Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#4710
NORTH CAROLINA FUND RECORDS
Table of Contents:
Abstracts
General Abstract
Administrative Series Abstract
Volunteer Programs Series Abstract
Training Programs Series Abstract
Community Action Programs Series Abstracts
Charlotte Area Fund Abstract
Choanoke Area Development Association Abstract
Coastal Progress, Inc., Abstract
Experiment for Self-Reliance Abstract
Macon Program for Progress Abstract
Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development Abstract
Operation Breakthrough Abstract
The Opportunity Corporation Abstract
Salisbury-Rowan Community Service Council Abstract
Tri-County Community Action Abstract
WAMY Community Action, Inc., Abstract
Manpower Programs Series Abstract
Research Department Series Abstract
Study Committees Series Abstract
Public Information Department Series Abstract
Introduction
Historical Note
Collection Overview
Series Descriptions
Series 1. Administration
Series 2. Volunteer Programs
Series 3. Training Programs
Series 4. Community Action Programs
Series 5. Manpower Programs
Series 6. Research, Planning and Program Development
Department
Series 7. Study Committees
Series 8. Public Information Department
Series 9. Financial Records
Shelf List
Size: About 187,000 items (330.0 linear feet).
Provenance: Received from North Carolina Fund in 1969 and from
George Esser in 1977.
Access: RESTRICTED (Subseries 2.1.2; 2.1.3; 2.1.4; 3.5; 5.1):
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.
RESTRICTED (Subseries 8.3): Use of materials in this
series may require production of listening and/or
viewing copies.
Processing Note: This collection was processed with support, in
part, from the National Endowment for the
Humanities, Division of Preservation and
Access.
Related Collections: Terry Sanford Papers (#3531);
John Ehle Papers (#4555);
Youth Education Services (YES) Records
(#3807);
North Carolina Fund Scrapbooks, North
Carolina Collection, UNC-CH;
Billy Barnes Photograph Collection, North
Carolina Collection, UNC-CH.
Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
their descendants, as stipulated by United States
copyright law.
ABSTRACTS
GENERAL ABSTRACT:
The North Carolina Fund, an independent, non-profit,
charitable corporation, sought and dispensed funds to fight
poverty in North Carolina, 1963-1968. Gov. 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. Department 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.
Records of the North Carolina Fund, primarily the files of the
central office staff, especially executive director George
Hyndman Esser (1921- ), and records of the Manpower Improvement
Through Community Effort (MITCE) Program. Among the programs
documented are the North Carolina Volunteers; training of
community action technicians (CAT) to work in North Carolina and
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 programs funded by the North
Carolina Fund, chief among them the 11 community action agencies
and the projects they operated. Two grassroots organizations of
poor people also received financial support from the North
Carolina Fund, as did programs to improve education in North
Carolina, manpower programs, and low-income housing programs.
Records related to attacks on the North Carolina Fund's programs
shed light on politics and race relations, as well as on economic
and social conditions in North Carolina in the 1960s.
Online Catalog Terms:
Community Action Program (U.S.).
Community development--North Carolina.
Community development corporations--North Carolina.
Community development personnel--Training of--North Carolina.
Community leadership--North Carolina.
Community power--North Carolina.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Economic development--North Carolina.
Educational innovations--North Carolina.
Esser, George H.
Ford Foundation.
Housing--North Carolina.
Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort.
Manpower policy--North Carolina.
North Carolina--Economic conditions.
North Carolina Fund.
North Carolina--Politics and government--1951-
North Carolina--Social conditions.
North Carolina--Race relations.
North Carolina Volunteers.
Poor--Health and hygiene--North Carolina.
Poor--Housing--North Carolina.
Poor--Societies, etc.--North Carolina.
Poor--North Carolina.
Poverty--North Carolina.
Poverty--Research--North Carolina.
Sanford, Terry, 1917- .
Volunteers in Service to America.
Volunteer workers in community development--North Carolina.
ADMINISTRATIVE SERIES ABSTRACT:
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.
Online Catalog Terms:
Afro-Americans--North Carolina--Attitudes.
Community development--Finance--North Carolina.
Community development personnel--Political activity--North
Carolina.
Craven County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Craven Operation Progress.
Durham (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Economic development--North Carolina.
Edgecombe County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Educational innovations--North Carolina.
Esser, George H.
Ford Foundation.
Foundation for Community Development.
Gardner, James Carson, 1933- .
Housing--North Carolina.
How North Carolina Whites and Blacks View: Each Other,
Government and Police, Housing, Poverty, Education, and
Employment.
Low-Income Housing Development Corporation of North Carolina.
Nash County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development.
North Carolina--Race relations.
North Carolina Voter Education Project.
North Carolina Fund.
Occupational training--North Carolina.
Race relations--North Carolina.
Rural development--North Carolina.
Social surveys--North Carolina.
State of Franklin Health Council, Inc.
United States. Office of Economic Opportunity.
Voters--Education--North Carolina.
Whites--North Carolina--Attitudes.
VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS SERIES ABSTRACT:
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.
Online Catalog Terms:
Afro-American college students--North Carolina.
College students--North Carolina.
Community development--North Carolina.
Community development--Citizen participation--North Carolina.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900- .
Migrant labor--North Carolina--Health and hygiene.
North Carolina--Race relations.
North Carolina Fund.
North Carolina Outward Bound School.
North Carolina Volunteers.
Outward Bound schools--North Carolina.
Public health personnel--Training of--North Carolina.
Tutors and tutoring--North Carolina.
Upward Bound.
Volunteer workers in community development--North Carolina.
Women Volunteers in the War on Poverty.
Women volunteers in social service--North Carolina.
Voluntarism--North Carolina.
Youth Educational Services.
TRAINING PROGRAMS SERIES ABSTRACT:
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 UNC; 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.
Online Catalog Terms:
Afro-American college students--North Carolina.
Catawba College--Students.
College students--North Carolina.
Community development--North Carolina.
Community development--Citizen participation--North Carolina.
Community development personnel--Training of--North Carolina.
Draft--United States.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Fuller, Howard.
Internship programs--North Carolina.
Livingstone College--Students.
Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.).
North Carolina Central University--History.
North Carolina College at Durham--Students.
North Carolina Fund.
Shaw University--Students.
Saint Augustine's College (Raleigh, N.C.)--Students.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Students.
Volunteers in Service to America.
COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS SERIES ABSTRACTS:
CHARLOTTE AREA FUND ABSTRACT:
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.
Online Catalog Terms:
Charlotte (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Charlotte Area Fund.
Charlotte Bureau of Employment, Training, and Placement.
Community Action Program (U.S.).
Community centers--North Carolina.
Community development--North Carolina.
Community organization--North Carolina.
Community power--North Carolina.
Domestics United.
Domestics--North Carolina.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Economic development projects--North Carolina.
Job creation--North Carolina.
Legal assistance to the poor--North Carolina.
North Carolina Fund.
Occupational training--North Carolina
Opportunities Industrialization Center (Charlotte, N.C.).
School integration--North Carolina.
United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.
Urban renewal--North Carolina.
Vocational education--North Carolina.
WBTV (Telvision station : Charlotte, N.C.).
CHOANOKE AREA DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ABSTRACT:
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.
Online Catalog Terms:
Adult education--North Carolina.
Afro-Americans--North Carolina--Social conditions.
Bertie County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Choanoke Area Development Association.
Community Action Program (U.S.).
Community centers--North Carolina.
Community development--North Carolina.
Community organization--North Carolina.
Community organization--Citizen participation--North Carolina.
Community power--North Carolina.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Economic development projects--North Carolina.
Halifax County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Head Start programs--North Carolina.
Hertford County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Housing--North Carolina.
Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.).
North Carolina Fund.
Northampton County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Occupational training--North Carolina.
People's Conference on Poverty (Woodland, N.C. : 30 July
1966).
People's Program on Poverty.
Recreation--North Carolina.
Rural sanitation--North Carolina.
Sanitation--North Carolina.
COASTAL PROGRESS, INC., ABSTRACT:
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.
Online Catalog Terms:
Adult education--North Carolina.
Coastal Progress, Inc.
Community Action Program (U.S.).
Community development--North Carolina.
Community organization--North Carolina.
Community power--North Carolina.
Craven County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Craven Operation Progress.
Credit unions--North Carolina.
Day care centers--North Carolina.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Economic development projects--North Carolina.
Jones County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Jones County Economic Development Corporation.
Marketing cooperatives--North Carolina.
Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.).
North Carolina Fund.
Pamlico County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Pamlico County Economic Development Corporation.
Producer cooperatives--North Carolina.
Rural sanitation--North Carolina.
Small business--North Carolina--Finance.
Strawberries--Marketing--North Carolina.
EXPERIMENT FOR SELF-RELIANCE ABSTRACT:
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.
Online Catalog Terms:
Boys Clubs of America.
Community Action Program (U.S.).
Community development--North Carolina.
Community organization--North Carolina.
Community organization--North Carolina.
Community policing--North Carolina.
Community power--North Carolina.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Economic development projects--North Carolina.
Experiment for Self-Reliance.
Forsyth County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Legal assistance to the poor--North Carolina.
Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.).
North Carolina Fund.
Tutors and tutoring--North Carolina.
Wider Job Opportunities.
Winston-Salem (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Winston-Salem Police Community Services Unit.
MACON PROGRAM FOR PROGRESS ABSTRACT:
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.
Online Catalog Terms:
Adult education--North Carolina.
Aged--Services for--North Carolina.
Agricultural development projects--North Carolina.
Community Action Program (U.S.).
Community development--North Carolina.
Community development--Citizen participation--North CArolina.
Community health services--North Carolina.
Community mental health services--North Carolina.
Community organization--North Carolina.
Community power--North Carolina.
Credit unions--North Carolina.
Day care centers--North Carolina.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Economic development projects--North Carolina.
Family planning--North Carolina.
Head Start programs--North Carolina.
Housing--North Carolina.
Macon County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Macon County Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association, Inc.
Macon Program for Progress.
North Carolina Fund.
Occupational training--North Carolina.
Small business--Finance--North Carolina.
NASH-EDGECOMBE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ABSTRACT:
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.
Online Catalog Terms:
Community Action Program (U.S.).
Community development--North Carolina.
Community development--Citizen participation--North Carolina.
Community organization--North Carolina.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Economic development projects--North Carolina.
Edgecombe County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Industrial promotion--North Carolina.
Job creation--North Carolina.
Nash County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development.
Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.).
North Carolina Fund.
Occupational training--North Carolina.
Small business--Finance--North Carolina.
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH ABSTRACT:
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.
Online Catalog Terms:
Afro-Americans--North Carolina--Politics and government.
Children--North Carolina--Services for.
Community Action Program (U.S.).
Community centers--North Carolina.
Community development corporations--Organization and
administration--North Carolina.
Community development--North Carolina.
Community organization--North Carolina.
Community power--North Carolina.
Credit unions--North Carolina.
Day camps--North Carolina.
Durham (N.C.)--Race relations.
Durham (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Economic development projects--North Carolina.
Education Improvement Project.
Educational innovations--North Carolina.
Fuller, Howard.
Galiafianakis, Nick.
Gardner, James Carson, 1933- .
Head Start programs--North Carolina.
Housing--North Carolina.
Legal assistance to the poor--North Carolina.
Mental retardation facilities--North Carolina.
Neighborhood government--North Carolina.
Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.).
New Careers.
North Carolina Fund.
Operation Breakthrough.
Rent strikes--North Carolina.
United Organizations for Community Improvement.
THE OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION ABSTRACT:
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. 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.
Online Catalog Terms:
Asheville (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Buncombe County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Community Action Program (U.S.).
Community development--North Carolina.
Community development--Evaluation--North Carolina.
Community organization--North Carolina.
Community power--North Carolina.
Day care centers--North Carolina.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Economic development projects--North Carolina.
Head Start programs--North Carolina.
Hillcrest Community Organization.
North Carolina Fund.
The Opportunity Corporation.
Rent strikes--North Carolina.
Rural health clinics--North Carolina.
SALISBURY-ROWAN COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL ABSTRACT:
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.
Online Catalog Terms:
Community Action Program (U.S.).
Community development corporations--Organization and
administration--North Carolina.
Community development--North Carolina.
Community development--Citizen participation--North Carolina.
Community organization--North Carolina.
Community power--North Carolina.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Economic development projects--North Carolina.
Legal assistance to the poor--North Carolina.
North Carolin Fund.
Poor--North Carolina.
Rowan County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Salisbury (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Salisbury-Rowan Community Service Council.
TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION ABSTRACT:
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.
Online Catalog Terms:
Afro-Americans--North Carolina--Social conditions.
Community Action Program (U.S.).
Community development corporations--Organization and
administration--North Carolina.
Community development--North Carolina.
Community development--Citizen participation--North Carolina.
Community organization--North Carolina.
Community power--North Carolina.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Economic development projects--North Carolina.
Head Start programs--North Carolina.
Indians of North America--North Carolina--Social conditions.
Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.).
North Carolina Fund.
Occupational training--North Carolina.
Richmond County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Robeson County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Scotland County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Tri-County Community Action.
WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION, INC., ABSTRACT:
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.
Online Catalog Terms:
Avery County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Community Action Program (U.S.).
Community development--North Carolina.
Community organization--North Carolina.
Community power--North Carolina.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Economic development projects--North Carolina.
Marketing cooperatives--North Carolina.
Mitchell County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.).
North Carolina Fund.
Occupational training--North Carolina.
WAMY Community Action, Inc.
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Yancey County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
MANPOWER PROGRAMS ABSTRACT:
Records (about 42,000 items) of manpower programs supported by
the North Carolina Fund. Included are Manpower Improvement
Through Community Effort (MITCE) headquaters 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.
Online Catalog Terms:
Adult education--North Carolina.
Community development--North Carolina.
Craven County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Economic development projects--North Carolina.
Edgecombe County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
Guilford County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
Housing--North Carolina.
Manpower Development Corporation.
Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort.
Manpower policy--North Carolina.
MDC, Inc.
Mobility Program.
Nash County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
New Careers.
North Carolina Fund.
Occupational mobility--North Carolina.
Occupational training--North Carolina.
Richmond County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
Robeson County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
Rural unemployment--North Carolina.
Scotland County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
Transportation--Planning--North Carolina.
Work Oriented Retraining Centers.
RESEARCH, PLANNING, AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT ABSTRACT:
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.
Online Catalog Terms:
Avery County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Bertie County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Buncombe County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Charlotte (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Community Action Program (U.S.).
Community development--Evaluation--North Carolina.
Community development--Research--North Carolina.
Community health services--North Carolina.
Craven County (N.C.)--Social condtions.
Durham County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Edgecombe County (N.C.)--Social conditons.
Forsyth County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Halifax County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Hertford County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Jones County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Macon County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Mitchell County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Nash County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
North Carolina Fund.
Northampton County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Pamlico County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Poverty--Research--North Carolina.
Richmond County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Robeson County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Rowan County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Salisbury (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Scotland County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Yancey County (N.C)--Social conditions.
STUDY COMMITTEES SERIES ABSTRACT:
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.
Online Catalog Terms:
Advancement School.
Afro-Americans--Political activity--North Carolina.
Apportionment (Election law)--North Carolina.
Bertie County Voter Education Project.
Community development--North Carolina.
Community leadership--North Carolina.
Consumer cooperatives--North Carolina.
Consumer education--North Carolina.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Economic development projects--North Carolina.
Food prices--North Carolina.
Housing--North Carolina.
Learning Institute of North Carolina.
Legal asssistance to the poor--North Carolina.
Low-Income Housing Development Corporation of North Carolina.
Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort.
Manpower policy--North Carolina.
McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922- .
North Carolina Fund.
North Carolina Leadership Conference on Economic Development.
North Carolina Voter Education Project.
North Carolina--Politics and government--1951- .
Occupational training--North Carolina.
Regional education laboratories--North Carolina.
School dropouts--North Carolina.
Urban Training Center.
Voters--Education--North Carolina.
Voter registration--North Carolina.
PUBLIC INFORMATION DEPARTMENT SERIES ABSTRACT:
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 Hand-Outs for
Mrs. Hedgpeth (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.
Online Catalog Terms:
Barnes, Billy E.
Community Action Program (U.S.).
Community development personnel--North Carolina.
Community development--Citizen participation--North Carolina.
Community development--North Carolina.
Domestics--North Carolina.
Economic assistance, Domestic--North Carolina.
Galiafanakis, Nick.
Gardner, James Carson, 1933- .
"New Voices in Carolina."
No Hand-Outs for Mrs. Hedgpeth.
North Carolina Fund.
North Carolina Volunteers.
North Carolina--Race relations.
Poverty--North Carolina.
Race relations--North Carolina.
Voluntarism--North Carolina.
INTRODUCTION
Historical Note
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
Corp., 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 1,625,000
(Winston-Salem, N.C.)
Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation 875,000
(Winston-Salem, N.C.)
U.S. government 7,042,753
(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)
FUNDS EXPENDED
Manpower Development 43.7%
Education 21.0%
Grants to Communities for Administration 15.1%
of Projects
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.
Collection Overview
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.
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 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.
Subseries 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.
The collection is arranged as follows:
Series 1. Administration
Subseries 1.1. Governance
Subseries 1.1.1. Policies and Official Documents
Subseries 1.1.2. Board of Directors
Subseries 1.2. Executive Director
Subseries 1.2.1. Correspondence
Subseries 1.2.2. Gardner File
Subseries 1.2.3. Planning and Start-up
Subseries 1.2.4. Quayle Poll
Subseries 1.2.5. Speeches
Subseries 1.2.6. Other Materials
Subseries 1.3. Staff
Subseries 1.3.1. Correspondence
Subseries 1.3.2. Reports
Subseries 1.3.3. Meetings and Conferences
Subseries 1.4. Personnel
Subseries 1.5. Grants and Proposals
Subseries 1.6. Ford Foundation
Subseries 1.7. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)
Subseries 1.8. Foundation for Community Development (FCD)
Subseries 1.9. Low-Income Housing Development Corporation
(LIHDC)
Subseries 1.10. Other Organizations
Subseries 1.11. Subject Files
Subseries 1.12. Clippings
Series 2. Volunteer Programs
Subseries 2.1. North Carolina Volunteers
Subseries 2.1.1. Correspondence
Subseries 2.1.2. Summer 1964
Subseries 2.1.3. Summer 1965
Subseries 2.1.4. Winter Programs
Subseries 2.2. Volunteer Study
Subseries 2.3. Youth Educational Services (YES)
Subseries 2.4. Dept. of Special Projects
Series 3. Training Programs
Subseries 3.1. Training Dept.
Subseries 3.2. Community Services Consultants (CSC)
Subseries 3.3. Multi-Purpose Training Center
Subseries 3.4. Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)
Subseries 3.5. Community Action Technician (CAT) Training
Subseries 3.6. Summer Intern and Curriculum Development
Series 4. Community Action Programs
Subseries 4.1. Community Affairs Dept.
Subseries 4.2. WAMY Community Action, Inc.
Subseries 4.3. Macon Program for Progress (MPP)
Subseries 4.4. The Opportunity Corp. (TOC)
Subseries 4.5. Charlotte Area Fund, Inc. (CAF)
Subseries 4.6. Salisbury-Rowan Community Service Council
(SRCSC)
Subseries 4.7. Experiment in Self-Reliance (ESR)
Subseries 4.8. Operation Breakthrough (OBT)
Subseries 4.9. Tri-County Community Action, Inc. (TCCA)
Subseries 4.10. Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development, Inc.
(NEED)
Subseries 4.11. Choanoke Area Development Association, Inc.
(CADA)
Subseries 4.12. Coastal Progress, Inc./Craven Operation
Progress (COP)
Series 5. Manpower Programs
Subseries 5.1. Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort
(MITCE)
Subseries 5.2. Mobility
Subseries 5.3. Manpower Development Corporation (MDC)
Series 6. Research, Planning and Program Development Department
Subseries 6.1. Correspondence
Subseries 6.2. Operations
Subseries 6.3. "The Dimensions of Poverty in North Carolina"
Subseries 6.4. Study of Record-Keeping Systems
Subseries 6.5. Profiles of Community Problems
Subseries 6.6. Survey of Low-Income Families
Subseries 6.7. "An Analysis of the Community Action Process"
Subseries 6.8. Hunger Study Project
Subseries 6.9. N.C. Fund Library
Subseries 6.10. Histories and Archives Project
Series 7. Study Committees
Subseries 7.1. Leadership Training Committee
Subseries 7.2. North Carolina Voter Education Project
Subseries 7.3. Education Study Committee
Subseries 7.4. Legal Services and Consumer Education
Committee
Subseries 7.5. Committee on Intergovernmental Relations
Subseries 7.6. Housing Study Committee
Subseries 7.7. Committee on Manpower and Economic Development
(COMED)
Subseries 7.8. Health and Welfare Study Committee
Series 8. Division of Public Information
Subseries 8.1. Correspondence
Subseries 8.2. Programs
Subseries 8.3. Audiovisual Material
Series 9. Financial Records
Subseries 9.1. Audit Reports
Subseries 9.2. Correspondence and Other Material
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
Series 1. Administration
1963-1968. About 22,000 items.
Records of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee,
Executive Director, and staff members concerning policies and
programs; meetings; personnel administration; grant
administration; interactions with the Ford Foundation, the Office
of Economic Opportunity, and other organizations; and other
matters.
Note that original file folder titles and original folder
order have, for the most part, been retained.
Subseries 1.1. Governance
1963-1968. About 400 items.
Arrangement: by type of document.
Subseries 1.1.1. Policies and Official Documents
1963-1968. About 20 items.
Arrangement: by subject.
Major policy statements and governing documents of the North
Carolina Fund.
Folder 1 History of the North Carolina Fund
2 Proposal to Ford Foundation, 12 August 1963
3 Articles of Incorporation
4 By-laws
5 Functions, Objectives, Priorities
6 Organization
7 Administrative Manual
8 Programs and Policies
9 Community Action Agencies
10 Guidelines for Proposals to North Carolina Fund
11 Selected Facts on North Carolina Relating to the
Mission of the North Carolina Fund, 30 September
1963
12 Members of Board of Directors, Executive
Committee, Staff
Subseries 1.1.2. Board of Directors and Executive Committee
1963-1968. About 400 items.
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 Subseries 8.3: T-4710/1-2. North Carolina Fund Board
Meeting, 7-8 May 1967.
1963
Folder 13 July-September Board of Directors Meeting
14 July-September Executive Committee
Correspondence
15 August Executive Committee Meeting
16 October Board of Directors Meeting
17 October Executive Committee Correspondence
18 November Board of Directors Meeting
19 November Executive Committee Correspondence
20 December Board of Directors Meeting
21 December Executive Committee Meeting
22 December Executive Committee Correspondence
23 Miscellaneous
1964
24 January Executive Committee Meeting
25 February Executive Committee Correspondence
26 February Board of Directors Meeting
27 March Executive Committee Correspondence
28 April Executive Committee Correspondence
29 April Board of Directors Meeting
30 May Executive Committee Correspondence
31 June Executive Committee Correspondence
32 July Executive Committee Meeting
33 July Executive Committee Correspondence
34 August Board of Directors Meeting
35 August Executive Committee Correspondence
36 September Board of Directors Meeting
37 September Executive Committee Correspondence
38 October Executive Committee Meeting
39 November-December Miscellaneous, November-
December
40 Miscellaneous
1965
41 January Miscellaneous
42-43 February Board of Directors Meeting
44 February Executive Committee Correspondence
45 February Executive Committee Meeting
46 March Senior Staff Meeting
47-48 8 April Executive Committee Meeting
49 30 April Executive Committee Meeting
50 30 April Executive Committee Correspondence
51-52 May Board of Directors Meeting
53 May Executive Committee Correspondence
54 June Miscellaneous
55-56 July Executive Committee Meeting
57 August Board of Directors Meeting
58 August Executive Committee Meeting
59-60 September Executive Committee Meeting
61 September Board of Directors Meeting
62 September Executive Committee Correspondence
63 October Executive Committee Correspondence
64 November Board of Directors Meeting
65-66 November Executive Committee Meeting
67 November Executive Committee Correspondence
68-71 December Board of Directors Meeting
72 Miscellaneous
1966
73 January Miscellaneous
74 February Executive Committee Meeting
75-77 February Board of Directors Meeting
78 March Executive Committee Meeting
79 April Executive Committee Meeting
80 April Board of Directors Meeting
81 May Miscellaneous
82 June Miscellaneous
83 July Executive Committee Meeting
84-85 July Miscellaneous
86-87 August Board of Directors Meeting
88 September Board of Directors Meeting
89-90 September Miscellaneous
91 October Miscellaneous
92 November Miscellaneous
93 Meeting of North Carolina Fund Staff and Ford
Foundation Review Team
1967
94 January Executive Committee Meeting
95 January Correspondence: Miscellaneous
96 February Miscellaneous
97 March Board of Directors Meeting
98 April Executive Committee Meeting
99 May Board of Directors Meeting
100 May Board of Directors Correspondence
101 May Miscellaneous
102 June Board of Directors Meeting
103-104 July Executive Committee Meeting
105-106 August Board of Directors Meeting
107 September Board of Directors Meeting
108 October Board of Directors Meeting
109 November Board of Directors Meeting
110 December Miscellaneous
111 Miscellaneous
1968
112 January Executive Committee Meeting
113 February Executive Committee Meeting
114 March Executive Committee Meeting
115 April Miscellaneous
116 May Board of Directors Meeting
117-118 May Executive Committee Meeting
119-120 June Correspondence and Grant Requests
121 July Executive Committee Meeting
122 July Board of Directors and Executive
Committee Correspondence
123 July Miscellaneous
124 August Board of Directors Correspondence
125 October Executive Committee Correspondence
126 November Memos, Grant Requests, and Budget
Undated
127 Reports to Board of Directors
128 Resolutions
129 Financial Information
130 Requests for Grants
Subseries 1.2. Executive Director
1963-1971. About 7,200 items.
Subseries 1.2.1. Correspondence
1963-1971. About 6,400 items.
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 Subseries 1.6.
Folder 131 July 1963
132 August 1963
133 September 1963
1963 In-State
134-136 October
137-138 November
139-142 December
1963 Governor's Office
143 July-September
144 October-November
145 December
1963 Out-Of-State
146 July-September
147 October-November
148 December
1964 In-State
149-151 January
152-154 February
155-156 March
157-158 April
159-160 May
161-162 June
163-164 July
165-166 August
167-168 September
169-170 October
171-172 November
173-174 December
1964 Governor's Office
175 January-February
176 March-April
177 May-June
178 July-August
179 September-October
180 November-December
1964 Out-Of-State
181 January
182 February
183 March
184 April
185 May
186 June
187 July
188 August
189 September
190 October
191 November
192 December
1965 In-State
193-194 January
195-196 February
197-198 March
199-200 April
201-202 May
203-204 June
205-206 July
207-208 August
209-210 September
211-212 October
213-214 November
215-216 December
1965 Out-Of-State
217 January
218 February
219 March
220 April
221 May
222 June
223 July
224 August
225 September
226 October
227 November
228 December
1966 In-State
229-230 January
231 February
232-233 March
234 April
235-237 May
238 June
239 July
240 August
241-242 September
243-244 October
245 November
246 December
1966 Out-Of-State
247 January
248 February
249 March
250 April
251 May
252 June
253 July
254 August
255 September
256 October
257 November
258 December
1967 In-State
259-260 January
261-262 February
263-264 March
265-266 April
267-268 May
269-270 June
271-272 July
273-274 August
275-276 September
277 October
278-279 November
280-281 December
1967 Out-Of-State
282 January
283 February
284 March
285 April
286 May
287 June
288 July
289 August
290 September
291 October
292 November
293 December
1968 In-State
294 January
295 February
296 March
297 April
298 May
299 June
300 July
301 August
302 September
303 October
304 November
305 December
306 1968 Out-Of-State
307 1969
308 1970-1971
309-312 Undated
Subseries 1.2.2. Gardner File
1965-1969. About 500 items.
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 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, Jr., 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
1966
314 February-June
315 July-August
316 September-December
1967
317 January-June
318-321 July
322-330 August
331 September
332 October-December
333 1968
334 1969
335 Undated
336 Summer 1967 Chronology
337-338 Notebook
Subseries 1.2.3. Planning and Start-Up
1963-1964. About 50 items.
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
340 Bulletin #1. September 1963
341 Bulletins #2-4. October-November 1963
342 Bulletins #5-6. January-February 1964
Subseries 1.2.4. Quayle Poll
1968. About 50 items
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
344 1968 Opinion Poll, Vol. I
345 1968 Opinion Poll, Vol. II-Vol. VI
346 1968 Opinion Poll, Vol. VII-Vol. IX
347 1968 Opinion Poll, Vol. X-Vol. XIII
348 Press Releases
349 Correspondence
350 Questionnaire
351 "Notes and Questionnaires on Attitudes Toward
Negro-White Relations"
Subseries 1.2.5. Speeches
1962-1968. About 150 items.
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 "When the Heart Is Afire, Some Sparks Will Fly
Out of the Mouth." Speeches of George Esser,
Jr., 1962-1968.
356 1963
357 1964
358-359 1965
360 1966
361-362 1967
363-365 1968
366 Miscellaneous and undated
367 Speech material
Subseries 1.2.6. Other Materials
1964-1970. About 50 items.
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.
Folder 368 Houston, Larry. Speech on Manpower, 1965
369 Johnson, Lyndon Baines. Visit to Rocky Mount,
N.C., May 1964
370 Moore, Dan K., Governor
371 Moore, Dan K., Mrs.
372 Sanford, Terry. Articles and Speeches
373 Wheeler, J. H. Speeches
374 Wheeler, Raymond, "The Problem of Hunger and
Poverty in North Carolina"
375 Profile of the South
376 Community Action File
377 Objectives
378 Objectives Committees
379 Program Development Notebook
380 Summaries of Small Grants Notebook
381 Travel Schedules
382 New Orleans Trip, 23-27 April 1968
383-385 Perspectives: Drafts
386 Perspectives
387 Esser, George. "Involving the Citizen in Decision
Making"
388 Esser, George. "The Role of a State-Wide
Foundation in the War on Poverty"
389 Esser, George. Notes.
390 Corporation X
391 Phaseout
392 Dissolution of the North Carolina Fund, 1970
393 Transcript of Esser Interview, 2 January 1970
Subseries 1.3. Staff
1963-1968. About 2,500 items.
Subseries 1.3.1. Correspondence
1963-1968. About 1,500 items.
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
1964
395 January-February
396 March-May
397 June-September
398 October-December
1965
399 January-October
400 November-December
1966
401 January
402 February
403-404 March
405 April
406-407 May
408-410 June
411 July
412 August
413 September
414 October
415 November
416 December
1967
417 January
418 February
419 April
420 March
421 May
422 June
423 July
424 August
425 September
426 October
427 November
428-429 December
1968
430 January-February
431 March-April
432 May-December
433 1969 and undated
Subseries 1.3.2. Reports
1964-1968. About 30 items.
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.
Folder 434 Community Action Programs outside North Carolina,
Reports on Staff Visits
435 Community Development in Puerto Rico, [1965?]
436 Family Planning and Rural Poverty by Frederick S.
Jaffe
437 Rural Family Planning Programs, edited by
Frederick S. Jaffe
438 Missouri Association Migrant Opportunity Services
(MAMOS) Consultant Report by W. L. Flowers, 24-29
September 1967
439 Departmental Progress Reports
440 North Carolina Fund, Mid-Year Review,. 3-4 March
1964
North Carolina Fund, Progress Report
441 June 1964
442 26 July 1966
443 22-23 March 1967
444 30 September 1968
445 Oakland, Ca., Visit, 3-4 January 1966
446 Task Forces, October 1965
447 UOCI Grievance Report, February 1968
448 What Have We Learned from Community Action?
Brookings Institution, 16 October 1968
449 Staff Speeches
Subseries 1.3.3. Meetings and Conferences
1963-1968. About 1,000 items.
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.
Staff meetings
Folder 450 1964
1965
451 January-July
452-454 August
455 September-October
456 November
457 December
1966
458 January
459-460 February
461 March-May
462 June-October
463 November-December
1967
464 January-18 February
465-466 28 February-2 March (Southern Pines
Retreat)
467 20-31 March
468 April-May
469 June
470 July-December
471 1968
472 Undated
Policy Planning Committee Meetings
473 January-April 1966
474 May-June 1966
475 July 1966-January 1967
Conferences
476 1963
1964
477 Ford Foundation's Great Cities Community
Development Projects; Project
Directors'Conferences, 6-7 January
478 Conference of State and Federal Officials
with North Carolina Fund, 14-15 January
479 Conference of State and Federal Officials
with North Carolina Fund, 14-15 January
480 Ford Foundation Project Directors'
Meeting, 27 March
481 Regional Conferences, September-October
482 Chapel Hill Conference, 22 October
483 North Carolina Adult Education
Association, Raleigh, 18 November
484 1965
1966
485 February-July
486 NACD. Conference on Rural Poverty, 9-11
October
487 November-December
1967
488 January-March
489 April-July
490 August-September
491 October-December 1967
1968
492-493 Cooperation for Action Rural Region
Seminar, Burr Oak Lodge, 1-3 February
494 February-March
495 NCSW Division Committee National Urban
League, New York, 22-23 March
496 April-May
497 Police-Community Relations Seminar, May
498 Conference on Rural Development, 23-24
September
499 National Association for Community
Development, Washington, D.C., 18-19
October
500 North Carolina Agricultural Extension
Service Annual Meeting, 31 March-2 April
501 Rural Regional Conference, undated
Brainstorming Project
502-503 Papers and Reports
504 Blanchard Report
505 Budget and Planning
506 Memos
507 1964
508 Letters, January-June 1965
509 Letters, July-October 1965
510 1966-1968 and undated
511-512 Scholarship Seminar Project
513 Public Information Seminar Project
514 Urban and Rural Housing Seminar
Preparations
515 Preparations for the Seminars
516-518 Scholarship Seminar
519 Rural Housing Seminar
520-521 Involvement of the Poor Seminar
522-523 Urban Housing Seminar
524-525 Legal Services Seminar
526 Blair House Fund Retreat
Subseries 1.4. Personnel
1963-1968. About 2,400 items.
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 Subseries 4.1.
Folder 527 Personnel Policy, 3 January 1964
528 Personnel Policy, Working Paper I, 7 April
1965
529 Personnel Policies
530 Administrative Manual (First Edition)
531 Administrative Manual (Second Edition)
532 Administrative Manual Drafts
533 Mobility Administrative Manual
534 OEO. Community Action Memo No. 23-A. Personnel
Policies and Procedures.
535 North Carolina Fund Staff Orientation and New
Employee
Information
536 Staff Directories
537 Biographical Information on Staff
538 Office Plans
539-540 Organization
541 Procedures and Operation
542 Position Classificaiton
543 Lists of Job Descriptions
544 Position Descriptions, 31 August 1965
545 Job Descriptions
546-549 Job Descriptions by Department
550 Interviews from Which Draft Specs Prepared
551 Job Descriptions from City of Detroit
552 Job Descriptions in Community Development
553-557 Comparative Data: Salaries and Titles
558 Secretarial Survey
559 Comparative Classification Data from Projects
560 Comparative Data Received
561-562 Salaries
563 Benefits Packet
564 Fringe Benefits
565 Associated Insurers, Inc.
566 Home Security Life Insurance Co.
567 Pilot Life Insurance Co.
568 Security Life and Trust Co.
569 TIAA-CREF
570 Tax-Sheltered Annuities
571 Health Insurance
572 Workmen's Compensation and Other Insurance
573 Ferriz, Helen
574 Certified Professional Secretary
575 IOG, Suggested Personnel Resolution for
Mecklenburg County, October 1964
576 Miscellaneous Personnel Information
577 Work Samples
578 Forms
579-580 Consultants
581 Potential Employees
582 Applicant Information Cards
583 Job Opportunities
584 Directors of Placement Services
585 Contact Persons in North Carolina Fund
Related Projects
Selective Service
586 Total Living Registrants By Year of Birth As
of 31 January 1965 for North Carolina Counties
587 Consolidated Reports
588 Correspondence
589 North Carolina Fund Policy on Staff
Deferments
Salter
590 March-August 1966
591 September 1966
592 October-November 1966
593 January 1967
594 Recruitment for CAPS
Koch, William H., Correspondence
595 A-B
596 C-E
597 F-L
598 M-N
599 O-S
600 T-Z
Correspondence
601 1964
1965
602 January-July
603 August-October
604 November
605 December
1966
606 January
607 February
608 March-April
609 May
610 June
611 July-December
612 1967-1968 and undated
Subseries 1.5. Grants and Proposals
1964-1969. About 2,000 items.
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
Subseries 7.3 for more information about the Comprehensive School
Improvement Project (CSIP) and the Learning Institute of North
Carolina (LINC); Subseries 1.9 and Subseries 7.6 for more
information about the Low-Income Housing Development Corporation
(LIHDC); and Subseries 1.8 and Subseries 4.8 on the United
Organizations for Community Improvement (UOCI) in Durham.
Folder 613 Carolina's Council of Housing and
Redevelopment
614 Chapel Hill Housing Authority Proposal
615 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Seminar on Local
Government
616 Durham City Schools
617 Durham Homes, Inc.
Foundation for Community Development, Inc.
618 Community Development Program
619 Community Development Program #2
620 Community Development Program #3
621 Household Assistance Inc.Job Training Course
622 Johnson C. Smith University
Law School Programs
623 North Carolina College Course on Legal
Problems of the Poor
624-627 University of North Carolina: Cases and
Materials for Course on Legal Problems of
the Poor
628 Leadership Training Center
Learning Institute of North Carolina
629 Administrative
630 Learning Institute of North Carolina
631 Technical Assistance Program
632 Legal Aid Society of Forsyth County: Interns
633 Livingstone College and Catawba College:
Summer Training
Low Income Housing Development Corporation
634-635 Low Income Housing Corporation
636 OEO and Administrative Support
637 Low Cost Housing Design Development
638 Memorial Recreation Forest Inc., Warren
County, N.C.
639 National Training Laboratories: Julian Griggs
640-646 North Carolina Board of Education:
Comprehensive School Improvement Project
647-648 North Carolina Board of Public Health Sub-
Professional Training
North Carolina Board of Public Welfare
649 Community Services Consultants
650 Community Services Consultants Evaluation
651-652 Day Care Consultant
653-655 Gerio-Psychiatric Consultive Services
656-657 Consumer Education and Administration
658-660 North Carolina Council of Women's
Organizations
661 North Carolina Department of Community
Colleges
662 North Carolina Department of Mental Health:
Anti-Poverty Programs
North Carolina Good Neighbors Council
663 Brochure Grant
664 Public Service Employment Training Project
665 North Carolina Joint Council on Health and
Citizenship Proposal
666 North Carolina Laboratory on Community
Leadership Training
North Carolina Manpower Development
Corporation
667 North Carolina Manpower Development
Corporation
668 Continued Support
669 Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
670 North Carolina Rural Fund for Development:
Co-op Assistance Grant
State Planning Task Force
671 Grants (North Carolina Department of
Administration)
672 Community Services Aid Proposal
673 Manpower Proposal
674 Subprofessional Careers
675 Technical Assistance
676 ESEA
677 Organization
678 History
679 State Social Planning
680-681 North Carolina State Planning
682 Correspondence, 1965
683 Correspondence, 1966-1967
684 Directories
685 Approved Programs
686 Community Action
687 Technical Assistance Program
688 Miscellaneous Statistics
689 Committees
690 Publications
691 North Carolina State University Rural Action
Research Program
North Carolina Voter Education Project
692 Proposals
693 Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws
694 Correspondence
695-696 Annual Report, 15 May 1967-31 December
1967
697-698 Annual Report, 1968
699 Progress Report, January-June 1968
700 Progress Report, June-December 1968
701 Progress Report, January-June 1969
702 Delegates Attending NCVEP Leadership
Training Conference
703 First Congressional District Voter's
Handbook
704 Fourth Congressional District Voter's
Handbook
705 1969 Municipal Election Time Table and
Voter Registration Statistics
706 Municipal Election Laws, Procedure, and
Forms of Government
707 VEP News
708 Booklets
709 Drafts of NCVEP Booklets
710 "New Forces of Urban Political Power"
711 Leadership Training Project
712 Research Guide for Organizers
713 Tax Exemption Application
714 Financial Records, 1967
715 Financial Records, 1968
716 Financial Records, 1969 and undated
717 Piedmont University Center of North Carolina
718 Project Outreach
719-21 Shaw University Curriculum Development
722 Shaw University, St. Augustine College, and
North Carolina College Summer Training
723-725 Southern Appalachian Studies
726-727 State of Franklin Health Council, Inc.
728 Grant
729 Proposals
730-731 Proposals for Discussion Only
732 Health Services Proposal by Macon Program
or Progress
733 Application for Health Planning or Health
Services Grant, 1968
734 History
735 Articles of Incorporation
736 Minutes of Committee Meetings
737 Report, 1966
738 Seminar, July 1967
739-740 Data, Drafts and Notes
741 Information on Legislation and Programs
742 Correspondence
743 United Organizations for Community Improvement
744 UNC Center for Community Research and Services
745-746 UNC Institute of Government Masters of Public
Administration Stipend
747-750 UNC Institute of Government, et. al. Institute
on Police and Community Relations
751-752 UNC School of Social Work
753-754 Miscellaneous Proposals
Subseries 1.6. Ford Foundation
1963-1977. About 500 items.
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 subseries.
Folder 760 Proposal to Ford Foundation
Ford Foundation Correspondence
761 August 1963-April 1964
762 May 1964-November 1965
763 December 1965-October 1966
764 November 1966-May 1968
765 June 1968-1969 and undated
766 Ford Foundation Reviews
767 Ford Foundation Visit, 21-23 September 1964
768 Ford Foundation Review Team, 4 November 1966
769 Ford Foundation Review Report, 1966
770 Ford Visit, 2 February 1968
771 Sviridoff, Mitchell
772 Letter to Mitchell Sviridoff. Drafts, 22 February
1968
773 Esser to Sviridoff. Drafts, 24 February 1968
774 Publication of Memo to Sviridoff
775 Puerto Rico Conference, 13-16 December 1964
776 Overseas Reports, May 1966
777 Overseas Reports, June 1966-July 1966
778 Ford Foundation Meetings
779 Ylsivaker, Paul
780-784 Cunningham, James V. "Resident Participation,"
1967, pp. 1-245
785 Foundation Investment In Solving The Problems Of
North Carolina And The South
786 Ford Foundation Grant Request, 1963
787-791 Ford Foundation. Program Adviser. Correspondence,
February 1969-September 1971
792 Ford Foundation Program Adviser Activities
793 Ford Foundation Grants, 1976
794 Ford Foundation Pamphlets and Publicity
Subseries 1.7. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)
1964-1967. About 100 items.
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.
Folder 795-796 Economic Opportunity Act (EOA) of 1964
797 Legal Services and Community Action Programs, EOA
1964 (Title II-A)
798 Small Business Development Centers, EOA 1964
(Title IV)
799 EOA, 1964, Planning
800 Economic Opportunity Act Regulations, 1964
801 EOA, 1964 Reports, Bills, and Acts
802 James L. White, Coordinator, EOA, 1964
803 Education under EOA in North Carolina (1964)
804 Letters on Economic Opportunities (Anti-Poverty)
Bill
805 EOA, 1965
806 OEO Amendments, 1966
807 1966 OEO Bill
808 EOA, 1967
809 Economic Opportunity Amendments, 1967
810 OEO Amendments (S. 2388), 1967
811 OEO Green Amendment, 1967
812 Amendments to EOA, 1967
813 OEO Research and Demonstration
814 New Jersey EOA
815 OEO Special Impact
816 Matching Fund Regulations, OEO
817 North Carolina Fund Role in EO Program
818 Guidelines for Reviewing Consumer Programs (OEO)
819 OEO. The First Step...On a Long Journey.
Congressional Presentation. April 1965
820 Communities in Action
821-823 OEO. Community Action Programs: A Workbook for
Planners
824 OEO. Community Action Program Guide
825 Job Corps
826 Project Head Start
827 Neighborhood Youth Corps (Title I-B, E.O.A.)
828 Neighborhood Youth Corps. Dare County Application
829 Woodard Home-Grown Food Project Proposal to OEO
Subseries 1.8. Foundation for Community Development (FCD)
1967-1972. About 2,000 items.
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.
Folder 830 Charter and By-Laws
831 Corporate Data and Early History
832 Board of Directors
Minutes, Board of Directors Meetings
833 20 October 1967
834 7 December 1967
835 15 March 1968
836 24 May 1968
837 26 July 1968
838 4 October 1968
839 13 December 1968
840 21 March 1969
841 9 May 1969
842 20 June 1969
843 19 September 1969
844 6 February 1970
845 Fact Sheets on FCD and North Carolina Fund
846 Organization Chart
847 Administrative Manual
848 Resumes
849 Grants from the North Carolina Fund
850 Proposal to North Carolina Fund, October 1967
851 Proposal to North Carolina Fund, October 1967
(Drafts)
852 Proposal to the Ford Foundation, February 1968
853 Grant from Ford Foundation, 23 December 1969
Proposals to the Ford Foundation
854 6 January 1970
855 11 February 1970
856 Grant from Ford Foundation, 17 March 1970
Proposal to the Ford Foundation
857 February 1971
858 26 March 1971
859 Grant from the Ford Foundation, 8 June 1971
860 Proposal to OEO (Section I)
861 Proposal to OEO (Sections II-VI)
862 Proposal to Economic Development Administration,
Technical Assistance Grant (1968)
863 Proposal to R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
864 Cummins Engine Foundation Grant to FCD, 16 April
1970
865 Chronology of Monitoring Relationships by the
North Carolina Fund with FCD
866 Monitoring Report #1: 21 January 1970
867 Monitoring Report #2: 1 January 1970-10 February
1970
868 Monitoring Report #4: 1 April 1970-5 March 1971
869 Monitoring Report #4: 1 April 1970-5 March 1971
(Rough Draft and Notes)
870 Monitoring Report #5: 5 March-5 October 1971
Monthly Reports to the Ford Foundation
871 February, March, and April 1970
872 May-August 1970
873 September-December 1970
874 January-May 1977
875 June-October 1971
876 Audit Report, Year Ended 31 October 1968
877 Audit Report, Year Ended 31 October 1969
878 Audit Report, 1 November 1969-31 December 1969
879 Report on Examination, Year Ended 31 October 1970
880 Report to the North Carolina Fund Board of
Directors
881 North Carolina Fund Review, 8-11 September 1969
882 Report to the North Carolina Fund, 9 October 1968-
1 August 1969
883 Evaluation Report of FCD
884 Ford Foundation "Development Team" Visit: 27-28
March 1972
885 Partial Report of the Legal and Social Research
Department
886 "The Foundation for Community Development" by
Steve Redburn and Bertie Howard, 24 July 1968
887 "FCD: A Unique Experiment in Community
Development," March 1972
Correspondence
888 February-September 1967
889 October-December 1967
890 February-May 1968
891 June-December 1968
892 January-May 1969
893 June-July 1969
894 August-September 1969
895 October-December 1969
896 1970
897 1971-1972 and undated
898 Financial Material
899 Grant Requests to FCD
900 Reports on Funded Organizations
901 Greensboro Association of Poor People
902 Agreement between FCD and IFCO
903 Malcolm X Liberation University
904 United Durham, Inc.
905 An Analysis of Community Development in Some
Selected Communities in North Carolina
906 "Evaluation of Maximum Feasible Participation of
the Poor" by Nathan Garrett
907 A Beginning Notebook on Community Organization
908 Notebook on Publicity and How to Use It
909 A Notebook on Neighborhood Councils
910 Community Development Training
911-913 Leadership Development Program
914 Miscellaneous Material
915-918 Clippings
Investigations
919 Transcript of Hearings of U.S. Senate
Subcommittee on Investigations, 10 July 1969
920 Report of Incidents of Student Unrest, N.C. A
& T State University, 10 July 1969
921 Material Sent to Ford Foundation, 23 July 1969
922 Material Compiled by Ford Foundation, August
1969
923 Greensboro
924 North Carolina Fund
925 Ford Foundation
926 Statements, Clippings, Letters
927 Notes and Other Material
928 North Carolina Fund Executive Committee Notes, 11
September 1969
Subseries 1.9. Low-Income Housing Development Corporation
(LIHDC)
1966-1972. About 2,000 items.
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.
Folder 929 Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws
930 Administrative Manual
931-932 Housing Study Committee History of LIHDC
933 Executive Committee Meeting of Board of Directors,
17 April 1967
934 Board of Directors Meeting, 8 May 1971
935 Grant from HUD, 15 June 1966
936 Grant from OEO, 13 July 1966
937 Proposal to North Carolina Fund
938 Demonstration Project Proposal
939 Proposal
940 Proposal to HUD, 14 March 1968
941 Proposal to North Carolina Board of Science and
Technology
942 Proposal to Office of Economic Opportunity
943 Proposal to Ford Foundation, 11 November 1968
944 Proposal to Ford Foundation, 14 February 1970
945 Grant from OEO, 30 June 1971
946 Proposal to HOME
947 Contracts
948 Coordinated Housing Program
949 Consolidation of LIHDC and RHDC
950-952 RHDC Proposal
953 National Housing Fund
954 National Housing Development Corporation
955 Evaluation Report, July 1967
956 Examination Reports, 31 Aug 1969
957 National Urban Coalition. Final Report
958 Final Report
Progress Reports
959 1 September 1967-1 January 1968
960 January-March 1968
961 1 May 1968
Quarterly Reports
962 1 April-30 June 1968
963-964 1 July-30 September 1968
965 Report to Board of Directors, 7 December 1968
Quarterly Reports
966 1 October-31 December 1968
967 31 December 1968-31 March 1969
968 1 April-30 June 1969
969 Project Status Report, July 1969
970 Quarterly Report, 30 September 1969
971 Project Status Report, September 1969
972 Project Status Report, May 1970
973 Project Status Report, June 1970
974 Planning Session
975 Rural Program Target Area Selection
976 Training Programs
977 CAP Training Program Progress Reports, October
1969-June 1970
978-981 Land Bank Project
982 Recommendations for Independent Housing Program,
Section I
983 Recommendations for Independent Housing Program,
Section II
984-986 Morton Hoffman Report on Durham
987 "Home Ownership for the Poor"
988 Cogswell Study
989-991 Appendices to Cogswell Study
992 Project Data for Low-Cost Housing Study
993 IBIS
994 Study of Market for Low-Cost Housing
995 Miscellaneous
Correspondence
996 March 1966-February 1968
997 March-June 1968
998 July 1968-January 1969
999 February 1969-June 1970
1000 July 1970-February 1971
1001 April 1971-1972
1002 Undated
Financial Records
1003 July 1965-September 1966
1004 October 1966-March 1967
1005 April 1967-September 1967
1006 October 1967-June 1968
1007 July 1968-December 1968
1008 1969
1009-1010 Undated
Subseries 1.10. Other Organizations
1963-1971. About 1,000 items.
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.
Folder 1011 Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
1012 Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental
Relations
1013 American Society for Public Administration
1014 Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
1015 Appalachian People's Congress
1016 Appalachian Research Institute
1017 Bureau of Employment Security
1018 C. S. Mott Foundation
1019 Church and Industry Institute
1020-1021 Citizen's Committee for Children of New York
1022-1024 Citizen's Crusade Against Poverty
1025-1027 Committee on Population and the Family
1028 Community Development Group. School of Design.
North Carolina State University
1029 Community Progress, Inc. (New Haven, Conn.)
1030 Connecticut Department of Community Affairs
1031 Connecticut Regional Medical Program
1032 Council on Foundations
Council of the Southern Mountains
1033 Brochure and Membership Information
1034 Overview
1035 By-Laws and Revisions
1036 Board of Directors' Meetings
1037-1038 Board of Directors' Memos, 1966-1968
1039-1041 Correspondence, 1963-1969 and undated
1042 Conferences
1043 Education Committee
1044 Summary of "Seed Grant" Pilot Projects
(Ford Foundation Grant)
1045 Proposal to Economic Opportunity Office
for Talent Recruitment, Technical
Assistance and Training Grant
1046 Evaluation of a Talent Recruitment and
Technical Assistance Grant Prepared for
the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity
1047 Review of Development Plan
1048 Comments on 22 February 1968 Newspaper
Editorial in The Mountain Eagle
1049 News
1050 Census Information on Counties in
Appalachian South
1051 Publications
1052 Journal of the Committee of Southern
Churchmen, Summer 1966
1053 "Education and the New South" by Solon
Kimball
1054 President's Appalachian Regional
Commission: Recommendations
1055 Miscellaneous
1056 Federation of Southern Corps
1057 Field Foundation
1058 Foundation Group
1059 International City Managers Association
1060 Local Government Study Commission
1061 Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
1062 Mecklenburg College (Carver College) Property
1063-1065 Mississippi Research and Development Center
1066 Model Cities Program
1067 National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty
National Association for Community Development
1068 Articles of Incorporation, By-Laws and
Objectives
1069 Board of Directors
1070 Memoranda from the Director: November
1966-March 1968
1071-1072 Correspondence, 1965-1968
1073 Membership
1074 Newsletter
1075 "Community Development"
1076 Press Releases and Clippings
1077 Position Papers
1078 Nation Action Programs
1079 Proposal and Report to Ford Foundation
1080 Congressional Testimony and Legislative
Analysis
1081 Regional Conferences, Spring 1967
1082 Conference, April 1967
1083 Employment Seminar, Fall 1967
1084 Annual Meeting, April 1968 (Atlanta)
1085 Miscellaneous
1086 National Association of Counties
1087 National Committee on Employment of Youth
1088 National Education Association
1089 National League of Cities
1090 North Carolina A & T State Univ. Institute for
Research in Human Resources
1091 North Carolina Agriculture Extension Service
1092 North Carolina Governor's Commission on Status
of Women
1093 North Carolina Community Action Association
1094 North Carolina Congress of Parents and
Teachers and North Carolina Congress of
Colored Parents and Teachers
1095 North Carolina Department of Community Affairs
1096 North Carolina Department of Public
Instruction: North Carolina Study in
Vocational Rehabilitation: Interagency
Advisory Committee
1097 North Carolina Employment Security Commission
1098 North Carolina Mental Health Association
1099 Public Instruction, Department of
1100 North Carolina State Board of Higher Education
1101 North Carolina State Board of Public Welfare:
Agendas
1102 North Carolina State Technical Action Panel
1103 North Carolina Voter Education Council
1104 Penland School of Crafts
1105 Penn Community Services, Inc.
1106 President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency
1107 Project Outreach: Miscellaneous
1108-1109 Regional Education Laboratory for the
Carolinas and Virginia
1110 Richardson Foundation
1111 Rural Development Corporation
1112-1113 Rutgers' Urban Studies Center
1114 SACS: Education Improvement Project Report to
Coordinating Committee
1115 Sharecropper's Fund
1116 Southern Conference Educational Fund
1117 Southern Education Reporting Service
Southern Regional Council
1118-1119 Review: January 1968
1120 Review
1121 SRC
1122 Voter Education Project
1123 "The Better War II: A Long Journey"
1124 Miscellaneous
1125 Southern Regional Education Board
1126 Southern School News
1127 Stern Family Fund
1128 United Neighborhood Improvement Team
1129 UNC. Institute of Government
1130-1131 Urban America, Inc.
1132 Urban Studies Center: Rutgers
1133-1134 Urban Training Center for Christian Mission
1135-1137 Urban Training Center for Christian Mission:
Narrative Reports and Appendices
1138-1139 Urban Coalition
1140 U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "Forward America"
1141 U.S. Department of Agriculture
1142 U.S. Department of Health, Education and
Welfare
1143-1144 U.S. Housing and Home Finance Agency
1145 U.S. Senate: Special Committee on Aging
1146 Young Presidents' Organization Inc.
1147-1149 Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Inc.
Subseries 1.11. Subject Files
1963-1969. About 1,000 items.
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.
Folder 1150 Adult Education
1151 Aging Poor Program
1152 Appalachian Institute Committee Report
1153 Civil Rights Act
1154 Community Action Programs
1155 Community Colleges
1156 Cooperative Action
1157 Courts
1158 Durham, N.C.
1159 County and City Boards of Education: Receipt
of Financial Aid
1160 Drop-Outs
1161 Economic Development
1162 Education Clippings
1163 Education Committee
1164 Elementary Education
1165 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 1965
1166 Employment
1167 Federal Legislation
1168 Full Employment Act, 1967
1169 Guaranteed Income
1170 Health
1171 Higher Education Act
1172 Housing Program
1173 Intergovernmental Relations
1174 Jewish Education and Data
1175 Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Development
Reports to the President
1176 Kansas City Special Scholarship Committee
1177 Manpower: Statewide Academic and Vocational
Training Proposal for North Carolina's Attack
on Poverty
1178 Mental Retardation
1179 Metropolitan Toronto Council
1180 Mid-South Regional Education Laboratory
1181 Neighborhood Organization
1182 North Carolina Area Development
1183 North Carolina Economy
1184 North Carolina Income, 1966
1185 North Carolina Membership
1186 North Carolina State Multi-County Projects
1187 North Carolina Public School Bulletin
1188 North Carolina State Government
1189 Ombudsman
1190 Poverty
1191 Professional Education
1192 Public Health
1193 Publications (Outside)
1194 Regional Medical Programs
1195 Scholarship Programs
1196 Scholastic Magazine
1197 School Desegregation
1198 Southern Regional Conference on Education
1199 State Legislation
1200 Study of the Negro
1201 20th Century Fund Report on North Carolina
Education
1202 University Proposals
1203-1204 Youth Programs
Subseries 1.12. Clippings
1967-1972. About 1,000 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Clippings, chiefly 1