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| Size | 332.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 187000 items) |
| Abstract | The North Carolina Fund, an independent, non-profit, charitable corporation, sought and dispensed funds to fight poverty in North Carolina, 1963-1968. Governor Terry Sanford and other North Carolinians convinced the Ford Foundation to grant $7 million initial funding for a statewide anti-poverty effort aimed at rural and urban communities. This money--plus additional funding from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation; the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation; the U.S. Dept. of Labor; U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare; U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development; and the Office of Economic Opportunity--enabled the Fund to support a broad program of education, community action, manpower development, research and planning, and other efforts to fight poverty. The collection consists of administrative and financial records (about 32,000 items), including policy statements; Board of Directors minutes and other records; correspondence, speeches, and other files of Executive Director George Hyndman Esser (1921- ) and other staff members; records of meetings and conferences; proposals and grants; materials documenting the Fund's relationship with the Ford Foundation, the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Foundation for Community Development, the Low-Income Housing Development Corporation, and other organizations; subject files; clippings, audit reports; and financial correspondence and other financial records. There is also material about Congressmen Jim Gardner and Nick Galiafianakis's 1967 attacks on Fund activities in Durham, N.C., and earlier controversies over political activity of staff members in areas served by Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development and Craven Operation Progress. Other material relates to "How North Carolina Whites and Blacks View: Each Other, Government and Police, Housing, Poverty, Education, and Employment," an opinion poll conducted by Oliver Quayle & Company in 1968. Also included are proposals and grant applications for housing, education, community development, job training, leadership, and rural development programs; the North Carolina Voter Education Project; proposals from the State of Franklin Health Council Inc.; and audiovisual material created by the Public Information Department, including social welfare documentary films and audio recordings of interviews, board meetings, and radio shows. |
| Creator | North Carolina Fund. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Processed by: Linda Sellars, with the assistance of Rebecca Blackmon, LeeAnne Britt, Nicole Byers, Cara Cardellino, Kate Harris, Culley Holderfield, Lisa LaCosse, Abigail Peoples, Alicia Reeves, Susie Sharp, Jennifer Smith, Julia Smith, Ami Tadlock, Katie Tyson, and Jennifer Warren 1995
Additions processed by Meaghan Alston and Nancy Kaiser, September 2021
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser and Patrick Cullom, September 2021
Conscious Editing Work by: Nancy Kaiser, July 2023 (added statement about "Croatan")
NOTE: Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.
NOTE: "Croatan" (or "Croatoan") is an identity term that was used by the Indigenous peoples of the Hatteras and Roanoke Islands in the late 16th century. In subsequent centuries, the Indigenous peoples of Sampson, Craven, Robeson, Cumberland, Hoke and Scotland counties in North Carolina were thought to be the descendants of the Croatan Indians and were so called by North Carolina state officials; however, many tribal nations existed and exist now in this area who prefer to use their own identity terms, including the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, the Tuscarora Nation of North Carolina, and others.
In 2023, archivists examined the use of "Croatan" in Wilson Library archival collections and decided to leave this term in places where it refers to the Indigenous peoples of the Hatteras and Roanoke Islands, is part of a title, or is the proper name of a geographic feature or location. We have replaced "Croatan" with the appropriate identity term for materials that refer specifically to the groups noted above. When we are unable to make a determination, we use "Indigenous peoples." We recognize the complexity of this issue and welcome feedback on this decision at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.
This collection was processed with support, in part, from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access.
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Historical Information
The North Carolina Fund was incorporated in July 1963 as an independent, non-profit, charitable corporation to seek and dispense funds to attack the cycle of poverty in North Carolina. At the instigation of John Ehle, Governor Terry Sanford had met in New York with representatives of the Ford Foundation, which was funding model anti-poverty programs. Early in 1963, Ford Foundation leaders toured communities in North Carolina and met with leaders of grassroots organizations. After six months of negotiations, the North Carolinians convinced the Ford Foundation to fund its first statewide anti-poverty project, one which would be aimed at rural as well as urban communities. The Ford Foundation provided initial funding of $7 million for a demonstration program, with the condition that the program would be dissolved after five years.
In its five years, the North Carolina Fund received and spent more than $16 million in what director George Hyndman Esser (1921- ) described as a "quest for new ways to enable the poor to become productive citizens, to encourage self-reliance, and to foster institutional, political, economic, and social change designed to strengthen the functioning of democratic society." Funding from the Ford Foundation, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Office of Economic Opportunity enabled the Fund to support a broad program of manpower development, community action, education, research and planning, and other efforts to fight poverty.
The early emphasis of the North Carolina Fund program was on education. Two million dollars of the original Ford Foundation grant went to the state Department of Public Instruction to improve elementary schools. The Fund's focus then shifted to community action and manpower development programs. The Fund supported eleven community action agencies across the state--in the mountains, in the Piedmont, and in coastal counties. Of these, ten are still in operation. Other organizations created under the Fund's aegis included the Foundation for Community Development, the North Carolina Low Income Housing Development Corporation, and the Manpower Development Corporation (now known as MDC Inc.).
An overview of the funds received, the distribution of funds by percentage, and a list of the major programs supported follows:
SOURCES OF FUNDS
Ford Foundation $7,000,000
Zachary Smith Reynolds Foundation (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1,625,000
Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 875,000
U.S. government (contracts and grants from the Office of Economic Opportunity; U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development; U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare; U.S. Dept. of Labor) 7,042,753
FUNDS EXPENDED
Manpower Development 43.7%
Education 21.0%
Grants to Communities for Administration of Projects 15.1%
Research and Planning 7.3%
Housing 5.3%
Motivation and Community Development 4.7%
Human Relations in Law Enforcement 1.5%
Health and Welfare 0.9%
Legal Services 0.4%
Day Care 0.1%
Total 100.0%
MAJOR PROGRAMS
North Carolina Volunteers. Summers 1964 and 1965. Recruited 327 college students, who were trained and placed in service jobs working with anti-poverty agencies throughout the state. Funded by $49,835 from the U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, $274,316 from the Office of Economic Opportunity, and $85,444 from the North Carolina Fund.
Community Action Technicians (CAT). 1964-1967. Recruited and trained 105 people from all economic levels to fill crucial manpower gaps in community action programs. Graduates of the program served as neighborhood workers, supervisors of Headstart and Neighborhood Youth Corps programs, and in other positions in community action agencies and anti-poverty institutions. Funded by $379,049 from the Office of Economic Opportunity and $65,502 from the North Carolina Fund.
VISTA Training. 1965-1966. Classroom and field training and instruction to 220 members of the federal Volunteers In Service To America (VISTA) program. Funded by $261,161 contract with Office of Economic Opportunity.
Community Action Interns. 1967. Trained 30 college students in the basics of community organization and placed them in five North Carolina communities where local groups had requested summer assistance. A follow-up phase offered undergraduate courses in community organization to students at Catawba College, Livingstone College, and Shaw University. Funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity.
Foundation for Community Development (FCD). Founded 1967. Non-profit corporation working with the poor in eleven geographic areas in North Carolina in leadership development and training, community organization, and economic development. Its assistance to United Organizations for Community Improvement (UOCI) in Durham resulted in the establishment of United Durham Inc., a group of poor people that established businesses owned and operated by the poor. Initially funded by a grant from the North Carolina Fund of $263,838; subsequent grants from the North Carolina Fund of $8,093, $241,625, and $210,000. Other support came from the Office of Economic Opportunity--a special impact grant of $900,000 for economic development paired with a $60,000 grant from the Economic Development Agency (EDA). Smaller amounts of support came from a variety of other sources.
Community Action Programs. Eleven programs in eleven North Carolina communities over a five-year period with grants of $30,000 to $40,000 annually for administrative support, plus a total of 82 special grants varying from $3,000 to $150,000 for innovative experimental programs not fundable by federal sources. Among other projects, special grants financed the Winston-Salem Police Department's specially-trained community services squad for low-income neighborhoods; a mountain community action program's plan for making small incentive grants to neighborhood councils; and a three-year development program for enabling low-income farmers to grow, process, and market truck crops.
Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort (MITCE). 1965-1967. Established field offices in three eastern North Carolina areas and sent out field workers to find the unemployed and underemployed, analyze total family problems, and assist families in meeting their employment and other family needs by using local resources. Contacted 10,000 families. Funded through a $1.8 million contract with the U.S. Dept. of Labor.
Mobility. Established 1965. Recruited unemployed rural people in coastal and mountain counties, developed jobs for them in industrial areas of the state, and assisted them in moving and adapting to new job and living environments. Relocated 1,136 families, 1965-1968. Funded by a $628,248 contract with U.S. Dept. of Labor. Later operated by North Carolina Manpower Development Corporation.
Manpower Development Corporation. Established 1967. Planned and operated statewide manpower programs. Lobbied for establishment of a state manpower council.
Survey of Low-Income Families. 1965-1968. Gathered data on 12,000 families living in 11 areas served by community action programs. Measured attitude, values, wants and needs of family members, as well as income, education, housing, health.
Analysis of the Community Action Process. 1965-1968. Examined the relationship between communities and community action agencies, analyzing general patterns in which communities make decisions, formulate goals, and resolve conflicts.
Learning Institute of North Carolina (LINC). 1964-1969. A private, non-profit corporation providing leadership, technical assistance, and information to improve public education in North Carolina. The North Carolina Fund joined Duke University, the Consolidated University of North Carolina, the State Board of Education, and the State Board of Higher Education in financial support of LINC. North Carolina Fund share of support totaled $362,473.
Comprehensive School Improvement Project (CSIP). 1964-1965. Joint effort of North Carolina Fund and State Board of Education. Experimental programs in 228 schools reached more than 25,000 children from kindergarten through third grade. Total cost was $2.9 million, 55% from state government and 45% from North Carolina Fund.
Low-Income Housing Development Corporation (LIHDC). Established 1967. Private, non-profit corporation with a small staff of experts who assisted North Carolina communities in developing privately-sponsored, low-income housing. LIHDC also explored solutions to the problems of building decent, but economical new housing to enable home ownership by low-income families. Began operation with grants of $133,530 from the North Carolina Fund and $497,535 from the Office of Economic Opportunity.
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Scope and Content
Records of the North Carolina Fund, primarily the files of the central office staff, are organized by program. Also included are files of the field offices of the Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort (MITCE) Program and audiovisual material made by the Public Information Department.
North Carolina Fund records include those of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee; the Executive Director; the Special Projects, Training, Community Affairs (also known as Community Development, Community Support, and Community Organization), Research, Planning and Program Development, and Public Information departments; programs funded by the North Carolina Fund; and various study committees staffed and supported by the Fund.
Among the programs operated by the North Carolina Fund documented in these records are the North Carolina Volunteers program; training of community action technicians to work in North Carolina and with Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA); a summer internship and curriculum development program; and research on poverty in North Carolina, community problems in areas served by community action programs, the community action process, and manpower and economic development.
Also documented are the eleven community action agencies funded by the North Carolina Fund and the projects they operated. There are also files relating to two grassroots organizations which received financial support from the North Carolina Fund: United Organizations for Community Improvement (UOCI) in Durham and the People's Program on Poverty (PPOP) in the Choanoke area (Northampton, Bertie, Hertford, and Halifax counties). Other programs documented include the Comprehensive School Improvement Project (CSIP), Learning Institute of North Carolina (LINC), Youth Educational Services (YES), community service consultants, Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort (MITCE), Mobility, Manpower Development Corporation (MDC), Foundation for Community Development (FCD), and the Low-Income Housing Development Corporation (LIHDC).
The collection also contains audiovisual material made by the Public Information Department. These materials consist of audio recordings of interviews, board meetings, and radio shows, including the Public Information Department's weekly radio show, "New Voices in Carolina," as well as motion picture films that consist mostly of social welfare documentary films about the North Carolina Fund. The collection also contains related materials that correspond to the motion picure film and audio recordings found in the collection, including scripts of the films, slide shows, and transcripts of the radio shows.
The collection is organized into series that were established by the North Carolina Fund staff. Each series contains the records of a department or function of the North Carolina Fund. Series were established during processing. Many of the original file folder titles were retained, but some files were combined, divided, or renamed for clarification purposes during processing. The order of the series and of the files within the series has been changed somewhat in order to put the most general files first and move from the general to the specific. Thus, the first series, Administration, contains the records likely to give the broadest overview of the organization's operation. Most series are organized so that policies, reports, and other documents that show the purpose and scope of the program are placed first, followed by files on specific programs or participants. For Series 4, Community Action Programs, the original order was retained--programs are arranged by geographic location across North Carolina from west to east.
Note that some series have abstracts and lists of subject headings that relate to the materials included in those specific series in addition to or instead of scope and content notes. Because the abstracts serve not only to provide information at the series level, but also as the basis for records in the Library's online catalog, there may be some redundancy between abstracts and notes.
There are two small additions of miscellaneous administrative records of Carroll H. Leggett and Billy E. Barnes, the Director of Public Information for the North Carolina Fund. These materials can be found in Series 8A, 8.3.1A, and 10A. Of note are reports, newsletters and other printed materials, transcripts of interviews from the "New Voices from Carolina" radio series, and recordings of meetings with John Ehle, Floyd McKissick, Howard Fuller, and Terry Sanford.
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Series 1. Administration, 1963-1968.
ABSTRACT: SERIES 1. ADMINISTRATION: Administrative and financial records (about 32,000 items), including policy statements; Board of Directors minutes and other records; correspondence, speeches, and other files of Executive Director George Hyndman Esser (1921- ) and other staff members; records of meetings and conferences; proposals and grants; materials documenting the Fund's relationship with the Ford Foundation, the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), the Foundation for Community Development (FCD), the Low-Income Housing Development Corporation (LIHDC), and other organizations; subject files; clippings; audit reports; and financial correspondence and other financial records. There is also material about Congressman Jim Gardner's 1967 attacks on Fund activities in Durham, N.C., and earlier controversies over political activity of staff members in areas served by Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development (NEED) and Craven Operation Progress (COP). Other material relates to How North Carolina Whites and Blacks View: Each Other, Government and Police, Housing, Poverty, Education, and Employment, an opinion poll conducted by Oliver Quayle & Company in 1968. Also included are proposals and grant applications for housing, education, community development, job training, leadership, and rural development programs; the North Carolina Voter Education Project; and proposals from the State of Franklin Health Council Inc.
NOTE: Original file folder titles and original folder order have, for the most part, been retained.
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Subseries 1.1. Governance, 1963-1968.
Arrangement: by type of document.
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Subseries 1.1.1. Policies and Official Documents, 1963-1968.
Arrangement: by subject.
Major policy statements and governing documents of the North Carolina Fund.
| Folder 1 |
History of the North Carolina Fund |
| Folder 2 |
Proposal to Ford Foundation, 12 August 1963 |
| Folder 3 |
Articles of Incorporation |
| Folder 4 |
By-laws |
| Folder 5 |
Functions, Objectives, Priorities |
| Folder 6 |
Organization |
| Folder 7 |
Administrative Manual |
| Folder 8 |
Programs and Policies |
| Folder 9 |
Community Action Agencies |
| Folder 10 |
Guidelines for Proposals to North Carolina Fund |
| Folder 11 |
Selected Facts on North Carolina Relating to the Mission of the North Carolina Fund, 30 September 1963 |
| Folder 12 |
Members of Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Staff |
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Subseries 1.1.2. Board of Directors and Executive Committee, 1963-1968.
Arrangement: chronological.
Minutes and supporting materials for meetings of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the North Carolina Fund. Supporting materials include correspondence, policy statements, budgets, plans, grant requests and staff recommendations, departmental reports, project progress reports, reports from community action programs, and clippings.
A sound recording of a North Carolina Fund Board Meeting is located in Series 8.3: T-4710/1-2. North Carolina Fund Board Meeting, 7-8 May 1967.
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Subseries 1.2. Executive Director, 1963-1971.
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Subseries 1.2.1. Correspondence, 1963-1971.
Arrangement: chronological.
Letters and memoranda to and from George Hyndman Esser (1921- ), Executive Director of the North Carolina Fund. Beginning in October 1963, in-state correspondence is filed separately from out-of-state correspondence. For 1963 and 1964, there is a separate category of Governor's Office correspondence. The subjects and correspondents in Esser's letters and memos encompass the whole range of the Fund's programs and activities and are closely related to materials found in other series. Although many duplicates have been removed during processing, some duplicates may remain within this series and some items, no doubt, may be found in other series as well. This is particularly true of correspondence about community action agencies, manpower programs, and study committees.
In-state correspondence consists of internal memos to and from North Carolina Fund staff members as well as correspondence with members of the Fund's Board of Directors, state agency heads and staff members, and staff and board members of the eleven community action agencies supported by the Fund.
In addition to correspondence with Governor Terry Sanford, Governor's Office correspondence includes correspondence with his Special Assistants John Ehle, Joel Fleishman, and George Stephens. The 1963 correspondence is primarily concerned with start-up of the North Carolina Fund, publicity for the start-up, relations with the Ford Foundation, and the interest of local people in North Carolina Fund plans. The 1964 correspondence is mostly letters passed on from the Governor's office to the North Carolina Fund concerning people looking for jobs or communities looking for funding.
Out-of-state correspondence is comprised primarily of correspondence with federal and Ford Foundation officials. Among these were Sidney Woolner and Harold Bailin of the Office of Economic Opportunity; Richard Groner of the Office of Manpower Policy, Evaluation and Research; and Paul Ylsivaker of the Ford Foundation. Out-of-state correspondence also includes correspondence with researchers interested in poverty and community action, staff of community action programs in other states, and organizations in which Esser participated, such as the Council of the Southern Mountains, National Association for Community Development, and the Southern Regional Council.
Correspondence, 1969-1971, concerns the dissolution of the North Carolina Fund and reports on its projects and spin-offs. Esser's correspondence, 1969-1971, as Ford Foundation's Program Adviser for the South, is filed in Series 1.6.
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Subseries 1.2.2. Gardner File, 1965-1969.
Arrangement: chronological.
Correspondence and other material kept by George Esser in a confidential file separate from his other correspondence. The name "Gardner file" apparently stems from the fact that much of the material relates to attacks on the North Carolina Fund by Congressman Jim Gardner in the summer of 1967 and the North Carolina Fund's response to those attacks. Not all of the material in these files has to do with Gardner, but most relates to charges of inappropriate political activity by Fund staff.
Earlier files contain material about controversies that arose in two community action agencies in eastern North Carolina--Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development (NEED) and Craven Operation Progress (COP). Esser's responses to charges against Fund staff were sent to Congressman David Henderson, OEO Director Sargent Shriver, and Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, as well as to state and local leaders. Also included are a memo, 2 August 1966, from staff member Bill Flowers to Durham attorney Moses Burt of McKissick & Burt, asking for a legal opinion on the political activity of employees of programs funded by loans or grants from the federal government, and Burt's response, 4 August 1966.
Clippings, statements, memos, letters, press releases, and other materials document the charges of Congressman Gardner that members of the staffs of the North Carolina Fund and Operation Breakthrough (OBT), Durham's community action agency, had incited people to violence in July 1967. Gardner's charges followed an incident in which Fund and OBT staff were present at a Durham City Council meeting where poor blacks spoke against the city's housing policies. Rallies and a march on city hall followed the Council's inaction. Controversy centered around Howard Fuller, a community organizer on the OBT staff. Letters of support for Fuller, 25 July 1967, came from union leaders, businessmen, attorneys, ministers, and others, among them Asa Spaulding, Watts Hill Junior, City Councilmen John S. Stewart and C. E. Boulware, A. J. H. Clement III, and H. M. Michaux. A letter, with supporting documents, from North Carolina Attorney General Thomas Wade Bruton, 1 August 1967, informed Esser that the attorney general was investigating charges that the North Carolina Fund had exceeded the authority of its charter. Esser's response and exhibits in support are dated 15 August 1967.
Also included in the Gardner file is correspondence and supporting documentation relating to a U.S. Labor Department review of Manpower Improvement through Community Effort (MITCE) in the fall of 1966.
| Folder 313 |
1965 |
| Folder 314 |
1966 February-June |
| Folder 315 |
1966 July-August |
| Folder 316 |
1966 September-December |
| Folder 317 |
1967 January-June |
Folder 318-321
Folder 318Folder 319Folder 320Folder 321 |
1967 July |
Folder 322-330
Folder 322Folder 323Folder 324Folder 325Folder 326Folder 327Folder 328Folder 329Folder 330 |
1967 August |
| Folder 331 |
1967 September |
| Folder 332 |
1967 October-December |
| Folder 333 |
1968 |
| Folder 334 |
1969 |
| Folder 335 |
Undated |
| Folder 336 |
Summer 1967 Chronology |
Folder 337-338
Folder 337Folder 338 |
Notebook |
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Subseries 1.2.3. Planning and Start-Up, 1963-1964.
Arrangement: chronological.
Correspondence, draft proposals, diagrams, and other items relating to the planning and start-up of the North Carolina Fund. The planning file includes several memos from George Esser to John Ehle concerning organization, staffing, office space, goals, and schedules for starting the planned foundation. Bulletins, September 1963-February 1964, are memos from Esser to Board of Directors members transmitting minutes, rosters, financial statements, copies of speeches, and other items of interest to Board members in the start-up period.
| Folder 339 |
Planning |
| Folder 340 |
Bulletin #1. September 1963 |
| Folder 341 |
Bulletins #2-4. October-November 1963 |
| Folder 342 |
Bulletins #5-6. January-February 1964 |
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Subseries 1.2.4. Quayle Poll, 1968.
Arrangement: by type of material.
Reports, press releases, correspondence, and notes from How North Carolina Whites and Blacks View: Each Other, Government and Police, Housing, Poverty, Education, and Employment , an opinion poll conducted by Oliver Quayle & Company for the North Carolina Fund in 1968.
| Folder 343 |
1968 Opinion Poll Summary |
| Folder 344 |
1968 Opinion Poll, Volume I |
| Folder 345 |
1968 Opinion Poll, Volume II-Volume VI |
| Folder 346 |
1968 Opinion Poll, Volume VII-Volume IX |
| Folder 347 |
1968 Opinion Poll, Volume X-Volume XIII |
| Folder 348 |
Press Releases |
| Folder 349 |
Correspondence |
| Folder 350 |
Questionnaire |
| Folder 351 |
"Notes and Questionnaires on Attitudes Toward Negro-White Relations" |
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Subseries 1.2.5. Speeches, 1962-1968.
Arrangement: chronological.
Typescripts of speeches and statements given by George Esser before various organizations, including testimony before Congressional committees and governmental advisory commissions, as well as presentations at conferences and talks to local civic clubs. Most of the speeches are about poverty, methods for the fight against poverty, and the role of foundations, local and state government, and citizens in fighting poverty. Most of the speeches in the compilation, "When the Heart Is Afire, Some Sparks Will Fly Out of the Mouth," were given in 1966 and 1967.
Folder 352-355
Folder 352Folder 353Folder 354Folder 355 |
"When the Heart Is Afire, Some Sparks Will Fly Out of the Mouth." Speeches of George Esser Junior, 1962-1968. |
| Folder 356 |
1963 |
| Folder 357 |
1964 |
Folder 358-359
Folder 358Folder 359 |
1965 |
| Folder 360 |
1966 |
Folder 361-362
Folder 361Folder 362 |
1967 |
Folder 363-365
Folder 363Folder 364Folder 365 |
1968 |
| Folder 366 |
Miscellaneous and undated |
| Folder 367 |
Speech material |
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Subseries 1.2.6. Other Materials, 1964-1970.
Arrangement: by subject.
Miscellaneous materials kept in George Esser's files include speeches by others, writings by Esser, materials relating to the phaseout and dissolution of the North Carolina Fund, and other items.
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Subseries 1.3. Staff, 1963-1968.
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Subseries 1.3.1. Correspondence, 1963-1968.
Arrangement: chronological.
Correspondence, primarily routine letters and memoranda, of senior staff, including deputy directors Tom Hartmann and Nathan Garrett, administrative assistants Mary Hatley and Lucy Watkins, and director of administration James Lee Burney.
| Folder 394 |
1963 September-December |
| Folder 395 |
1964 January-February |
| Folder 396 |
1964 March-May |
| Folder 397 |
1964 June-September |
| Folder 398 |
1964 October-December |
| Folder 399 |
1965 January-October |
| Folder 400 |
1965 November-December |
| Folder 401 |
1966 January |
| Folder 402 |
1966 February |
Folder 403-404
Folder 403Folder 404 |
1966 March |
| Folder 405 |
1966 April |
Folder 406-407
Folder 406Folder 407 |
1966 May |
Folder 408-410
Folder 408Folder 409Folder 410 |
1966 June |
| Folder 411 |
1966 July |
| Folder 412 |
1966 August |
| Folder 413 |
1966 September |
| Folder 414 |
1966 October |
| Folder 415 |
1966 November |
| Folder 416 |
1966 December |
| Folder 417 |
1967 January |
| Folder 418 |
1967 February |
| Folder 419 |
1967 April |
| Folder 420 |
1967 March |
| Folder 421 |
1967 May |
| Folder 422 |
1967 June |
| Folder 423 |
1967 July |
| Folder 424 |
1967 August |
| Folder 425 |
1967 September |
| Folder 426 |
1967 October |
| Folder 427 |
1967 November |
Folder 428-429
Folder 428Folder 429 |
1967 December |
| Folder 430 |
1968 January-February |
| Folder 431 |
1968 March-April |
| Folder 432 |
1968 May-December |
| Folder 433 |
1969 and undated |
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Subseries 1.3.2. Reports, 1964-1968.
Arrangement: by subject.
Reports, 1965-1966, on visits to community action programs outside North Carolina by North Carolina Fund staff and project directors; departmental progress reports; North Carolina Fund progress reports; speeches; and other reports by North Carolina Fund staff.
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Subseries 1.3.3. Meetings and Conferences, 1963-1968.
Arrangement: by meeting.
Records of North Carolina Fund staff meetings, conferences attended by North Carolina Fund staff, and a brainstorming project conducted in the summer of 1965 to generate program ideas. Included are minutes, agendas, notes, correspondence, and other items relating to regular staff meetings, senior staff meetings, staff retreats, staff orientations, meetings of department heads and administrative staff, staff committee meetings, and project directors' meetings. Of particular note are reports and papers from a meeting of project directors and North Carolina Fund staff at Blair House, 10-11 August 1965.
In the records of conferences attended are programs and papers from meetings conducted by the Ford Foundation; a conference of state and federal officials with Fund staff in January 1964; regional conferences on the Economic Opportunity Act; meetings of other organizations, such as the National Association of Community Development and the National Association of Social Work; and meetings on topics of interest to Fund staff, such as rural poverty and low-income housing.
Records of the brainstorming project include material collected and written to prepare for seminars on scholarships, public information, and urban and rural housing. There are also a list of participants, correspondence, reports, background papers, and papers presented at seminars on involvement of the poor, urban housing, rural housing, and public information.
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Subseries 1.4. Personnel, 1963-1968.
Arrangement: by type of document.
Personnel policies and procedures, job descriptions, forms, staff directories, organizational charts, correspondence, and other records of the personnel department of the North Carolina Fund. Included are data collected for a position classification survey, information about salaries and fringe benefits, correspondence with job applicants and others, and correspondence of William Koch about recruiting staff for community action agencies, as well as routine personnel department correspondence. Additional correspondence of Koch about staff for community action agencies may be found in Series 4.1.
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Subseries 1.5. Grants and Proposals, 1964-1969.
Arrangement: by grant recipient.
Files on programs funded by the North Carolina Fund and a few proposals for programs that were not funded. Most files contain the project proposal and a report on the staff's review of the proposal. Considerably more information is included for some projects, including the Comprehensive School Improvement Project, the North Carolina Voter Education Project, and the Low-Income Housing Development Corporation. There is additional information about some of these programs in other series. For example, see Series 7.3 for more information about the Comprehensive School Improvement Project (CSIP) and the Learning Institute of North Carolina (LINC); Series 1.9 and Series 7.6 for more information about the Low-Income Housing Development Corporation (LIHDC); and Series 1.8 and Series 4.8 on the United Organizations for Community Improvement (UOCI) in Durham.
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Subseries 1.6. Ford Foundation, 1963-1977.
Arrangement: by type of material.
Records documenting the relationship of the North Carolina Fund to the Ford Foundation. North Carolina's original proposal to the Ford Foundation, 12 August 1963, is found here. There is also correspondence between North Carolina Fund and Ford Foundation staffs about meetings, information, issues of interest, finances, reviews of the North Carolina Fund by the Ford Foundation, and a letter from the Fund's Executive Director, George Hyndman Esser (1921- ), to Mitchell Sviridoff, 24 February 1968, summing up the experience of the North Carolina Fund. Correspondence of George Esser as the Ford Foundation's Program Adviser for the South after the end of the North Carolina Fund is also filed in this series.
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Subseries 1.7. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), 1964-1967.
Arrangement: by subject.
Copies of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964; summaries and analyses of the legislation; amendments, 1965-1967; regulations; Community Action Program guidelines; and information about Head Start and Neighborhood Youth Corps.
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Subseries 1.8. Foundation for Community Development (FCD), 1967-1972.
Arrangement: by subject.
Records relating to the Foundation for Community Development (FCD), which was chartered on 10 October 1967 to support economic development and community organization in North Carolina, received an initial grant of $263,838 from the North Carolina Fund, and began operation on 1 December 1967 with a staff of thirteen, all from the North Carolina Fund. Included are minutes of the Board of Directors; proposals to the North Carolina Fund, the Ford Foundation, and the Office of Economic Opportunity; reports; correspondence; materials created by the Foundation; clippings; and materials related to investigations of the Foundation for Community Development in 1969.
Reports include monitoring reports, 1970-1971, sent by the North Carolina Fund's Executive Director, George Esser, and his assistant, Lucy Watkins, to the Ford Foundation; FCD's monthly reports, 1970-1971, to the Ford Foundation; audit reports, 1968-1970; an evaluation report, October 1969, compiled by a team of five outsiders at the request of the North Carolina Fund; and other reports. Correspondence, 1967-1972, is chiefly letters of Nathan Garrett, executive director, and includes reports to the North Carolina Fund in letter form. Other subjects of correspondence are the United Organizations for Community Improvement (UOCI), the People's Program on Poverty (PPOP), funding, audits, monitoring, and controversies involving FCD staff members.
Files on organizations funded by FCD, such as the Greensboro Association of Poor People (GAPP), United Durham Inc. (UDI), and Malcolm X Liberation University contain lists of board members and other information. Notebooks created by FCD for community organizers include one on community organization, one on publicity, and one on neighborhood councils. There are also files on community development training and a leadership development program.
Clippings, largely 1969-1970, are mostly from Raleigh and Durham newspapers. Many relate to controversies in 1969 involving FCD staff members Howard Fuller and James S. Lee. A clipping in 1970 reported that the Ford Foundation had awarded a grant of $540,000 to FCD for economic development, leadership training, legal and social research, and not for community organization.
Records relating to investigations of FCD in 1969 contain a transcript of hearings, 10 July 1969, before the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, as well as material about the Ford Foundation's investigations of allegations of involvement of FCD staff in incidents of student unrest at North Carolina A & T State University in Greensboro.
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Subseries 1.9. Low-Income Housing Development Corporation (LIHDC),
1966-1972.
Arrangement: by type of document.
Records of the Low-Income Housing Development Corporation (LIHDC), which began operation in January 1967 as a delegate agency of the North Carolina Fund, with the purpose of developing better housing for less money. Included are the corporation's articles of incorporation and by-laws; Board of Directors' minutes; proposals to the North Carolina Fund, the U.S.Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the North Carolina Board of Science and Technology, the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), and the Ford Foundation; documents relating to consolidation of LIHDC with the Rural Housing Development Corporation (RHDC); evaluation, progress, and other reports; correspondence of Bob Smith and other staff members, chiefly 1968-1971; and financial records. Correspondence documents the organization of the LIHDC, the beginnings of a housing study by Arthur Cogswell, the organization's funding, tax status, and relationships with the National Housing Development Center and other housing research organizations.
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Subseries 1.10. Other Organizations, 1963-1971.
Arrangement: by organization.
Correspondence, proposals, reports, newsletters, and other materials from organizations other than those funding the North Carolina Fund or funded by the North Carolina Fund. Included is substantial material from the Council of the Southern Mountains, the Mississippi Research and Development Center, the National Association for Community Development, the North Carolina State Board of Public Welfare, the North Carolina State Board of Higher Education, the Regional Education Laboratory for the Carolinas and Virginia, the Southern Regional Council, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and various urban action agencies, as well as small amounts of material from other organizations such as the Foundations Group, the International City Managers Association, the Model Cities program, the North Carolina State Technical Action Panel of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, the Southern Education Reporting Service, and others.
The nature of the material for each organization varies with the relationship of the Fund or Fund staff to the organization. The organizations for which there is the most material are those in which Fund director George Hyndman Esser (1921- ) played an active role. As a member of the Board of Directors of the Council of the Southern Mountains, for example, Esser corresponded with Executive Director (later General Chairman) Perley F. Ayer and Associate Director (later Executive Director) Loyal Jones and others and received minutes of board of directors meetings, memoranda to the Board, and proposals and reports about projects, especially the Council's Talent Recruitment, Technical Assistance, and Training grant. Newsletters, reports, and correspondence with Executive Directors Wallace Edgerton and D. Richard Wenner document Esser's tenure as a Board member of the National Association for Community Development (NACD). The Southern Regional Council (SRC) material here seems to have come primarily from Esser's participation in a Ford Foundation Review of the Council in January 1968. Included here are reports from the Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Houston Councils on Human Relations; annual reports of the Southern Regional Council for 1965, 1966, and 1967; audit reports, budgets; other reports; and publications of the SRC's Voter Education Project.
It is often not possible to determine exactly what the relationship was between the Fund and the other organization. In the case of the Mississippi Research and Development Center, the presence of a proposal to the Ford Foundation indicates that the connection was through the Foundation. Proposals, reports, and newsletters from the Mississippi Research and Development Center describe its program of human and economic resource development for the Mississippi Delta.
Newsletters, reports and memos from the North Carolina State Board of Higher Education include a study of university status for East Carolina College and a report on desegregation of North Carolina colleges and universities and the appropriate role for traditionally black institutions. Supporting material for its 25 September 1968 meeting, including discussion of medical assistance payments to mental hospitals, public assistance policies, and its legislative program for the 1969 General Assembly, comprise the bulk of the North Carolina State Board of Public Welfare material.
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Subseries 1.11. Subject Files, 1963-1969.
Arrangement: by subject.
Miscellaneous correspondence, reports, and publications apparently collected and kept by North Carolina Fund staff. Subjects include civil rights, education, housing, health, employment and economics, and youth programs, among others. There is a relatively small amount of information for each subject.
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Subseries 1.12. Clippings, 1967-1972.
Arrangement: chronological.
Clippings, chiefly 1969-1971, from newspapers and magazines, especially the New York Times and the Raleigh News and Observer. Most clippings are about poverty, race relations, or federal government programs related to poverty or race; a few are about local events such as student protests at Duke in 1968 or the University of North Carolina Foodworkers' strike in 1969.
| Folder 1205 |
1967-1968 |
| Folder 1206 |
1969 January |
| Folder 1207 |
1969 February |
| Folder 1208 |
1969 March |
| Folder 1209 |
1969 April |
| Folder 1210 |
1969 May |
| Folder 1211 |
1969 June |
| Folder 1212 |
1969 July |
| Folder 1213 |
1969 August |
| Folder 1214 |
1969 September |
| Folder 1215 |
1969 October |
Folder 1216-1217
Folder 1216Folder 1217 |
1969 November |
| Folder 1218 |
1969 December |
| Folder 1219 |
1970 January |
| Folder 1220 |
1970 February |
| Folder 1221 |
1970 March |
| Folder 1222 |
1970 April |
| Folder 1223 |
1970 May |
| Folder 1224 |
1970 June |
Folder 1225-1226
Folder 1225Folder 1226 |
1970 July |
| Folder 1227 |
1970 August |
| Folder 1228 |
1970 September |
| Folder 1229 |
1970 October-December |
| Folder 1230 |
1971 January-February |
| Folder 1231 |
1971 March-May |
| Folder 1232 |
1971 June-August |
| Folder 1233 |
1971 September-December |
| Folder 1234 |
1972 |
| Folder 1235 |
Undated |
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Series 2. Volunteer Programs, 1963-1968.
Arrangement: by program.
ABSTRACT: SERIES 2. VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS: Volunteer program records (about 14,000 items) are primarily those of the North Carolina Volunteers program, which operated in 12 counties in 1964 and 25 counties in 1965. These files include information about college student volunteers, daily logs of volunteers, reports from volunteers, information about community objections to racially integrated teams of volunteers, and correspondence of staff and volunteers. Also included are files relating to Youth Educational Services (YES), a statewide tutorial project in which college students tutored disadvantaged children; a study of women volunteers in North Carolina, which resulted in Women Volunteers in the War on Poverty by Guion Griffis Johnson; the establishment of an Outward Bound school in North Carolina; and other special projects, including a health careers project, a migrant health project, and Upward Bound.
NOTE: Original file folder titles and original folder order have, for the most part, been retained.
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Subseries 2.1. North Carolina Volunteers (NCV), 1963-1966.
Note that audiovisual material relating to the North Carolina Volunteers may be found in Series 8.3.
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Subseries 2.1.1. Correspondence, 1963-1966.
Arrangement: chronological.
Letters and memos to and from North Carolina Fund staff involved in organizing and running the North Carolina Volunteers (NCV) program. The bulk of the correspondence relates to speaking engagements of staff, funding for the volunteer programs, helping college groups organize tutoring programs, and recruitment and selection of volunteers. Early correspondence is primarily about speaking engagements of Jim Beatty, the first director of the North Carolina Volunteers. Curtis Gans, assistant director, corresponded with numerous people about recruitment and selection of the 1964 volunteers. Also included is correspondence of Jack P. Mansfield, Director of Volunteer Services and later Director of Special Projects for the North Carolina Fund. Later staff included Bill Harriss and Frank Rush. In a memo to Mansfield, 5 February 1965, Bill Darity expressed his concern that all teams of volunteers should be integrated and that the supervisory staff should be interracial. An undated memo (probably 1965) describes an incident in which volunteers in Craven County were shot at. The latest correspondence is about the end of the volunteer program and reassignment of staff.
| Folder 1236 |
November 1963-March 1964 |
| Folder 1237 |
1964 April |
| Folder 1238 |
1964 May-June |
| Folder 1239 |
1964 July-October |
| Folder 1240 |
1964 November |
| Folder 1241 |
1964 December and undated |
| Folder 1242 |
1965 January-February |
| Folder 1243 |
1965 March |
| Folder 1244 |
1965 April |
| Folder 1245 |
1965 May-June |
| Folder 1246 |
1965 July-September |
| Folder 1247 |
1965 October |
| Folder 1248 |
1965 November-December |
| Folder 1249 |
1965 Undated |
| Folder 1250 |
1966 and undated |
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Subseries 2.1.2. Summer 1964, 1964.
Arrangement: by function.
RESTRICTED: In order to protect the privacy of volunteers, applicants to the volunteer programs, team directors, and clients of the volunteer program, researchers who wish to use files containing information about these people must agree not to identify them in the products of research without written permission from the subjects.
Records of the North Carolina Volunteers program for the summer of 1964, including applications from potential volunteers, records of the recruitment and selection process, daily logs kept by volunteers, logs and reports of team supervisors, reports of teams of volunteers, and questionnaires completed by volunteers about their experiences.
For a history of the Summer 1964 North Carolina Volunteers program, see Series 6.10.
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Subseries 2.1.3. Summer 1965, 1965.
Arrangement: by function.
RESTRICTED: In order to protect the privacy of volunteers, applicants to the volunteer programs, team directors, and clients of the volunteer program, researchers who wish to use files containing information about these people must agree not to identify them in the products of research without written permission from the subjects.
Records of the North Carolina Volunteers program in the summer of 1965, including proposals, financial information, staff reports, a report to the Office of Economic Opportunity, public relations material, materials relating to conferences of volunteers, applications from communities desiring volunteers, completed questionnaires from representatives of agencies where volunteers were placed, weekly volunteer team reports, volunteer team newsletters, team directors' reports and logs, applications from prospective volunteers, daily logs of volunteers, and questionnaires completed by volunteers.
The questionnaires completed by volunteers contain multiple choice and short answer questions about the volunteers' personalities and attitudes and about their experiences as volunteers. The order of administration of the last three questionnaires was apparently changed after they were printed. The questionnaires administered seventh and housed in folders labeled Questionnaire VII are titled QUESTIONNAIRE VIII; those administered eighth and placed in folders labeled Questionnaire VIII are titled QUESTIONNAIRE IX; and those given ninth and placed in folders labeled Questionnaire IX are titled QUESTIONNAIRE VII.
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Subseries 2.1.4. Winter Programs, 1964-1966,
1968.
Arrangement: by function.
RESTRICTED: In order to protect the privacy of volunteers, applicants to the volunteer programs, team directors, and clients of the volunteer program, researchers who wish to use files containing information about these people must agree not to identify them in the products of research without written permission from the subjects.
Records of winter programs of the North Carolina Volunteers. The bulk of the material is from 1965-1966, but there are some items from 1964-1965, and there is a report, written in 1968, about the programs in both winters. For 1965-1966, there are a constitution, program guidelines, progress reports, position papers, and files on each institution and each community. Although a small amount of correspondence is filed in this series by subject, most of the correspondence about the winter programs may be found in Series 2.1.1.
Also included is correspondence and other material related to distribution of books from the Books for Appalachia program to libraries and community centers serving poor people. The North Carolina Volunteers staff received 166 sets of the World Book Encyclopedia Dictionary to distribute in North Carolina, not only in the Appalachian region of the state, but wherever they were needed. Also included is some material about the Appalachian Volunteers project, where Books for Appalachia originated.
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Subseries 2.2. Volunteer Study, 1964-1967.
Arrangement: by function.
Proposals, grant requests, correspondence, and conference materials, relating to the North Carolina Council of Women's Organizations's project to develop a volunteer program for the state of North Carolina. In the course of the project, Guion Griffis Johnson wrote a book, Women Volunteers in the War on Poverty.
For a history of the North Carolina Fund's interaction with the North Carolina Council of Women's Organizations, see Series 6.10.
| Folder 2445 |
North Carolina Fund Grant for Study of Volunteers |
| Folder 2446 |
North Carolina Service Volunteers Proposal to North Carolina Fund |
| Folder 2447 |
NCCWO Correspondence |
| Folder 2448 |
NCCWO Quail Roost Conference |
| Folder 2449 |
Reports on Volunteer Profiles |
| Folder 2450 |
"The Many Lives of North Carolina Women" |
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Subseries 2.3. Youth Educational Services (YES), 1965-1969.
Arrangement: by type of material.
Proposals, by-laws, reports, evaluations, correspondence, financial material, brochures, and other materials of a statewide tutorial project in which college students tutored disadvantaged children. Also included are background reading materials for tutors, materials about training tutors, and materials to be used with students by the tutors. For a history of the YES program, see Series 6.10.
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Subseries 2.4. Department of Special Projects, 1964-1968.
Arrangement: by project.
Files of the Department of Special Projects, mostly relating to projects of Jack Mansfield, including a health careers project, a migrant health project, Upward Bound, and the development of an Outward Bound school in North Carolina. The bulk of the materials in this series relates to Outward Bound, including a history of the North Carolina Outward Bound School, correspondence, funding proposals, publications, financial statements, reports, and other items. For a report on Outward Bound in North Carolina, see Series 6.10.
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Series 3. Training Programs, 1963-1968.
Arrangement: by program.
ABSTRACT: SERIES 3: TRAINING PROGRAMS: Training Department records (about 18,000 items) include plans, reports, trainee files, and other material. The Community Service Consultants (CSC) program is the earliest program documented. Other programs include a community development worker training center at University of North Carolina; a training program for Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA); the Community Action Technician (CAT) training program, which trained neighborhood workers, Headstart and Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) supervisors, and other community action and anti-poverty workers; and summer internship and curriculum development programs. The internship program for 1967 was established and operated by the Fund's Department of Community Organization under Howard Fuller to train college students at Catawba College, Livingstone College, and Shaw University for community work. Shaw University, North Carolina College, St. Augustine's, Livingstone College, and Catawba College operated a joint internship program in 1968. CAT files also include information about selective service policies and draft deferments for trainees.
NOTE: Original file folder titles and original folder order have, for the most part, been retained. Audiovisual material related to training programs may be found in Series 8.3.
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Subseries 3.1. Training Department General Files, 1963-1968.
Arrangement: chronological.
General files of the Training Department include correspondence of the training department staff and files of other materials that do not relate to any of the specific training programs or that relate to more than one of them.
Training Department correspondence includes letters about any or all of the Fund's training programs. Early correspondence reflects the Fund's efforts to establish training programs for community action technicians and community service consultants. Some of the earliest letters are to or from consultants who later joined the North Carolina Fund staff. Among these are Ray Koleski of the School of Social Work at the University of Tennessee, Morris Cohen in Detroit, and Marjorie Kelley, Associate Professor of Sociology at Bradford Junior College in Bradford, Mass.
Also found with the correspondence are reports on training programs. Morris Cohen, after he became director of the Fund's Training Department, wrote periodic memoranda to the Fund's Executive Director, George Hyndman Esser (1921- ), about training department activities. Fund staff member Anne Morgan reported to Cohen on field visits to Community Service Consultants in November 1964. More information about the Community Service Consultants program may be found in Series 3.2.
Scattered letters in 1965 between Fund staff and University of North Carolina administrators and faculty discuss the possible participation of the University of North Carolina in what was variously referred to as a Community Development and Training Institute, Center for Community Research and Service, Institute of Community Services, and Multi-Purpose Training Center. Correspondence about this program continues through 1968. Other material relating to planning for this program may be found in Series 3.3.
Late in 1964, there is correspondence about plans for a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) training center and, early in 1965, about evaluating the VISTA training. Marjorie Kelley joined the Fund staff in July 1965 as director of VISTA training. A memorandum, 29 March 1966, from Kelley to Tom Hartmann describes racial problems with VISTAs in their field placements. Correspondence about the VISTA program continues through 1967. Additional information about VISTA training is contained in Series 3.4.
After Richard First was hired early in 1965 as training coordinator for Community Action Technician (CAT) training, there are memos and letters from him about the program. Other material about the CAT program is filed in Series 3.5.
William L. Flowers, training coordinator, wrote to community action program directors about their training needs and training programs for new staff and policy-makers in the community action agencies.
Morris Cohen's correspondence includes letters about his efforts to help the University of North Carolina School of Social Work establish a concentration in community organization and community development. Cohen also wrote letters about National Association for Social Work (NASW) workshops on Neighborhood Organization for Community Action.
Other Training Department files contain reports, proposals, training materials, information about related programs, articles and speeches by Training Department staff members, information about courses at the University of North Carolina and about NASW workshops.
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Subseries 3.2. Community Services Consultants (CSC), 1964-1969.
Arrangement: by type of material.
Readings, job descriptions, information about assignments, reports, and evaluation plans for Community Service Consultants (CSC). For a history of the Community Services Consultant program, see Series 6.10.
| Folder 2629 |
Report on Community Services Consultant Program |
| Folder 2630 |
Proposal for Evaluation of the "Community Services Consultants" |
| Folder 2631 |
CSC's Evaluation of Training |
| Folder 2632 |
CSC Training Program |
| Folder 2633 |
CSC Training Program Syllabus |
| Folder 2634 |
Reprint Permissions (CSC's Syllabus) |
| Folder 2635 |
Tentative Bibliography for CSC |
| Folder 2636 |
Training Papers and Evaluation |
| Folder 2637 |
Job Description for CSCs |
| Folder 2638 |
Assignment of CSCs |
| Folder 2639 |
CSC Teaching Objectives: Field Placement |
| Folder 2640 |
VISTA Field Training with CSCs |
| Folder 2641 |
A Background Statement to the Seminar of North Carolina CSCs |
| Folder 2642 |
Neighborhood Improvement Census/Steps for Starting NCAO |
| Folder 2643 |
Surveys |
| Folder 2644 |
Committees: Research Outlines |
| Folder 2645 |
Papers Related to CSC |
| Folder 2646 |
Financial Statements |
| Folder 2647 |
Letters of Agreement 1964-1966 |
| Folder 2648 |
Cohen, Morris, ed. "Planning for Community Services and Programs" |
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Subseries 3.3. University of North Carolina Training Center, 1964-1967.
Arrangement: by type of material.
Proposals, minutes of planning meetings, and other material relating to development of a training center at the University of North Carolina. The proposed center was variously referred to as a Community Development and Training Institute, Center for Community Research and Service, Institute of Community Services, and Multi-Purpose Training Center. For a history of the Multi-Purpose Training Center, see Series 6.10.
| Folder 2649 |
Proposed University of North Carolina Institute of Community Services |
Folder 2650-2651
Folder 2650Folder 2651 |
Proposal for Center for Community Research and Services at University of North Carolina |
| Folder 2652 |
University Center for Community Research and Services |
| Folder 2653 |
Ad Hoc Advisory Committee for Training |
| Folder 2654 |
Multi-Purpose Training Center (MPTC) Proposal |
| Folder 2655 |
Multi-Purpose Training Center Continuation |
| Folder 2656 |
MPTC Staff Training Conference, June 28-30, 1967 |
| Folder 2657 |
MPTC |
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Subseries 3.4. VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) Training, 1964-1968.
Arrangement: by type of material.
Records of the training program for Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) include general files about VISTA training and files for each of the North Carolina Fund's eight cycles of VISTA training. The general files contain plans, reports, training schedules, publicity, readings for trainees, and information about staff and trainers. The final report to the Office of Economic Opportunity contains an overview of the VISTA training program. The contents of the files for the cycles vary, but usually contain schedules for training and biographical information about participants. Files from VISTA IV contain photos and descriptions of the trainees, daily logs kept by participants during their field training, and the trainees' evaluation of their training. Participant files for VISTA V contain inventories of interests, reports of field observations, and questionnaires on VISTA roles. Additional correspondence about VISTA training may be found in Series 3.1.
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Subseries 3.5. Community Action Technician (CAT), 1964-1969.
Arrangement: by type of material and by training cycle.
RESTRICTED: In order to protect the privacy of volunteers, applicants to the volunteer programs, team directors, and clients of the volunteer program, researchers who wish to use files containing information about these people must agree not to identify them in the products of research without written permission from the subjects.
Records of the Community Action Technician (CAT) training program include plans, schedules, proposals, grant applications, readings for trainees, selective service policies and letters requesting draft deferments for trainees, and information about related research projects. Files for the six CAT training cycles include schedules, newsletters, files on trainees, questionnaires completed by trainees, and information about subsequent employment of trainees. CAT IV files contain some short reports by trainees on observations in the field. CAT VI files contain weekly reports by trainees during their field placements.
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Subseries 3.6. Summer Internships and Curriculum Development, 1967-1968.
Arrangement: by program and by type of material.
Records of a program established and operated by the Fund's Department of Community Organization under Howard Fuller to train college students for community work through practical experience in summer internships and through developing college courses in community development and community organization. Included are a proposal and report to the Office of Economic Opportunity, which funded the program. Also included for the summer of 1967 are applications from students to be interns, requests from Martin County residents for the removal or retention of interns placed there, reports by interns, and reports by North Carolina Fund staff on the interns' work. In addition to their narrative reports, interns completed questionnaires about their experiences. Interns and community action program directors completed questionnaires about curriculum development.
In 1968, Shaw University, North Carolina College, and St. Augustine's cooperated with the Foundation for Community Development in an internship and curriculum development program. Filed here are narrative reports and questionnaires completed by the interns. Also here are information about Shaw University and about a conference held at Shaw in February 1968 as part of the curriculum development effort. The title of the conference was "The Urban Crisis and the Negro College: A Consultation."
Livingstone College and Catawba College operated a joint internship program in 1968. Reports from the interns are found here. Livingstone and Catawba in cooperation with the Piedmont University Center also undertook a joint effort to develop a curriculum to train undergraduates for community development work. Files here document this effort as well as their work toward merging their sociology departments.
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Series 4. Community Action Programs (CAPs) , 1963-1969.
Arrangement: by geographic location of agency (west to east across North Carolina) and then by function.
Records of the North Carolina Fund relating to each of the eleven community action agencies (CAAs or CAPs) supported by the Fund. Although the records of each CAP vary somewhat in the types of materials retained and the issues and kinds of projects documented, the records of each CAP do contain some types of material in common. These include histories and descriptions of the CAP; proposals for funding of the staff and administration of the CAP; articles of incorporation and by-laws; minutes of Board of Directors meetings; information about staffing, administration, and training; background information on communities where the CAP operated; public information, including articles, newsletters, press releases; progress reports on CAP operations and projects; field reports of North Carolina Fund staff; reports and correspondence generated during the North Carolina Fund's review of each CAP in the fall of 1966; correspondence; and proposals, correspondence, and other material related to specific projects.
Also included in a separate series is the correspondence and general files of members of the North Carolina Fund's Community Affairs Department staff. This department was earlier known as the Department of Community Development and the Department of Community Support.
Audiovisual material related to community action may be found in Series 8.3.
Note that original file folder titles and original folder order have, for the most part, been retained.
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Subseries 4.1. Department of Community Affairs, 1963-1968.
Arrangement: by function.
Records of the staff of the department of the North Carolina Fund that provided oversight and support to the community action programs (CAPs). It was first called the Department of Community Development; the name was later changed to Community Support and still later to Department of Community Affairs. Included are correspondence, reports, policy statements, proposals, and other materials relating to the department's function.
The early correspondence is nearly all outgoing letters of Bill Koch, the first director of community development. Most of it relates to finding staff for the community action programs. Similar correspondence may be found in Series 1.4. Several early letters, including one to Charles Weckworth, 8 January 1964, describe the qualifications desired in CAP directors. Other early letters concern visits to communities proposing community action programs.
Also included in this series are materials documenting the process of selection of communities where community action programs would be funded. The 51 original proposals are found here, as are summaries, rankings, and evaluations of the proposals.
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Subseries 4.2. WAMY Community Action Inc., 1963-1968.
Arrangement: by function.
ABSTRACT: SERIES 4.2. WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION Inc.: Records (about 5,000 items) relating to WAMY Community Action Inc., a North Carolina Fund community action program in Watauga, Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey counties in western North Carolina. Included are a special report on WAMY's subcontracting practices; files on incentive grants in the four counties; and files on a craft marketing cooperative, a Neighborhood Youth Corps project, a news demonstration project, and manpower projects.
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Subseries 4.3. Macon Program for Progress (MPP), 1963-1969.
Arrangement: by function.
ABSTRACT: SERIES 4.3. MACON PROGRAM FOR PROGRESS: Records (about 3,000 items) relating to the Macon Program for Progress (MPP), a North Carolina Fund community action program in Macon County. Included are files on a manpower program, a health services program, a mental health program, and an agricultural development program. There are also files on neighborhood workers, Head Start, self-help housing, a credit union, day care and child development, small business development, the Macon County Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association Inc., a family planning clinic, adult education, and a senior citizens program.
NOTE: Of particular interest in this series is material relating to CAP director Julian Griggs, including a biographical sketch, charges against him, and information about his firing. Proposal files include proposal for a Nelson amendment program, CAP components, a manpower program, a program for Increasing Income and Motivation for Learning, Operation Mainstream, a health services program, a mental health program, an agricultural development program, and others. MPP program files include proposals, reports, summaries of meetings, and other material relating to neighborhood workers, Head Start, Western Carolina Center programs, self-help housing, a credit union, day care and child development, small business development, Macon County Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association Inc., a family planning clinic, adult education, and a senior citizens program, among others.
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Subseries 4.4. The Opportunity Corporation (TOC), 1963-1968.
Arrangement: by function.
ABSTRACT: SERIES 4.4. THE OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION: Records (about 3,000 items) relating to The Opportunity Corporation (TOC), a North Carolina Fund community action program in Asheville and Buncombe County, N.C. The program was called the Opportunity Corporaton of Asheville-Buncombe County before February 1967 and the Opportunity Corporation of Madison-Buncombe Counties after that. Included are planning papers, a Poor People's Evaluation of TOC, and general office records. Also included are files on TOC programs: day care, Sandy Mush rural health program, Head Start, the Hillcrest Rent Strike, and the community action program grant.
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Subseries 4.5. Charlotte Area Fund (CAF), 1962-1969.
Arrangement: by function.
ABSTRACT: SERIES 4.5. CHARLOTTE AREA FUND: Records (about 4,000 items) relating to the Charlotte Area Fund (CAF), a North Carolina Fund community action program in the Charlotte, N.C., area. Included are reports on CAF operations and many files relating to the CAF's manpower program, which caused conflict between the Charlotte Bureau of Employment, Training, and Placement (CBEPT) and the Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC). Other documented programs include neighborhood centers, Domestics United, legal services, planning for a model cities proposal to the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, planning for a unified approach to school desegregation, and scholarships for arts enrichment programs. Also included are press releases, information about press coverage of CAF programs, and an almost complete set television station WBT's editorials, 1966-1968.
NOTE: Records relating to the Charlotte Area Fund (CAF), the community action program (CAP) in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County area, include many reports by North Carolina Fund staff on visits to the Charlotte CAP and several papers by North Carolina Fund staffer Kathy Futrell on aspects of CAF operation. There are many files relating to controversy surrounding the manpower program of the Charlotte Area Fund, primarily due to conflict between the Charlotte Bureau of Employment, Training, and Placement (CBEPT) and the Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC). Apparently, responsibility for manpower programs in Charlotte was eventually divided between the two organizations, with CBEPT doing on-the-job training and job development, assessment, and placement, and OIC providing a pre-vocational skills program. Other programs documented in these files include neighborhood centers, Domestics United, legal services, planning for a model cities proposal to the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, planning a unified approach to school desegregation, and scholarships for arts enrichment programs. Also included are files of press releases, files about press coverage of CAF programs, and a set of WBTV editorials, August 1966-October 1968, with a few gaps.
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Subseries 4.6. Salisbury-Rowan Community Service Council (SRCSC), 1963-1968.
Arrangement: by function.
ABSTRACT: SERIES 4.5. SALISBURY-ROWAN COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL: Records (about 2,000 items) relating to the Salisbury-Rowan Community Service Council (SRCSC), a North Carolina Fund community action program in Salisbury and Rowan County, N.C. Included are files on a legal services program and a home managers program. There are also files relating to a change in directors. Also included is a memo from Reginald Durante of the North Carolina Fund to Heslip Lee, SRCSC director, expressing his concern that SRCSC's multipurpose centers were providing only recreation and day care programs, not real organization of the poor, and that their boards of directors had too many middle class people.
Note: There is also documentation of a meeting between Heslip Lee and the owner of Parrish Bakery at which Lee attempted to demonstrate to Parrish there was a need for the kind of help SRCSC provided to unemployed and low-income people in Rowan County.
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Subseries 4.7. Experiment for Self-Reliance (ESR) (Winston-Salem, N.C.),
1963-1969.
Arrangement: by function.
ABSTRACT: SERIES 4.7. EXPERIMENT FOR SELF-RELIANCE: Records (about 4,000 items) relating to the Experiment for Self-Reliance (ESR), a North Carolina Fund community action program in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, N.C. Included are a strong public information component, with articles and clippings as well as newsletters of ESR and of the Neighborhood Youth Corps. ESR programs documented best include the Winston-Salem Police Community Services Unit, for which there are proposals, reports, a review, and clippings; a Wider Job Opportunities program; and a legal services program. There are also files on an after-school tutorial program, a Boys Club program, and a community organization summer program.
NOTE: There are also a report and information gathered by A. J. Field when he studied the organization and administration of ESR in the spring of 1966 and the North Carolina Fund review of ESR in the fall of 1966. Drafts of CAP proposals to the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) for 1963, 1964, and 1966 are also included. The programs documented best include the Winston-Salem Police Community Services Unit, for which there are proposals, reports, a review, and clippings; a Wider Job Opportunities program; and a legal services program.
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Subseries 4.8. Operation Breakthrough (OBT) (Durham, N.C.), 1962-1968.
Arrangement: by function.
ABSTRACT: SERIES 4.8. OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH: Records (about 6,000 items) relating to Operation Breakthrough (OBT), a North Carolina Fund community action program in Durham, N.C. Included are a report of a management survey in June 1966, proposals and files on a mental retardation training conference, a day camp, Head Start, Neighborhood Youth Corps, a New Careers program, a legal assistance program, Community House, the Education Improvement Project, an arts project, and a child case conference program to coordinate the work of social agencies with children. Attacks by Congressmen Jim Gardner and Nick Galiafianakis on North Carolina Fund activities, especially on the work of Howard Fuller in summer 1967, are documented. Reports and legal papers relate to a rent strike in Durham. Also included are files on the United Organizations for Community Improvement (UOCI), an organization of neighborhood councils, especially relating to the controversies about housing for low-income people in Durham, and a proposal for a credit union. Many of the tenants involved in the rent strike and neighborhood activists who presented grievances to the Durham City Council were African American.
NOTE: For additional information on the controversies of 1967, see Series 1.2.2. Reports and legal papers relating to a rent strike in Durham. Also included are files on the United Organizations for Community Improvement (UOCI), especially relating to the Greenberg housing controversy, and a proposal for a credit union.
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Subseries 4.9. Tri-County Community Action (TCCA), 1963-1968.
Arrangement: by function.
ABSTRACT: SERIES 4.9. TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: Records (about 2,000 items) relating to Tri-County Community Action (TCCA), a North Carolina Fund community action program in Robeson, Richmond, and Scotland counties, N.C. Included are administrative files and materials documenting struggles over representation of the area's African-American and Native American populations on the Board of Directors and staff as well as information about programs for African-American and Native American people in the tri-county area. Prominent programs of TCCA included Head Start, Neighborhood Youth Corps, neighborhood organizers, and work training and other manpower programs.
NOTE: A minority report from members of the review team that conducted the North Carolina Fund's review of TCCA in the fall of 1966 was the only such report produced in any of the CAP reviews.
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Subseries 4.10. Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development Inc. (NEED), 1963-1969.
Arrangement: by function.
ABSTRACT: SERIES 4.10: NASH-EDGECOMBE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Records (about 3,000 items) relating to the Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development (NEED), a North Carolina Fund community action agency in Nash and Edgecombe counties, N.C. Included are files that document the agency's emphasis, under Director R. Timothy Brinn, on industry and jobs rather than on community organization and participation of the poor. The program's priorities changed in 1967 when Edgar Odum took over as director. Documented NEED programs include the community action program proposal, the manpower program, the small business development center, and Neighborhood Youth Corps.
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Subseries 4.11. Choanoke Area Development Association (CADA), 1962-1968.
Arrangement: by function.
ABSTRACT: SERIES 4.11. CHOANOKE AREA DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: Records (about 3,000 items) of the Choanoke Area Development Association (CADA), a North Carolina Fund community action program in Bertie, Halifax, Hertford, and Northampton counties, N.C., in the basin of the Chowan and Roanoke rivers. Included are files documenting CADA's early emphasis on job training. CADA was originally established in 1961 as an area industrial development organization. Also included are files on Head Start, Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC), multi-purpose centers, and other programs. There are also files of the People's Program on Poverty (PPOP), an anti-poverty organization of people, primarily poor and African American, from Bertie, Halifax, Hertford, and Northampton counties. The July 1966 People's Conference on Poverty, sponsored by PPOP, was attended by 500-1,000 people. PPOP received a grant from the North Carolina Fund to support its operation and pursued a program of promoting adult basic education, recreation, sanitation, and low-cost housing.
NOTE: CADA representatives met with representatives of the North Carolina Fund in 1963 and in 1964 submitted a community action agency proposal. CADA's early emphasis was on job training.
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Subseries 4.12. Coastal Progress Inc. (CPI)/Craven Operation Progress
(COP), 1963-1969.
Arrangement: by function.
ABSTRACT: SERIES 4.12. COASTAL PROGRESS Inc.: Records (about 4,000 items) of Coastal Progress Inc. (CPI), a North Carolina Fund community action program in Craven, Jones, and Pamlico counties, N.C. Included are records of Craven Operation Progress (COP), organized in 1964 and, in 1966, combined with Jones County Economic Development Corporation and Pamlico County Economic Development Corporation to form Coastal Progress Inc. These files are especially good for information about administrative policies and procedures and public relations efforts. Programs documented include Neighborhood Youth Corps, adult basic education recruitment, small business development center, day care centers, home management aides, rural environmental sanitation, a federal credit union, and a strawberry marketing co-op.
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Series 5. Manpower Programs, 1964-1972.
Arrangement: by program.
ABSTRACT: SERIES 5. MANPOWER PROGRAMS: Records (about 42,000 items) of manpower programs supported by the North Carolina Fund. Included are Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort (MITCE) headquarters and field staff files, documenting efforts to assist families in meeting their employment and other family needs by using resources available in Nash, Edgecombe, Richmond, Robeson, Scotland, Craven, and Guilford counties, N.C. Proposals and reports give an overview of the program's operation. There are also records of the institutional training and on-the-job-training programs. Mobility program records include proposals, reports, and correspondence concerning a program that recruited unemployed rural people in coastal and mountain counties, developed jobs for them in industrial areas, and assisted them in moving and adapting to their new job and living environments. Files on the Manpower Development Corporation (now MDC Inc.) contain much material relating to operational studies on computer job matching, program planning and budgeting, housing, basic education, industrial training capacity, skill training, Work Oriented Retraining Centers (WORC), New Careers, transportation, and outreach techniques and supportive services in manpower programs.
NOTE: Audiovisual material related to manpower programs may be found in Series 8.3. Note that original file folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.
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Subseries 5.1. Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort (MITCE),
1964-1968.
RESTRICTED: In order to protect the privacy of volunteers, applicants to the volunteer programs, team directors, and clients of the volunteer program, researchers who wish to use files containing information about these people must agree not to identify them in the products of research without written permission from the subjects.
Records of the Durham headquarters staff and of the field staff of the Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort (MITCE) program from the planning stages through the phase-out. Field offices served Nash and Edgecombe counties, the Tri-County area, and Craven County. In 1967, a field office was opened in Greensboro to serve Guilford County. Included are funding proposals and reports that give an overview of the program's operation, statistical reports, files on staff training and conferences, files of the Durham headquarters staff, files of the field offices, records of the institutional training program, records of the on-the-job-training (OJT) program, and forms completed for individual participants.
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Subseries 5.2. Mobility Program, 1965-1968.
Arrangement: by function.
Proposals, progress reports, evaluation reports, and correspondence, concerning a program that recruited unemployed rural people in coastal and mountain counties, developed jobs for them in industrial areas of the state, and assisted them in moving and adapting to new job and living environments.
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Subseries 5.3. Manpower Development Corporation, 1965-1972.
Records of the North Carolina Fund relating to the planning, funding, and operation of the North Carolina Manpower Development Corporation (MDC). Included are various drafts and versions of proposals for funding the Manpower Development Corporation; articles of incorporation and by-laws; minutes and other materials relating to meetings of the steering committee and the Board of Directors; materials created by and for the North Carolina Fund's Committee on Manpower and Economic Development and Ad Hoc Manpower Committee; reports of reviews of the corporation's operation; correspondence; contracts, correspondence, reports, and proposals relating to studies done for the corporation; proposals for projects of the corporation; strategy, discussion, and policy papers; planning documents for a strategy session in June 1968; public information materials, such as articles, speeches, transcripts of press conferences, and issues of Manpower Digest; and administrative material about selection of staff and about the corporation's budget and finances. These materials document the involvement of North Carolina Fund staff, especially Fund executive director George Hyndman Esser (1921- ), in the planning and operation of the Manpower Development Corporation and with manpower planning in North Carolina. The materials found here are not the records of the corporation, but the correspondence with the North Carolina Fund staff about the corporation and materials provided to the Fund by the corporation.
A large amount of material relates to operational studies contracted to Information Science Inc. (ISI) on computer job matching; to the Center for Independent Action (CFIA) on Program Planning and Budgeting, housing, training in basic education, industrial training capacity, and skill training; the U.S. Research & Development Corporation on Work Oriented Retraining Centers (WORC) and New Careers; to Kimley-Horne & Associates on transportation studies; and to the North Carolina Fund on outreach techniques and supportive services in manpower programs. These studies were begun before the MDC was fully operational and were intended to provide an informational basis for its operation.
Correspondence relating to specific studies, proposals, contracts, or issues are filed in subject files. Other correspondence is filed roughly chronologically in the general correspondence. The early correspondence concerns manpower issues before the establishment of the corporation. Letters early in 1967 concern planning for the establishment of the MDC and the appointment of the steering committee and the Board of Directors. Later general correspondence relates mostly to funding, manpower planning, and the establishment of a State Manpower Council in North Carolina.
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Series 6. Research, Planning, and Program Development, 1963-1968.
Arrangement: by project.
ABSTRACT: SERIES 6. RESEARCH, PLANNING, AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT: Correspondence, statistics, notes, drafts, and other materials (about 17,000 items) from research projects and planning and program development. Major projects include a report on poverty in North Carolina; a study of record-keeping in community action programs (CAPs) aimed at producing evaluation information; profiles of community problems in areas served by the 11 Fund-supported CAPs; a survey of attitudes, values, wants, and needs as well as income, education, housing, and health of low-income families in CAP regions; a study of the community action process and decision-making, conflict resolution, and other patterns in CAP communities; and a study of hunger in North Carolina. Also included are records of the Fund's library and history and archives project. These history and archives project records contain information about Fund organization and staffing, transcripts of debriefing interviews with Fund staff, and grant officers' reports on the CAPs.
NOTE: Original file folder titles and original folder order have, for the most part, been retained.
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Subseries 6.1. Correspondence, 1963-1968.
Arrangement: chronological.
Correspondence of Michael Brooks, director of research, William Darity, associate director of program development, and other staff members of the Research, Planning and Program Development Department, including John Strange and Noel Beyle. Early letters, 1963 and 1964, primarily concern departmental staffing and organization or distribution of Brooks's report, "Dimensions of Poverty in North Carolina." Later letters and memoranda discuss review of grant applications, review of reports, evaluation of the community action process, other research projects, and other programs of the North Carolina Fund.
Because of the nature of the work of this department, correspondence about any or all of the North Carolina Fund's programs or about proposed programs may be found here. In files for 1965, there are many letters about the brainstorming sessions held that summer to generate program ideas. In 1966 files, there is considerable material about a conference on research and evaluation of North Carolina Fund programs, as well as material about housing and manpower programs. Major topics in the correspondence in 1967 are manpower, legal services, rural development, and a study on hunger.
| Folder 6683 |
1963 September-December |
| Folder 6684 |
1964 January |
| Folder 6685 |
1964 February |
| Folder 6686 |
1964 March |
| Folder 6687 |
1964 April |
Folder 6688-6689
Folder 6688Folder 6689 |
1964 May |
| Folder 6690 |
1964 June |
| Folder 6691 |
1964 July |
| Folder 6692 |
1964 August |
| Folder 6693 |
1964 September |
Folder 6694-6695
Folder 6694Folder 6695 |
1964 October |
| Folder 6696 |
1964 November |
| Folder 6697 |
1964 December |
| Folder 6698 |
1965 January |
| Folder 6699 |
1965 February |
Folder 6700-6702
Folder 6700Folder 6701Folder 6702 |
1965 March |
| Folder 6703 |
1965 April |
Folder 6704-6705
Folder 6704Folder 6705 |
1965 May |
Folder 6706-6708
Folder 6706Folder 6707Folder 6708 |
1965 June |
Folder 6709-6710
Folder 6709Folder 6710 |
1965 July |
Folder 6711-6712
Folder 6711Folder 6712 |
1965 August |
Folder 6713-6714
Folder 6713Folder 6714 |
1965 September |
Folder 6715-6716
Folder 6715Folder 6716 |
1965 October |
Folder 6717-6718
Folder 6717Folder 6718 |
1965 November |
Folder 6719-6720
Folder 6719Folder 6720 |
1965 December |
| Folder 6721 |
1966 January |
Folder 6722-6723
Folder 6722Folder 6723 |
1966 February |
Folder 6724-6725
Folder 6724Folder 6725 |
1966 March |
Folder 6726-6728
Folder 6726Folder 6727Folder 6728 |
1966 April |
| Folder 6729 |
1966 May |
| Folder 6730 |
1966 June |
Folder 6731-6734
Folder 6731Folder 6732Folder 6733Folder 6734 |
1966 July |
Folder 6735-6736
Folder 6735Folder 6736 |
1966 August |
Folder 6737-6739
Folder 6737Folder 6738Folder 6739 |
1966 September |
Folder 6740-6742
Folder 6740Folder 6741Folder 6742 |
1966 October |
Folder 6743-6745
Folder 6743Folder 6744Folder 6745 |
1966 November |
Folder 6746-6747
Folder 6746Folder 6747 |
1966 December |
Folder 6748-6751
Folder 6748Folder 6749Folder 6750Folder 6751 |
1967 January |
Folder 6752-6754
Folder 6752Folder 6753Folder 6754 |
1967 February |
Folder 6755-6758
Folder 6755Folder 6756Folder 6757Folder 6758 |
1967 March |
Folder 6759-6762
Folder 6759Folder 6760Folder 6761Folder 6762 |
1967 April |
Folder 6763-6766
Folder 6763Folder 6764Folder 6765Folder 6766 |
1967 May |
Folder 6767-6771
Folder 6767Folder 6768Folder 6769Folder 6770Folder 6771 |
1967 June |
Folder 6772-6773
Folder 6772Folder 6773 |
1967 July |
Folder 6774-6775
Folder 6774Folder 6775 |
1967 August |
Folder 6776-6778
Folder 6776Folder 6777Folder 6778 |
1967 September |
Folder 6779-6780
Folder 6779Folder 6780 |
1967 October |
Folder 6781-6782
Folder 6781Folder 6782 |
1967 November |
Folder 6783-6784
Folder 6783Folder 6784 |
1967 December |
| Folder 6785 |
1968 January |
Folder 6786-6787
Folder 6786Folder 6787 |
1968 February |
| Folder 6788 |
1968 March |
| Folder 6789 |
1968 April |
| Folder 6790 |
1968 May |
| Folder 6791 |
1968 June |
| Folder 6792 |
1968 July |
| Folder 6793 |
1968 August |
| Folder 6794 |
September-November 1968 and January 1969 |
Folder 6795-6798
Folder 6795Folder 6796Folder 6797Folder 6798 |
Undated |
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Subseries 6.2. Operation, 1964-1968.
Arrangement: by function.
Reports, schedules, budgets, lists of staff, and other material generated in the operation of the Research Department and the Planning and Program Development Department of the North Carolina Fund.
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Subseries 6.3. Dimensions of Poverty, 1963-1964.
Arrangement: by subject.
Correspondence, statistics, notes, and other material used in preparation of Dimensions of Poverty, a report on poverty in North Carolina, and drafts of the report.
| Folder 6833 |
Dimensions of Poverty in North Carolina, June 1964 |
| Folder 6834 |
Original Draft, December 1963 |
Folder 6835-6837
Folder 6835Folder 6836Folder 6837 |
Distribution |
| Folder 6838 |
Maps |
Folder 6839-6841
Folder 6839Folder 6840Folder 6841 |
North Carolina County Statistics |
| Folder 6842 |
Correspondence |
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Subseries 6.4. Study of Record Keeping System, 1964-1967.
Arrangement: by subject.
Information collected about record-keeping and the records of the community action programs in order to develop a record-keeping system that would generate information needed to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of community action programs.
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Subseries 6.5. Community Profiles, 1964-1967.
Arrangement: by subject.
Data collected, information about data collection, correspondence, and drafts of the community profiles for each community served by a community action program supported by the North Carolina Fund.
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Subseries 6.6. North Carolina Fund Survey of Low-Income Families, 1964-1968.
Arrangement: by subject.
Proposals, reports, correspondence, and other material used in conducting the North Carolina Fund's survey of low-income families, which resulted in two reports--one on characteristics of individuals and one on characteristics of households--for each region served by a North Carolina Fund community action program.
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Subseries 6.7. Community Action Process Analysis, 1965-1969.
Arrangement: by subject.
Proposals, grant requests, reports, background papers, drafts, critiques, and other material related to the North Carolina Fund's study of the community action process.
| Folder 6985 |
Proposals |
| Folder 6986 |
Drafts of Proposals for Process Analysis |
| Folder 6987 |
Grant Requests to OEO |
| Folder 6988 |
Finances |
| Folder 6989 |
Budgets |
| Folder 6990 |
Employment Applications |
| Folder 6991 |
Staff Vitae |
| Folder 6992 |
Consultants |
| Folder 6993 |
Consultants Statements |
| Folder 6994 |
Consultants Reports |
| Folder 6995 |
Notes |
| Folder 6996 |
Correspondence 1964-1966 |
| Folder 6997 |
Correspondence January-May 1967 |
| Folder 6998 |
Correspondence September 1967-January 1969 |
| Folder 6999 |
Framework for Analysis of the Community Action Process |
| Folder 7000 |
Drafts of Appalachia Report |
Folder 7001-7002
Folder 7001Folder 7002 |
"Negroes and the Poverty Program" |
| Folder 7003 |
Perspectives on the War on Poverty |
| Folder 7004 |
Community Organization |
| Folder 7005 |
Draft of Wallace Paper on Participation of the Poor, May 1967 |
| Folder 7006 |
Papers being Prepared |
Folder 7007-7009
Folder 7007Folder 7008Folder 7009 |
Working Papers |
| Folder 7010 |
Report of the Objectives Committee |
| Folder 7011 |
Report of Activities to 27 February 1967 |
| Folder 7012 |
July 1967 Basic Questionnaire |
| Folder 7013 |
Interview Schedule: Board Members Target Area |
| Folder 7014 |
Interview Schedules |
| Folder 7015 |
Basic Information on North Carolina |
| Folder 7016 |
Data on Mental Health in North Carolina |
| Folder 7017 |
Urban Employment |
| Folder 7018 |
Resources |
| Folder 7019 |
Brandeis Study of Community Representation in Community Action Programs |
| Folder 7020 |
Community Action Programs: Board Members |
| Folder 7021 |
Themis House Workshop Transcript |
| Folder 7022 |
Brandeis Study: Basic Data from Questionnaire |
| Folder 7023 |
Workshop on Analysis of the Community Action Process |
| Folder 7024 |
Process Analysis Study (Bill Flowers) |
| Folder 7025 |
Kathleen Futrell, Selected Quotes: The Negro in America |
| Folder 7026 |
Cover Letter |
| Folder 7027 |
Process Analysis: Report Outline |
| Folder 7028 |
Community Action in North Carolina, Part 1: Overview of North Carolina Fund Projects |
| Folder 7029 |
Eliminated from Report: Appalachia |
| Folder 7030 |
Eliminated from Report: Perspectives on the War on Poverty |
| Folder 7031 |
Sullivan Financial Report |
| Folder 7032 |
Maps |
Folder 7033-7034
Folder 7033Folder 7034 |
Part 1: Pursell Comments on Strange's Introduction |
| Folder 7035 |
Domestics United |
| Folder 7036 |
WAMY Process Analysis Material |
| Folder 7037 |
WAMY Field Reports for Process Analysis |
| Folder 7038 |
WAMY Interviews for Process Analysis |
| Folder 7039 |
MPP Review Report |
| Folder 7040 |
MPP Beyle-Nicholson Rewrite of O'Connor Draft |
| Folder 7041 |
MPP Bernholz Draft of Macon History |
| Folder 7042 |
MPP Bob Walker Macon History |
| Folder 7043 |
MPP Field Reports and Other Material |
Folder 7044-7048
Folder 7044Folder 7045Folder 7046Folder 7047Folder 7048 |
MPP Interviews |
| Folder 7049 |
TOC Drafts of Process Analysis Report by Vlasits |
| Folder 7050 |
TOC Reports on TOC and Buncombe County by Pat Wallace |
| Folder 7051 |
TOC Field Reports |
| Folder 7052 |
TOC Board of Directors Meetings, Opportunity Corporation Meetings, and Executive Committee Meetings |
| Folder 7053 |
TOC Correspondence |
Folder 7054-7058
Folder 7054Folder 7055Folder 7056Folder 7057Folder 7058 |
TOC Interviews |
| Folder 7059 |
CAF Interviews |
| Folder 7060 |
CAF Research |
| Folder 7061 |
CAF Community Support Staff Reports |
| Folder 7062 |
SRCSC Research |
| Folder 7063 |
SRCSC Correspondence |
| Folder 7064 |
SRCSC Field Reports |
| Folder 7065 |
SRCSC Reports by Wallace |
Folder 7066-7069
Folder 7066Folder 7067Folder 7068Folder 7069 |
SRCSC Interviews |
| Folder 7070 |
ESR Draft of Process Analysis Report |
| Folder 7071 |
ESR Field Reports |
| Folder 7072 |
ESR Correspondence |
Folder 7073-7074
Folder 7073Folder 7074 |
ESR Interviews |
| Folder 7075 |
NEED Process Analysis Research |
Folder 7076-7079
Folder 7076Folder 7077Folder 7078Folder 7079 |
NEED Interviews |
Folder 7080-7083
Folder 7080Folder 7081Folder 7082Folder 7083 |
NEED CADA-PPO Interviews |
| Folder 7084 |
TCCA Kathy Futrell Interviews |
Folder 7085-7087
Folder 7085Folder 7086Folder 7087 |
TCCA Susan Shull Interviews |
| Folder 7088 |
COP Drafts of Process Analysis Report by Vlasits |
Folder 7089-7094
Folder 7089Folder 7090Folder 7091Folder 7092Folder 7093Folder 7094 |
COP Interviews |
Folder 7095-7099
Folder 7095Folder 7096Folder 7097Folder 7098Folder 7099 |
COP OBT Interviews |
| Folder 7100 |
Part I: Introduction |
| Folder 7101 |
Part I: Process Analysis |
| Folder 7102 |
Part I: Miller Paper |
| Folder 7103 |
Part II: Introduction |
| Folder 7104 |
Part II: WAMY |
| Folder 7105 |
Part II: MPP |
| Folder 7106 |
Part II: TOC |
| Folder 7107 |
Part II: CAF |
| Folder 7108 |
Part II: SRCSC |
| Folder 7109 |
Part II: ESR |
| Folder 7110 |
Part II: NEED |
| Folder 7111 |
Part II: CADA |
| Folder 7112 |
Part II: TCCA |
| Folder 7113 |
Part II: COP |
| Folder 7114 |
Part III: Introduction |
| Folder 7115 |
Part III: OBT History |
| Folder 7116 |
Part III: Educational Establishment |
| Folder 7117 |
Part III: The Forum Report |
| Folder 7118 |
Part III: Pursell's Crisis and Conflict |
| Folder 7119 |
Part III: Beginnings of CO in OBT |
| Folder 7120 |
Part III: Greenberg Housing Controversy |
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Part III: Review and Assessment of OBT |
| Folder 7123 |
Part III: History of UOCI |
| Folder 7124 |
Part III: History of FCD |
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Subseries 6.8. Hunger Study, 1963-1968.
Arrangement: by subject.
Material relating to a study of hunger in North Carolina. Also included are items from Fund Executive Director George Hyndman Esser (1921- )'s service on a board of inquiry on hunger in the United States and its report.
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Subseries 6.9. North Carolina Fund Library, 1963-1969.
Records of the North Carolina Fund Library, including correspondence, descriptions, guides, bibliographies, and lists of materials in the library.
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Subseries 6.10. History and Archives (H & A) Project, 1968-1969.
Arrangement: by subject.
Records of the History and Archives (H & A) Project, established to help document the successes and failures of the North Carolina Fund and its programs. The first part of this series contains descriptions of the project and project staff, lists of reports produced, and descriptions of contents of the archives. The series also contains information about the organization and staffing of the North Carolina Fund, transcripts of debriefing interviews with North Carolina Fund staff, and grant officers' reports on aspects of the community action agencies. Also included are research papers produced by students or others not employed by the North Carolina Fund. The later part of the series contains drafts of reports produced and, in some cases, notes, correspondence, and critiques of the reports.
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Series 7. Study Committees, 1962-1968.
Arrangement: by committee.
ABSTRACT: SERIES 7. STUDY COMMITTEES: Leadership Training Committee records (about 500 items) document community leadership development laboratories, the Urban Training Center, and Affiliated Training and Action Centers (ATAC) for New Mission. Voter Education Project (VEP) Committee records (about 700 items) include items from the Southern Regional Council's Voter Education Project; brochures on government and voter registration; information on African-Americans in political office and Congressional redistricting; and proposals for citizen education and a Bertie County Voter Education Project. Education Study Committee records (about 1,500 items) include information on the Comprehensive School Improvement Program (CSIP), 1964; the Learning Institute of North Carolina (LINC), 1964-1968; the Advancement School; a Regional Education Laboratory proposal, 1966; and school drop-outs, 1962. Legal Services and Consumer Education Study Committee records (about 1,000 items) include materials on legal problems of the poor, a summer legal intern program, and producer and consumer co-ops, the latter proposed by Floyd McKissick's N.C. Leadership Conference on Economic Development. Housing Committee records (about 1,500 items) include materials on the Low-Income Housing Development Corporation (LIHDC) and a computer-aided design system to produce good, cheap housing. Committee on Manpower and Economic Development (COMED) records (about 5,000 items) include a 1967 food price survey and 1966-1968 cost-benefit study of the Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort (MITCE) program.
NOTE: Original file folder titles and original folder order have, for the most part, been retained.
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Subseries 7.1. Leadership Training Committee, 1965-1967.
Arrangement: by function.
Plans, proposals, and related research and position papers, mostly produced in 1966, of the Leadership Training Committee. Included are correspondence, proposals, minutes of meetings, announcements, and lists of participants for laboratories in community leadership development; minutes of meetings of the leadership training steering committee and task force about a leadership training center; the report of the Leadership Training Study, 3 February 1967; information on the Urban Training Center; a proposal for Affiliated Training and Action Centers (ATAC) for New Mission; and other materials.
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Subseries 7.2. Voter Education Project (VEP), 1964-1968.
Arrangement: by function.
Records of the Voter Education Project (VEP) committee include newsletters, brochures, and reports of the Southern Regional Council's (SRC) Voter Education Project; brochures on North Carolina government and voter registration published by the North Carolina Voter Education Project (NCVEP); voter handbooks; information on voter registration, blacks in political office, and Congressional redistricting; information on meetings of the steering committee and the Voter Education Council; proposals for citizen education and for a Bertie County Voter Education Project; reports of the North Carolina Voter Education Project, 1967 and 1968; and correspondence relating to voter education.
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Subseries 7.3. Education Study Committee, 1962-1968.
Arrangement: by function.
Records of the Education Study Committee include correspondence, reports, and proposals of the committee and files, 1964, on the Comprehensive School Improvement Program (CSIP); files, 1964-1968, on the Learning Institute of North Carolina (LINC); materials about the Advancement School; and a proposal, 1966, for a Regional Education Laboratory. The earliest item is a 1962 report on school drop-outs in North Carolina. Much of the material in the general committee files appears to have been generated by Bill Flowers, the North Carolina Fund staff person for education. Included are memos to and from Flowers, his reviews of proposals and reports on meetings, and notes for presentations by Flowers.
The Comprehensive School Improvement Program files include proposals, directories, correspondence, progress reports, publications, magazine articles, and newsletters.
The records of the Learning Institute of North Carolina include articles of incorporation, a report on its origins, proposals to LINC, a paper and reports on the Technical Assistance Program, reports, brochures, and correspondence of North Carolina fund staff about funding LINC. There is also a report on an audit and inventory of the Advancement School, as well as a newsletter, brochures, clippings, and a narrative report.
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Subseries 7.4. Legal Services and Consumer Education, 1965-1968.
Arrangement: by function.
Records of the study committee on legal services and consumer education include reports and studies, materials related to a law school course on legal problems of the poor, a proposal and reports of a summer legal intern program, a proposal for consumer co-ops, and materials relating to producer co-ops. The reports and studies focus on legal problems of the poor, the structure and operation of rural legal services, and the rights of the indigent. The course materials on the legal problems of the poor were developed by Kenneth Penegar, assistant professor in the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The course was taught at North Carolina Central University in Durham. The organization of consumer cooperatives was proposed by the North Carolina Leadership Conference on Economic Development, led by Floyd B. McKissick (1922-1991).
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Subseries 7.5. Intergovernmental Relations Study Committee, 1966-1967.
Arrangement: by function.
Records of the Intergovernmental Relations Study Committee include correspondence, financial information, articles on intergovernmental relations, a paper on special conditions imposed by the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) on grants to community action programs, and a paper on the State Technical Assistance office.
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Subseries 7.6. Housing Study Committee, 1965-1968.
Arrangement: by function.
Records of the Housing Committee include correspondence, budgets, reports, and proposals about housing issues plus material on the formation of the Low-Income Housing Development Corporation (LIHDC) and on a study to develop a computer-aided design system to produce good, cheap housing. LIHDC material includes proposals, policies, administrative material, OEO grants, and background information on housing and communities. The computer-aided design study relates to work done by Arthur Cogswell. Related material may be found in Series 1.9.
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Subseries 7.7. Committee on Manpower and Economic Development (COMED),
1965-1968.
Arrangement: by function.
Records of the Committee on Manpower and Economic Development (COMED) contain reports, correspondence, and proposals related to manpower and economic development planning in North Carolina; the report of and material used during a food price survey conducted in 1967; and materials produced, 1966-1968, in the course of a cost-benefit study of the Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort (MITCE) program. Of particular interest is a position paper on the need for manpower planning in North Carolina. The food price survey material includes questionnaires, lists of stores surveyed, descriptions of methods, materials about the consumer price index, reports of food prices and budgets, and findings of the survey, in addition to the final report. The MITCE cost-benefit study material includes proposals, correspondence, reports of interviewers, and instructions for coders and interviewers. See Series 5 for additional information about manpower programs.
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Subseries 7.8. Health and Welfare Study Committee, 1967.
Monthly budget reports, April-September 1967, showing expenditures and balances of the Health and Welfare Study Committee.
| Folder 8082 |
Monthly Budget Reports |
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Series 8. Public Information Department, 1963-1968.
Arrangement: by function.
ABSTRACT: SERIES 8. PUBLIC INFORMATION DEPARTMENT: Records (about 9,000 items) of the Public Information Department include files of Billy Barnes and other staff members about Fund press and public relations; assistance to community action programs through public information efforts; and Fund publications, films, slide shows, radio shows, and other efforts. Much of the 1967 correspondence deals with press coverage of attacks on the Fund by Representatives Jim Gardner and Nick Galiafanakis. There are also records of a special project that assembled packets of article reprints on poverty and race and mailed them to community leaders throughout the state. Also included are audiotapes, films, radio show transcripts, film scripts, and of some slide shows. Films include No Handouts for Mrs. Hedgepeth (28-minutes, color, April 1968) on the life of a domestic worker in Durham, N.C.; a film explaining the Fund's program; and a film about the summer anti-poverty work of the 100 North Carolina Volunteers in 1964. In 1967, the Public Information Department produced a weekly radio show, "New Voices in Carolina," and distributed it to 35 North Carolina stations. For each show, John Morgan interviewed people participating in anti-poverty work as clients, staff, or volunteers.
NOTE: Original file folder titles and original folder order have, for the most part, been retained.
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Subseries 8.1. Correspondence, 1963/1969.
Arrangement: chronological.
Chiefly correspondence of Billy Barnes about the work of the Public Information Department. Topics include public relations for the North Carolina Fund; helping the community action programs with their public information efforts; press coverage of North Carolina Fund activities; and programs, publications, films, slide shows, radio shows, the packet project, and other efforts of the Public Information Department. In 1967, much correspondence deals with press coverage of attacks on the North Carolina Fund by Representatives Jim Gardner and Nick Galiafanakis.
| Folder 8083 |
1963 July-December |
| Folder 8084 |
1964 January-April |
| Folder 8085 |
1964 May |
| Folder 8086 |
1964 June-July |
| Folder 8087 |
1964 August-September |
| Folder 8088 |
1964 October |
| Folder 8089 |
1964 November |
| Folder 8090 |
1964 December |
| Folder 8091 |
1965 January |
| Folder 8092 |
1965 February |
| Folder 8093 |
1965 March |
| Folder 8094 |
1965 April |
| Folder 8095 |
1965 May |
| Folder 8096 |
1965 June |
| Folder 8097 |
1965 July |
| Folder 8098 |
1965 August |
| Folder 8099 |
1965 September |
| Folder 8100 |
1965 October |
| Folder 8101 |
1965 November-December |
| Folder 8102 |
1966 January |
| Folder 8103 |
1966 February |
| Folder 8104 |
1966 March |
| Folder 8105 |
1966 April |
| Folder 8106 |
1966 May |
| Folder 8107 |
1966 June |
| Folder 8108 |
1966 July |
| Folder 8109 |
1966 August |
| Folder 8110 |
1966 September |
| Folder 8111 |
1966 October |
| Folder 8112 |
1966 November |
| Folder 8113 |
1966 December |
Folder 8114-8115
Folder 8114Folder 8115 |
1967 January |
Folder 8116-8117
Folder 8116Folder 8117 |
1967 February |
Folder 8118-8120
Folder 8118Folder 8119Folder 8120 |
1967 March |
Folder 8121-8123
Folder 8121Folder 8122Folder 8123 |
1967 April |
Folder 8124-8125
Folder 8124Folder 8125 |
1967 May |
Folder 8126-8127
Folder 8126Folder 8127 |
1967 June |
Folder 8128-8129
Folder 8128Folder 8129 |
1967 July |
Folder 8130-8131
Folder 8130Folder 8131 |
1967 August |
Folder 8132-8133
Folder 8132Folder 8133 |
1967 September |
| Folder 8134 |
1967 October |
Folder 8135-8136
Folder 8135Folder 8136 |
1967 November |
| Folder 8137 |
1967 December |
| Folder 8138 |
Undated |
| Folder 8139 |
1968 January |
| Folder 8140 |
1968 February |
| Folder 8141 |
1968 March |
| Folder 8142 |
1968 April |
Folder 8143-8144
Folder 8143Folder 8144 |
1968 May |
Folder 8145-8146
Folder 8145Folder 8146 |
1968 June |
Folder 8147-8148
Folder 8147Folder 8148 |
1968 July |
| Folder 8149 |
1968 August |
| Folder 8150 |
1968 September |
| Folder 8151 |
1968 October |
| Folder 8152 |
1968 November |
| Folder 8153 |
1968 December |
| Folder 8154 |
1969 January |
| Folder 8155 |
Undated |
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Subseries 8.2. Subject Files, 1963-1968.
Arrangement: by subject.
Records other than correspondence of the Public Information Department of the North Carolina Fund. Included are annual reports of the North Carolina Fund, personnel rosters, reports, plans, records of services to communities and organizations, press releases, newsletters, articles, publications, training material produced for a seminar on public information for community action agencies, and descriptions of films about poverty.
A special project of the Public Information Department assembled packets of reprints of articles on poverty and race and mailed the packets to community leaders throughout North Carolina. The materials contained in three such packets are found here.
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Subseries 8.3. Audiovisual Material, 1963-1968.
Arrangement: by format.
Audio recordings and motion picure films made by the Public Information Department, including social welfare documentary films about the North Carolina Fund and audio recordings of interviews, board meetings, and radio shows. Also included are related materials that correspond to the audio and motion picture film found in the series. These materials consist of scripts of the films, slide shows, and transcripts of the radio shows.
The best-known of the films made by the North Carolina Fund is No Handouts for Mrs. Hedgepeth, a 28-minute color film made in April 1968 about the life of a domestic worker in Durham, N.C. The film won a gold medal at the Atlanta International Film Festival as the best social welfare documentary. Other films were a 24-minute black-and-white film explaining the program of the North Carolina Fund, which was shown on television and to civic groups, and a 30-minute black-and-white film about the summer anti-poverty work of the 100 North Carolina Volunteers in 1964, which was used to recruit students for the 1965 Volunteers program.
In 1967, the Public Information Department produced a weekly radio show, "New Voices in Carolina," and distributed it to 35 stations in North Carolina. Each show consisted of a 4-1/2 minute vignette in which John Morgan interviewed people participating in anti-poverty work as clients, staff, or volunteers. Scripts and tapes from the series are also found here.
Many of the audiotapes relate to the work of other departments of the North Carolina Fund.
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Subseries 8.3.1. Audio Recordings, 1963-1968.
Arrangement: by project.
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Subseries 8.3.1A. Audio Recordings, circa 1964-1970 (Addition of October 1996).
Acquisitions Information: Accessions 96137
| Audiotape T-4710/283 |
Meeting with Floyd McKissick on co-ops, October 19651/4" Open Reel Audio |
| Audiotape T-4710/284 |
Meeting with Floyd McKissick on co-ops, October 19651/4" Open Reel Audio |
| Audiotape T-4710/285 |
"People's Conference on Poverty," Howard Fuller, July 19661/4" Open Reel Audio |
| Audiotape T-4710/286 |
Tape 5 & 61/4" Open Reel Audio |
| Audiotape T-4710/287 |
Mon PM #21/4" Open Reel Audio |
| Audiocassette C-4710/1 |
John Ehle: tape 1Audiocassette |
| Audiocassette C-4710/2 |
John Ehle: tape 2Audiocassette |
| Audiocassette C-4710/3 |
Terry SanfordAudiocassette |
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Subseries 8.3.2. Motion Picture Film, 1964-1968.
Arrangement: Alphabetical.
| Film F-4710/43a-43b |
Doing Things TogetherFilmstrip with audio |
| Film F-4710/2 |
Economic Opportunity Act of 196416mm motion picutre film |
| Film F-4710/3 |
The First One Hundred, release print16mm motion picutre film |
| Film F-4710/4 |
The First One Hundred, answer print #116mm motion picutre film |
| Film F-4710/6 |
The First One Hundred, trims and outs16mm motion picutre film |
Film F-4710/7-12
F-4710/7F-4710/8F-4710/9F-4710/10F-4710/11F-4710/12 |
The First One Hundred, workprints16mm motion picutre film |
| Film F-4710/46 |
The First One Hundred, release print16mm motion picutre film Processing information: Added to finding in May 2017 |
Film F-4710/47-48
F-4710/47F-4710/48 |
The First One Hundred, A & B rolls16mm motion picutre film Processing information: Added to finding in May 2017 |
| Film F-4710/49 |
The First One Hundred, negative16mm motion picutre film Processing information: Added to finding in May 2017 |
| Film F-4710/50 |
The First One Hundred, negative optical track16mm motion picutre film Processing information: Added to finding in May 2017 |
| Film F-4710/51 |
The First One Hundred, fine grain master16mm motion picutre film Preservation element created by Cineric, Inc. in 2009 Processing information: Added to finding in May 2017 |
| Film F-4710/52 |
The First One Hundred, dupe negative16mm motion picutre film Preservation element created by Cineric, Inc. in 2009 Processing information: Added to finding in May 2017 |
| Film F-4710/53 |
The First One Hundred, access print16mm motion picutre film Projection composite print created by Cineric, Inc. in 2009 Processing information: Added to finding in May 2017 |
| Film F-4710/29 |
No Handouts for Mrs. Hedgepeth, print #V-G16mm motion picutre film |
| Film F-4710/30 |
No Handouts for Mrs. Hedgpeth, trims and outs16mm motion picutre film |
Film F-4710/31-35
F-4710/31F-4710/32F-4710/33F-4710/34F-4710/35 |
No Handouts for Mrs. Hedgepeth, workprints16mm motion picutre film |
| Film F-4710/45 |
No Handouts for Mrs. Hedgepeth, print #V A-116mm motion picutre film Processing information: Added to finding in May 2017 |
| Film F-4710/1 |
North Carolina Fund, print A16mm motion picutre film |
| Film F-4710/36 |
North Carolina Fund, 8 Minute Fund Flick16mm motion picutre film |
| Film F-4710/44 |
North Carolina Fund: A New Source of Hope For People of Poverty, print I-J16mm motion picutre film Processing information: Added to finding in May 2017 |
| Film F-4710/5 |
North Carolina Volunteers 1965, Mrs. Dan K. Moore, WTVD16mm motion picutre film |
Film F-4710/13-21
F-4710/13F-4710/14F-4710/15F-4710/16F-4710/17F-4710/18F-4710/19F-4710/20F-4710/21 |
North Carolina Volunteers 1965, workprints |
| Film F-4710/39 |
North Carolina Volunteers 1965: Mid-Summer Spot16mm motion picutre film |
| Film F-4710/40 |
North Carolina Volunteers: Jim Beatty16mm motion picutre film |
| Film F-4710/22 |
Questions16mm motion picutre film |
Film F-4710/23-27
F-4710/23F-4710/24F-4710/25F-4710/26F-4710/27 |
Questions, workprints16mm motion picutre film |
| Film F-4710/28 |
Questions, trims and outs16mm motion picutre film |
| Film F-4710/42 |
TV Spots Produced by the North Carolina Fund16mm motion picutre film |
| Film F-4710/38 |
VISTA & ESR Programs16mm motion picutre film |
| Film F-4710/41 |
VISTA Spot #216mm motion picutre film |
| Film F-4710/37 |
WAMY Programs: NYC, Headstart, Work-Study16mm motion picutre film |
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Subseries 8.3.3. Related Materials, 1963-1968.
Related materials that correspond to the audio and motion picture film found in the series. Materials consist of scripts of the films, slide shows, and transcripts of the radio shows.
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Series 8A. Public Information Department, circa 1964-1970 (Addition of June 2009).
Acquisitions Information: Accessions 101118
Processing Note: The creator's original arrangement has been retained. Folder titles were derived from original folder names and from descriptive metadata found within the files by the processing archivists.
Duplicates of records in the original deposit were removed by the processing archivists.
The addition consists of miscellaneous records of Billy E. Barnes, a white photographer and the Public Information Director for the North Carolina Fund from 1964 to 1969. Included are Blueprint for Opportunity newsletters, news articles and other printed materials, reports, a proposal, and transcripts of interviews conducted by John Morgan, a Public Relations staff member. The interviews were for a series of radio programs about the lives of people with low income and their involvement in anti-poverty programs. The interviews were edited to three to four minute radio spots that aired as a series, "New Voices in Carolina," on 42 radio stations.
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Series 9. Financial Records, 1964-1970.
Note that original file folder titles and original folder order have, for the most part, been retained.
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Subseries 9.1. Audit Reports, 1964-1970.
Arrangement: by agency, then chronological.
This series contains reports on annual audits conducted by local CPA firms of the overall financial condition of the North Carolina Fund, an audit by the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) of the Fund's administration of funds received from OEO, and an audit by the U.S. Dept. of Labor of the Fund's manpower contracts.
| Folder 8482 |
Audit Schedule |
| Folder 8483 |
Audit Reports 30 September 1964 |
| Folder 8484 |
Audit Reports 30 September 1965 |
| Folder 8485 |
Audit Reports 30 September 1966 |
| Folder 8486 |
Audit Reports 30 September 1967 |
| Folder 8487 |
Audit Reports 30 September 1968 |
| Folder 8488 |
Audit Reports 30 September 1969 |
| Folder 8489 |
Audit Reports 30 April 1970 |
Folder 8490-8491
Folder 8490Folder 8491 |
OEO Audit Report |
Folder 8492-8494
Folder 8492Folder 8493Folder 8494 |
U.S. Dept. of Labor Audit Report |
| Folder 8495 |
U.S. Dept. of Labor Audit Report Carroll Leggett |
| Folder 8496 |
U.S. Dept. of Labor Audit Report Lloyd L. Thompson |
| Folder 8497 |
U.S. Dept. of Labor Audit Report DeLois Jones |
| Folder 8498 |
MITCE: Travel Expenses |
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Subseries 9.2. Correspondence and Other Material, 1964-1970.
Arrangement: by function.
Financial reports, budgets, balance sheets, correspondence, policy statements, controller's files, tax returns, contracts, insurance records, and other financial records of the North Carolina Fund and financial material related to projects supported by the Fund. Original file folder titles and original folder order have, for the most part, been retained.
Financial reports are primarily reports on audits of the community action programs (CAPs). The years for which reports are present varies with the program. Also included are a final financial report to the Ford Foundation and monthly statements of the assets and liabilities of the North Carolina Fund. Budgets, statements of receipts and expenditures for departments within the Fund, correspondence of the financial staff, and statements of financial policies, are also found here.
Varied amounts and kinds of materials related to grants and contracts administered by the North Carolina Fund are filed under the name of the grant or contract. The last files in this series relate to the phase-out of North Carolina Fund programs, such matters closing accounts, issuing final checks, receiving final reports, and other actions necessary to end the Fund's operation.
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Series 10A. Miscellaneous Administrative Records of Carroll Leggett, circa 1964-1970 (Addition
of October 1996).
Acquisitions Information: Accessions 96137
Processing Note: The creator's original arrangement has been retained. Folder titles were derived from original folder names and from descriptive metadata found within the files by the processing archivist.
Reports, speeches, press releases, photographs, and other materials created by Carroll H. Leggett and others at the North Carolina Fund.
| Box 661 |
Administrative records"North Carolina Fund Trains Community Action Technicians by Carroll Leggett" General Background Regarding Atlantic Coast Stream Migrants North Carolina Fund Library Library Guide Greensboro Daily News, "N.C. Fund Assaults Cycle of Poverty" Craven County Agricultural Extension Service Craven County, North Carolina Subcontractor to Craven Operation Progress, Inc. Community Action Proposal Approved November 24th, 1964 by United States Office of Economic Opportunity "Why Should the Poor be Involved in the War on Poverty?" by Morris H. Cohen Director of Training The North Carolina Fund Advisory Letter #4 July,1965 Course Outline and Readings for C.A.T. Training Course Minutes Senior Staff Meeting Quail Roost, March 26, 1965 The North Carolina Fund Memorandum," March 25, 1965 North Carolina Volunteers |
Administrative records"Agenda Item II Fund Administration Recommendations from Executive Director" Agenda Item IV Agenda Item IV, Program Development Exhibit III Exhibit IV Request for Alterations Appropriation Exhibit VIII North Carolina Volunteers 1965 Agenda Item IV Exhibit IX Exhibit X Request for Grant Exhibit XII Additional Insurance Coverage North Carolina Volunteers May 26 Board of Directors Meeting, Exhibit XIV May 26 Board of Directors Meeting, Exhibit XV May 26 Board of Directors Meeting, Exhibit XVI Progress Reports Eleven Project Communities May 18, 1965 Contract No. 82-32-30 Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort North Carolina Fund |
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Administrative recordsPreliminary Guide For Community Action Program Proposals Senior Staff Meeting April 26, 1965 "What can 250 college students do to 'break the cycle of poverty' in North Carolina?" "The First Meow" Summer Comments: 1965 |
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Administrative recordsProgram Proposals for Dealing with the Problems of Poverty Wilson Library Correspondence CAT Charts-Project: drafts of communications NC Fund Staff Conference Harnett County "Copies of Work": communications, press releases, Manpower printed materials, Carroll Leggett |
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Manpower, Improvement Through Community Effort Training Manual" |
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| Box 662 |
Equipment |
NC Fund (Folder containing miscellaneous documents and correspondence) |
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A Survey of Opinion In North Carolina Regarding Racial Problems and Programs Volume II-Volume VI Study #1097 |
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A Survey of Opinion In North Carolina Regarding Racial Problems and Programs Volume VII-Volume IX Study #1097 |
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A Survey of Opinion In North Carolina Regarding Racial Problems and Programs Volume X-Volume XII Study #1097 |
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Correspondence and Fiscal Reports, 1966-1968 |
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Series 8 Ballance, Paul S.-Forsyth County: Public Library System |
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Staff Review Questions |
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Training Center--University of North Carolina Law School |
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"Dignity of their Own," by William H. Koch Jr. (Manuscript) |
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Correspondence, Budgets, Memos |
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Memos and Letters, 1964-1967 |
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| Box 663 |
Memos and Letters, 1965-1968 |
Newsletters |
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Image Folder PF-04710/1-2
PF-04710/1PF-04710/2 |
Maps of North Carolina for presentation, circa 1960sblack-and-white 35mm slides 33 images Slides are numbered. See also Series 6.11A Research D-2. |
Image Folder PF-04710/3-8
PF-04710/3PF-04710/4PF-04710/5PF-04710/6PF-04710/7PF-04710/8 |
Community development laboratory in Banner Elk, N.C., circa 1960sblack-and-white photographic prints 50 images Images depict Black school aged children in classroom settings with Black and white teachers. Also included are images depicting meetings with Black and white community members and NC Fund staff. See also Series 7. |
| Image Folder PF-04710/9 |
Jack Mansfield, January 1965black-and-white photographic prints 2 images See also Series 2.4 Department of Special Projects. |
Image Folder PF-04710/10-15
PF-04710/10PF-04710/11PF-04710/12PF-04710/13PF-04710/14PF-04710/15 |
VISTA: Staff photographs by Tom Rogers (Negatives)black-and-white 35mm roll film 100 images Selected contact sheets are in PF-40710/16. |
| Image Folder PF-04710/16 |
VISTA: Staff photographs by Tom Rogers (Negatives)black-and-white photographic prints (proof sheets) 5 images Selected contact sheets from negatives PF-40710/10-15. |
| Image Folder PF-04710/17 |
VISTA II: Trainees, April 1965black-and-white photographic print 1 image Folder read: "Group Photograph: VISTA II." |
Image Folder PF-04710/18-20
PF-04710/18PF-04710/19PF-04710/20 |
VISTA VI: Staff photographs by Billy E. Barnes (Negatives)black-and-white photographic prints (proof sheets) 120 images Selected contact sheets from negatives PF-04710/21. |
| Image Folder PF-04710/21 |
VISTA VI:Staff photographs by Billy E. Barnesblack-and-white photographic prints, handwritten notes 1 image Folder read: "photos VISTA VI B-13." Includes notes about images in folders PF-04710/18-20. |
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