "The Job Ahead: Manpower Policies in the South."
SRC, Program and Budget for 1976
SRC, Brochures
SRC, "Unemployment in a South in Recession: A Special Report."
Egerton, "School Desegregation: A Report Card from the South."
SRC 1975 Annual Report
Mills and Bryan, "Testing ... Grouping: The New Segregation in Southern Schools?"
SRC, "Increasing the Options: A Report of the Task Force on Southern Rural Development."
Box
24Southern Regional Council, 1972-1976
Articles, background materials, speeches, SRC studies and publications gathered by Esser to aid in writing speeches. Arranged
alphabetically, but also dated.
Demographic materials
Foundation role speech by Vernon Jordan
Reports on discrimination in revenue sharing, health care, higher education, housing, educational testing and tracking, manpower,
and unemployment
Articles and book chapters by George Tindall, C. Vann Woodward, Ray Marshall, James M. Pierce, C. E. Bishop, Lynn Daft, Geoffrey
Faux, the Race Relations Reporter, and Luther Tweeten on Southern agriculture, the Southern farmer, rural economic development, small farmers, rural poverty,
rural land loss by blacks, the status and prospects for small and black farmers, and the economic outlook for Southern agriculture
Information on the rural poor, poverty, prisons, revenue sharing
Articles and clippings on school integration, busing, discrimination in suspensions and expulsions in the South and elsewhere
Includes a piece on busing by John Egerton).
General articles on the South
Survey of problems of the poor and the black
Taxes
Box
25Speeches, 1963-July 1968
Speeches cover a wide variety of topics and occasions, from local to national. Read chronologically, the provide a revealing
history of the North Carolina Fund and related local and national events. Includes a list of speeches in the front and copies
of speeches by date, title, and place. Most are in final form, a few in outline or draft form, and a few in published form
(as reprints). Press conference statements and testimony before Congressional committees are included.
Box
26Speeches, July 1968-1975
Continuation of Box 25. Also contains a file of speeches made by others outside the Fund on related topics from 1963 to 1970,
arranged chronologically.
Box
27North Carolina Fund, 1963-1965
This box and the next four boxes contain documents from Esser's office files, including basic Fund materials, meeting minutes,
Ford Foundation meetings, progress reports, reports on completing objectives in the phase-out, and information on the new
organizations starting up-Foundation for Community Development (FCD), Low-Income Housing Development Corporation (LIHDC),
MDC (originally Manpower Development Corporation), United Organizations for Community Improvement (UOCI), and the People's
Program on Poverty (PPOP). Many of the Community Action Agencies' last proposals are here, and ending reports on the Learning
Institute of North Carolina (LINC) and the Comprehensive School Improvement Project (CSIP).
By-laws; articles of incorporation
Initial proposal to the Ford Foundation
Newspaper clippings, 1963-1964
Grant letters
Program descriptions
Esser's correspondence in the formative phases and later with John Ehle, Lester Nelson, Henry Saltzman, Paul Ylvisaker, Cliff
Campbell, John Scanlon, S. M. Miller, Tom Pearsall, and Paul Sharpe
Board and Executive Committee minutes
Fund's Program Guide and Advisory Letters 1, 2, 3, and 4
December 1965 program grant requests
Box
28North Carolina Fund, 1965-1967
Manpower training manual
Volunteers newsletter
Board and Executive Committee minutes notebooks
Miscellaneous clippings, notes, drafts, and correspondence
Summary of the statewide meeting on school desegregation in March 1966
1966 Annual Review Advance Materials
Manpower and Economic Development Subcommittee, "The Economic Situation of the Tenant Farmer in North Carolina."
Terry Sanford's 1966 report to McGeorge Bundy at the Ford Foundation
Esser's Fund organization memo in September 1966, including the statement of objectives
Revision of Advisory Letter #3
Minutes from Board meeting and Ford Foundation Review Team in November 1966
Review Team report
Papers and notes from a major national conference on rural poverty in early 1967
Tape of Esser's meeting at the Choanoke Area Development Association prior to PPOP proposal
"Perspectives: Poverty, Community Action, and the North Carolina Fund."
"Recommendations Concerning the Future of the North Carolina Fund and its Functions."
Box
29North Carolina Fund, 1967-1968
Proposal for a Manpower Development Corporation in North Carolina and Steering Committee meeting
Esser's speech at International City Managers Association
Review of North Carolina Comprehensive School Improvement Project
Board and Executive Committee minutes
First report of the Winston-Salem Police Department's Community Service Unit
Clippings, correspondence, and meetings relating to Congressmen Fountain and Jones, PPOP, Rocky Mount, and Martin County
Howard Fuller's speech in Williamston
"Food Prices in North Carolina."
Memos and notes on staff meetings
Final report on Youth Educational Services
Notes on a conference on the role of philanthropic funds in the South
Major conference on children
Board meeting minutes
Card file of all Fund, CAPs, other agencies, and related activities, by date and action
Provides a good summary of the activity during 1967 and moving toward phase-out.
"Community Action in North Carolina, Overview: Study of the Community Action Process."
Notes, ideas, meetings on a new agency in North Carolina
Executive Committee minutes
Draft agenda for Ford Foundation visit
Ford Foundation visit and letter to Sviridoff on North Carolina Fund experience in relation to further Ford commitment in
the South
Phaseout of Fund: Reasons for
Transition period: Correspondence and clippings
Confidential memo
Flowers, "Education in Rural Dixie and Rural America."
Board Meeting minutes
Mailing lists for the special North Carolina Fund packet
Box
30North Carolina Fund, 1968
Flowers, "A Historical Review of the North Carolina Comprehensive School Improvement Project, 1963-1967."
Education Task Force meetings
Executive Committee minutes
"North Carolina's Present and Future Poor."
"The Tenant Farmer in a Rural Manpower Program."
Darity, "Report on an Analysis of Community Development in Some Selected Communities in North Carolina."
Includes comparison of black leadership 1964-1965 and 1968.
Budget papers; archives papers
Fund publications list
Memo to Sviridoff on immediate future of North Carolina Fund and South
Includes draft outline for a new agency in North Carolina.
Board and Executive Committee meeting minutes
Includes a of where former staff members were then working.
Ernest Eppley, "Community Planning for Human Resource Development."
Draft of "Narrative History of the North Carolina Fund, 1963-1968."
Clippings
Draft of Board's "Final Report to the People of North Carolina."
Materials used in writing final report
Box
31North Carolina Fund, 1969-1989
Proofs, North Carolina Fund Narrative History
Reports, budgets, progress on Foundation for Community Development, 1967-1969
J. C. Brown, confidential correspondence
Chronology of Events, 1962-1969, and Fact Sheet on the North Carolina Fund
Clippings: Esser joins Ford Foundation, 1969
Roger Wilkins's visit, 8 April 1969 (Ford staff)
Michael Brooks, "Some Reflections on the Role of Research in Large-Scale Social Action Programs."
William Stewart term paper
Report from Howard Fuller on Virginia Community Development Organization
Packet sent to Howard Dressner at the Ford Foundation on Fund Quayle Poll and on monitoring of FCD and the summer interns
Packet presented to John Walsh by Howard Dressner on North Carolina Fund, Foundation for Community Development, Congressman
Gardner, etc
North Carolina Fund financial records at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library
Transcripts of tapes on Fund by Esser and unidentified person
Outlines, materials, and drafts of article for the Ford Foundation by Esser and Billy Barnes on North Carolina Fund, "Uphill in North Carolina."
Confidential report on the Foundation for Community Development to the Fund Board of Directors from the sealed files
Confidential report to Ford Foundation on FCD grant and Greensboro activities
Newsweek, "The Troubled American," 6 October 1969
Notes and drafts of Fund final report
Fortune magazine special issues on the South, the urban crisis, and the 1960s programs
Flowers, "The Community Action Movement in North Carolina."
Low Income Housing Development Corp. report, 1972
Experiment in Self-Reliance: 20 years later (October 1984) and Winston-Salem clippings
Emily Wilson correspondence on some major successors to the North Carolina Fund, October 1984
North Carolina Poverty Project, "Twenty-five Years of Community Action in North Carolina, 1964-1989."
Sampling of Fund publications
Sampling of evaluative reports
Includes reports on Operation Breakthrough, Youth Educational Services, black student involvement in community organizations,
and a Labor Department report on six mobility projects.
Box
32North Carolina Fund
Sampling of journals in which Esser had articles
Sampling of journals in which other staff and board members had articles
Related journals, a dissertation, several conference publications, a North Carolina vocational education proposal, and a housing
report
Two large notebooks of articles collected by Esser, 1962-1967
Box
33North Carolina Fund, mostly 1967-1968
Related articles, clippings, analyses, etc. Alphabetically arranged, but also dated. Materials covering a wide range of topics,
many of them concentrating on the problems of African Americans and poverty, and many of them written by the major thinkers
and activists of the day. Chief among them are many articles about the 1967 riots from the major news and analytical magazines
in the country. This set of files gives background to show some of the reasons relating to the end of the North Carolina Fund,
the strategies the Ford Foundation pursued, and what influenced Esser's thinking, as well as the ways the activities of the
Fund, the Ford Foundation, and Esser influenced the country.
Box
34Institute of Government, 1958-1963
Appalachian Development Foundation, 1982-1984
Local Initiatives Support Corp, 1983-1990
Third Century Project, 1985/
Community Development Corps Survey, 1987-1989
Pre-Fund speeches, reports, planning documents when Esser was at the Institute of Government
Esser's work with the Appalachian Development Foundation, 1982-1984
Reports, projects, proposals from the LISC period
See also Boxes 1-11.
Esser's work on the Third Century Project and the Aqueduct Conference on North Carolina Higher Education
Further files of the CDC survey
See also Boxes 12-13. Includes June 1989 draft of the final report on the survey, "Linking Business Development and Community Development: Lessons from Four Cities."
Box
35Episcopal Church, 1958-1964
Official statements on race, 1940-1958
Memorial tributes to Bishop Penick
Correspondence re creation of Committee on Structure and Organization, 1959-1960
Committee on Structure and Organization
Meetings, background information, reports, and recommendations, 1960-1961.
Miscellaneous papers, minutes, budgets, resolutions, clippings, and correspondence, 1960-1962
Committee on Structure and Organization memoranda, 1961-1962
Committee on Structure and Organization papers
Includes resolutions for May 1962 North Carolina Annual Diocesan Convention.
Church programs, 1961-1962
Christian Education, Christian Social Relations, Evangelism, Music.
Committee on Structure and Organization Questionnaire, 1962
Layman's Conference, 1962
Correspondence and General, 1961-1963
Includes Vestry Questionnaire.
Kanuga Adult Conference, 1963
Study of church institutions, 1963-1964
Two large folders on 1964 General convention
Esser attended as a delegate from North Carolina.
Box
36Episcopal Church, 1963-1985
Grants-in-aid policies, colleges and universities
Miscellaneous correspondence, publications, convention materials, Kanuga conference, and Chaplaincy Committee, 1960-1969
Executive Council and Long-Range Planning, 1962-1970
"Report of the Committee on Structure and Organization to the One Hundred and Forty-Sixth Annual Convention, Diocese of North
Carolina, May 1962."
Notes for church and diocesan history, 1976
Esser, "Rapid Growth-Financial Crisis, 1923-1941"
Includes sections on work with blacks, conference centers, institutions, and preparations for war.
Seven folders on Kanuga Conference Center: Board, Executive Committee, Board of Visitors, Planning Committee, 1976-1984
North Carolina 2000 Commission, 1983-1985
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Additions of January and February 2000 (Acc. 98534 and 98573), 1949-1998
About 25,000 items.
North Carolina Indian Cultural Center, 1982-1987
Box
38North Carolina Indian Cultural Center, 1988-1989
Box
39North Carolina Indian Cultural Center, 1990-1994
Box
40Joint Orange-Chatham Community Action (JOCCA), 1984-1986
Box
41Joint Orange-Chatham Community Action (JOCCA), 1987-1989
Box
42Joint Orange-Chatham Community Action (JOCCA), 1990-1998
Box
43National Child Welfare Leadership Center, 1981-1987
A program of the School of Social Work.
Box
44North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center, 1987-1995
Box
45ENC-LISC Area of Concentration, 1984-1990
General and Advisory
Local Programs, A-D
Housing
Box
46ENC-LISC
Local Programs, E-Z
Housing
Publications
Community Development Study
Box
47North Carolina Fund
Miscellaneous, 1968-1989
Final Dissolution Papers, 1972
Miscellaneous, 1994 and later
North Carolina Fund Project and conference, 1996
Box
48North Carolina Community Development Initiative, 1992-1994 and January-February 1995
Box
49North Carolina Community Development Initiative, March 1995-December 1996
Box
50North Carolina Community Development Initiative, 1997-1998
Box
51Sangamon State University Study, 1983-1984
Child Care Resources, Inc., 1984-1986
Third Century Project, 1984-1986
Fisheries Development Foundation, 1991-1995
Box
52MDC Consultancy Period, 1982-1988
Box
53National Academy of Public Administration
Operations, 1978-1980
Box
54National Academy of Public Administration
Operations, 1981-1982
Transition Assistance, 1982-1983
Box
55National Academy of Public Administration
Annual Reports
Miscellaneous, 1983-1997
Nominating Committee, 1983-1984/
Brownlow Committee
Committee on the Future
Eulogies
Box
56Philadelphia Study, 1977-1979
Ford Foundation, 1949-1977
North Carolina Fund, 1962-1967
Box
57National Child Welfare Leadership Development Center
Box
58Committee on Delivery of Legal Services, 1995-1998
Box
59Triangle Hospice, 1983-1986
Miscellaneous Consulting Projects, 1959-1989
Box
60Southern Regional Council
Institute of Government Studies
Box
61Institute of Goverment, 1949-1957
Box
62Institute of Goverment, 1957-1961
Box
63Institute of Goverment, 1962-1966
Publications
ENC-LISC
SRC
JOCCA
Box
64Philanthropy Award, 1995
Opening of North Carolina Fund Records, Southern Historical Collection, 1995
North Carolina Fund Conference, 1996
Box
65Rural and Community Economic Development, 1983-1995
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Addition of August 2000 (Acc. 98731), 1960-2000
About 8,000 items.
Miscellaneous correspondence and activities, 1973, 1977, 1982-1999 and undated
Calendars, 1982-1999
Third Century Project
Robinson, Drew
Clippings
North Carolina Bar Foundation
Chapel of the Cross
Inter-Faith Council
North Carolina Budget and Tax Center, 1997
Rural Center, 1991
Conference on Poverty, 1997
North Carolina Academy of Public Administration
Clark, Wayne
Diocese of North Carolina: Election of Suffragan Bishop
University Ministry Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 150th anniversary
Box
67Biography and publications, 1961
North Carolina Fund and transistion
Background materials for analysis of poverty in North Carolina, 1963-1964
Notes on structure, organization, etc., 1965-1967
National Association for Community Development Conference on Community Action, 1966
New Jersey Task Force on Demonstration Cities, 1966
"Barriers to Decision Making," 1966
Hartman, Tom: Speech to New Jersey School Development Council, 1967
Role of the Poor Committee, 1966
Governor's Advisory Committee on Low-Income Housing: Esser's appointment, 1966
Draft of Esser's memo to Nathan Garrett about interpretation of Section 4945(e) of the Tax Reform Act of 1969
Miscellaneous correspondence and notes, 1968
Foundation for Community Development, 1969
Episcopal Church/Diocese of North Carolina
Chapel of the Cross; Episcopal Campus Ministry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Committee on Structure and Organization, 1962-1963
Diocesan Convention, 1963
Long-range planning, 1963-1967
Long-range planning, 1964
Joint Urban Program, 1965
Colleges and Universities Division: Committee on Grants-in-aid: Executive Council
Forming Urban Coalitions, 1966
Joint Urban Executive Committee, 1966-1967
Joint Urban Committee: Correspondence, papers, etc., 1966-1967
Miscellaneous church correspondence, 1966-1968
Meetings, memos, etc., 1966-1968
Clergy Conference: Esser's paper on cities, 1968
Clergy Conference: Last day comments, 1968
Urban Crisis Program, 1968
General Convention: Special program, 1970
Inter-Religious Foundation for Community Development (IFCD)
Black Power Manifesto and Resolutions, 1967
Board meeting, 17 October 1967
Status report, 1968
Board meeting, 10 April 1968
Board meeting, 10-11 December 1968
Proposed Advisory Committee Meeting, 6-7 January 1969
Inter-Religious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), 1969-1971
Report of Concerns, 1971
Box
68Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations, 1984-1985
America Works, 1985
Proposed American Conservation Corps, 1987
Community Development of Beaufort-Hyde, Inc., 1992-1993
Berea College: Brushy Fork Institute, 1987-1988
Blumenthal Foundation: Wildacres, 1996
CARE, 1976
Center for Community Change, 1992
Center for Community Self-Help, 1982-1993
Center for Laws and Education, 1987-1988
Center for Safety in the Arts, 1990-1991
Chapel Hill Head Start, 1989
Chapel Hill Preservation Society: Evaluation/assessment, 1993
Children's Express, 1988-1996
Choanoke Area Development Association, 1992
Clark, Wayne, 1989
Coates, Albert: Commencement address, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1968
Cogswell: Famine Relief in Africa, 1987
"Community Health Centers: Engines for Economic Growth," National Association of Community Health Centers, 1994
Community Reinvestment Act, 1988
Conference on Poverty, 1998-1999
Council for Community Development: Board, 1988
Frank A. Daniels Institute for Human Services Policy Information, 1993
East Winston Community Development Corporation, 1990
Ellsworth, Scott (National Academy of Public Administration), 1981-1984
Empowerment, Inc., 1998-1998
Episcopal Church
General, 1983-1999
G. O. exam, 1976
Chapel of the Cross: Bylaws Committee, 1999
Kanuga Conference Center: Board of Visitors, 1970-1990
Chapel of the Cross: Social ministries, 1985-1995
Chapel of the Cross: Stewardship Committee; Advance Gifts Committee, 1985-1992
Florida State University: Public Policy Clinic, 1985
Ford Foundation, 1976-1998
Foundation for the Mid-South, 1990-1992
Georgia Legal Services Program: Georgia Poverty Journal, 1986
Frank Porter Graham Symposium: Alexander Heard remarks, 1980; Frank Porter Graham Conference on Human Rights: William Friday
speech, 1983
Harvard Law School: Reunion, etc., 1983
Health and Human Services: Facilities Initiative, 1992
Indian Cultural Center, 1983?
Institute for Southern Studies, 1987-1989
Institute of Government, 1983-1997
Institute of Government: Social Services Management Course dinner, 14 October 1986
Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs: Conference on Leadership and Southern Rural Poverty, 1992
JOCCA, 1989-1999
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Practice Sights Program, 1992
Kauffman Foundation: Whiting Basil: "Reweaving the Tattered Web: Socializing and Enculturating Our Children," 1993
Legal Services of North Carolina, Inc.: Empowerment Committee and other papers, 1987-1999
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
Lucy Watkins: Contract, 1986
1986, 1999
Rural Advisory Work Group, 1993
Low-Income Housing Development Corporation, 1988-1989
Box
69Afro-American Archives Project, 1989
Babcock Foundation, 1994-1996
Community Development of Beaufort-Hyde, Inc., 1993
Community Development of Beaufort-Hyde, Inc.: Mayfield, Judson: Letter, 1994
Cogswell-Robinson Proposal on Famine Relief in Africa, 1987-1989
Common Sense Foundation: Special Report on Welfare Planning, 1998
25 Years of Community Action in North Carolina, 1964-1989
Conference on Poverty (N.C.)
1990-1994
Data package, April 1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
Duke Program on North Carolina Fund Proposal to Ford Foundation, 1993
Companion Parish, 1981-1994
Ford Foundation, 1997-1998
Housing: McConnell, Dan: Letter, 20 July 1989
Initiative: Capital Consortium Plan, 1995-1997
Initiative: Board issues, 1996; board meeting, 1995; papers, 1997
Institute for the Transformation of Learning, Marquette University (Howard Fuller), 1997
Institute of Government, 1996-1997
JOCCA, 1988, 1995, 1996
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
Rural Proposal, 1992-1994, 1998
Rural, 1994, 1997-1998
MDC, 1992-1994, 1998
North Carolina Award, 1996
North Carolina Fund: Action Project: Fund exhibit, 1997
North Carolina Fund: Programs and policies, 25 November 1963
National Child Welfare Leadership Center, 1989
Public Works Oral History: Interview with Donald C. Stone, October 1992
Reynolds Foundation, 1998
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: School of Social Work: Board of Trustees, 1997
SEEDCO (Economic Development), 1998
Southern Growth Policies Board, 1990
Southern Regional Council: Southern Changes, 1995-1998
Watermark Association of Artisans (former LISC grantee), 1998
Wilson Community Improvement, Inc. (CDC), 1998
Rural Economic Development, 1977-1995
Rural Development Act: National Academy of Public Administration (Esser)
Letter and panel report to William Nagle, USDA Rural Development Service, September 1977
White House Economic Policy Working Group on Rural Development, 1990
Reynolds Foundation: Rural economic development correspondence and grants list, 1991
National Association of Community Development Loan Funds, 1991
National Association of Community Development Corporations, 1991
North Carolina Community Economic Development Network, 1991
North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center, 1991-1992, 1998
North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center: Minority Economic Development Advisory Center, 1993-1994
United States Rural Development Administration, 1992
Center for Community Self-Help, January 1994
Watermark, Inc., August 1994
Community Reinvestment Act: Testimony, 1995
Newspaper clippings, 1996-1998
Box
70Municipal Clerks' Education Foundation
1990
1991
1992
1993
National Academy of Public Administration
Standards
Florida Department of Human Resources panel materials, 1977
Conference on the Role of American Government, 27-28 June 1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
Nomination of William Winter, 2 July 1987
Correspondence, 1988
Obituaries: Materials on Elizabeth Koontz, August 1989
1989
1990
1991
Eulogies, panels, committees, 1993
1994
Tribute to Donald Stone, 1995?
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
Box
71Joint Urban Advisory Committee
Meetings, minutes, memos, 1966
Correspondence, 1966-1967
Episcopal Church: Executive Council: Correspondence: Special program, 1966-1967
Inter-Religious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO)
Correspondence, 1967
Financial Development Committee, board meetings, other committees, 1968
Correspondence, proposals, brochures, memos, 1968
General, 1969
Board memos, meetings, correspondence, Esser's evaluation, 1969
Report, April 1970
Notes on Urban Affairs, 3 September 1968
National Black Economic Development Conference: Black Manifesto, 1969
Includes religious bodies' responses
Episcopal Church
National Industrial Mission, 1968-1969
Executive Council: Correspondence, proposals, etc., 1969
Esser's and Wright's letters; General; conventions; special programs, 1969
Diocese of North Carolina, 1969
Includes speech by Bishop Thomas Wright
Committee on Structure and Organization, 1961-1962
Kanuga Conference Center: Board and Board of Visitors, 1978-1991
Box
72MDC
1976-1999
1968-1999
Musgrove Conference, September 1987
National Association of State Development Agencies, 1986
National Child Welfare Leadership Center, 1983-1987
National Congress for Community Economic Development, 1989
National Survey of Public Leadership, 5 April 2000
National Association of Community Development Corporations, 1990
National Center for Nonprofits, 1992-1993
North Carolina Insight: "Economic Development in North Carolina," December 1997; North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research, 1988-1989
North Carolina Community Action Association, 1985-1989
North Carolina Council on Human Relations: Sit-in demonstrations, 1960
North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development: Community Development Council Roundtable, 1989
North Carolina Equity, Inc., 1992
North Carolina Fisheries Association, Inc., North Carolina Fisheries Development Foundation, 1987-1990, 1999
North Carolina Fund
1969
Chapter (draft) in Reynolds Foundation History by Emily Watson, August 1987
Termination information, 8 June 1990
Action Project, 1997
Alumni Reunion, 12 December 1996
North Carolina Health Care Coalition, 1988
North Carolina Poverty Project, 1986-1992
North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center
1989-1998
Minority Advisory Committee, 1992-1993, 1999
Orange County Board of Commissioners: 1992-1993 goals, objectives, and action plans, 1992
Penn Center, 1993-1999
People to People: Citizen Ambassador Program, 1994-1995
Philadelphia Civic Organization Survey: Esser reference letter, 1979
Greater Philadelphia First Corporation, 1983
Philanthropy Conference program, 19 May 1995; North Carolina Philanthropy Award to Esser
Public Allies, 1994
Recycling Child Care Funds (J. A. Tate Jr.), 11 May 1987
Reynolds Foundation, 1986-1993
Rosenberg, Julie: Comments on Rocky Mount school merger, 1987-1988
Rural Advancement Foundation International-U.S.A., 1999
Rural Development Leadership Network, 1985-1991
Rural Local Initiatives Support Corporation: Final Report, 1998
Rural Telecommunications Initiative; North Carolina Telecommunications Institute: Center for Community Self-Help, 1991
School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1988-1999
Southeastern Consortium for Minorities in Engineering: Charles Prejean, 1986
Southern Development Bancorporation: Arkansas, 1986
Southern Growth Policies Board: Evaluation, 3 September 1999
Southern Historical Collection, 1988-1993
Southern Regional Council, 1983-2000
"Tar Heel of the Week": 35th anniversary celebration, 1985
Tate Chair: School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1990
Triangle Hospice, Inc., 1981-1985
WUNC-TV, 26 August 1997
Urban Studies Conference, University of Connecticut, April 1963
Vanderbilt University: Community Economic Development: Institute for Public Policy Studies, May 1989
Watermark Association of Artisans, 1990-1999
Wilson Community Improvement Association, Inc., 1998
Miscellaneous clippings
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Addition of March 2006 and January 2007 (Acc. 100348, 100572).
About 25,000 items.
Box
73Monticello Association notes and correspondence, 1950s-1990s
Box
74Monticello Association Membership Advisory Committee, 1999-2001
Minutes, notes, reports, email correspondence, and supporting materials of the committee formed to settle the question of
who may be a member of the Monticello Association and/or buried near Thomas Jefferson. Includes the record of the events surrounding
the application of descendants of Sally Hemmings for membership in the Association.
Box
75Monticello Association Membership Advisory Committee, 2002-2005
MAC Final Report rejected by the Association and records of the split in the family and nationwide publicity covering the
racial dimension of the fight. Contains clippings, magazines, and ephemera relating to Jefferson, Hemmings, and Monticello.
Box
76Episcopal Church 1950-1970s
Primarily Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, N.C., and the Diocese of North Carolina.
Vestry notes and other aspects of administration and finance
Documents surrounding the search for a new rector, 1959
Long-range planning
Materials surrounding 1969 controversy over the Urban Crisis Program grant to Malcolm X University
Renovation and repair of church facilities
1970s sermons, mostly by Reverend Peter James Lee
Box
77Chapel of the Cross, 1989-2004
Planning for the 150th anniversary of the church
History of the church
Financial planning
Renovation and restoration of the buildings
Box
78Episcopal Church of the Advocate: creation, philosophies, activities and members, 2003-2005
Saint Alban's in Washington, D.C., 1980
Episcopal Church, 2003-2004
Diocese of North Carolina and Kanuga
Anglican Primates, 2005
Companions of the Holy Cross
Summit retreat, 2002
Episcopal Women's History
Various materials relating to the diocese of Virginia
Box
79North Carolina Community Development Initiative, Inc. (NCCDI) Board of Directors meeting packages 1998-2005
Box
80North Carolina Community Development Initiative, Inc. (NCCDI), 1998-2005
Notes, memoranda, correspondence
Ideas, plans, funding
Grants
Evaluations
Financial statements
Newsletters
Reports
Publications and informational pieces
Box
81National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), 1976-2005
Correspondence concerning George Esser's hiring as Executive Director
Other correspondence,1976-1982
Reports and correspondence regarding President Jimmy Carter's reorganization project for the Department of Health and Human
Services
Reports and publications on NAPA's work
Speech on the occasion of George Esser's retirement
1983 peer reveiw for Public Administration program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Box
82Materials documenting George Esser's work with the Ford Foundation and the Southern Regional Council (SRC), 1969-1980
News releases and clippings regarding appointments and departures
Mixed personal and professional correspondence
Notes on program ideas
Task force on Human Welfare and Poverty
Job search and consulting materials
Materials regarding real estate negotiations
Box
83Institute of Government (IOG) materials
Correspondence, notes, and reports on various topics in city, county, and state government
Material on costs and benefits of annexation, including two published reports for Greensboro by George Esser, 1950s
Writings and speeches, 1961-1963
Materials relating to law dealing with picketing and parading regarding racial demonstrations, September-October 1963
Miscellaneous IOG materials, including one file of writings by Albert Coates
Box
84Personal and professional materials, 1949-1989
Materials relating to Frank Porter Graham's 1950 senate race
Correspondence
Materials relating to the Campus YWCA, 1950s
Clippings by or about Geore Esser, 1957-1976
Materials relating to the death of George Esser's mother, Martha Randolph Taylor Esser, January 1968
Ford Foundation contract, 1968-1969
Published remarks by Albert Coates on UNC, 1977
Letters received when George Esser left NAPA, 1982
Coker Hills Association, 1980s
Materials relating to George Esser's inclusion in the North Carolina State Bar
Box
85Speeches and publications by George Esser, 1963-1968
Box
86-87Materials relating to the Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church