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WBT (Radio station : Charlotte, N.C.). WBT/WBTV corporate records, 1920-2009, 1954-1989.

Title: WBT/WBTV corporate records, 1920-2009, 1954-1989.

This collection contains the records of WBT radio, WBTV television, the Jefferson-Pilot Communication Company of Charlotte, North Carolina from the 1920s to approximately the year 2009. There are also records from the Columbia Broadcasting System and a variety of syndicated television shows.

ArchivalResource: 372 linear inches

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North Carolina Fund Records, 1962-1971

Title: North Carolina Fund Records, 1962-1971

The North Carolina Fund, an independent,non-profit, charitable corporation, sought and dispensed funds to fight poverty inNorth Carolina, 1963-1968. Governor Terry Sanford and other North Caroliniansconvinced the Ford Foundation to grant $7 million initial funding for a statewideanti- poverty effort aimed at rural and urban communities. This money--plusadditional funding from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation; the Mary Reynolds BabcockFoundation; the U.S. Dept. of Labor; U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare;U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development; and the Office of EconomicOpportunity--enabled the Fund to support a broad program of education, communityaction, manpower development, research and planning, and other efforts to fightpoverty. Administrative and financial records (about 32,000items), 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 andgrants; materials documenting the Fund's relationship with the Ford Foundation, theOffice of Economic Opportunity, the Foundation for Community Development, theLow-Income Housing Development Corporation, and other organizations; subject files;clippings, audit reports; and financial correspondence and other financial records.There is also material about Congressmen Jim Gardner and Nick Galiafianakis's 1967attacks on Fund activities in Durham, N.C., and earlier controversies over politicalactivity of staff members in areas served by Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development andCraven Operation Progress. Other material relates to an opinion poll conductedby Oliver Quayle & Company in 1968. Also included are proposals and grantapplications for housing, education, community development, job training,leadership, and rural development programs; the North Carolina Voter EducationProject; and proposals from the State of Franklin Health Council Inc. HowNorth Carolina Whites and Blacks View: Each Other, Government and Police,Housing, Poverty, Education, and Employment,

ArchivalResource: 187000; 330.0

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Crutchfield, Charles Harvey, 1912-1998. Charles Harvey Crutchfield papers, 1942-2000.

Title: Charles Harvey Crutchfield papers, 1942-2000.

The collection traces the broadcasting career of Charles Harvey Crutchfield, beginning in the 1940s when he was program director and then general manager of radio station WBT and continuing until his retirement as president of the Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting Company in 1977. The files consist primarily of correspondence, memoranda, clippings, and other materials relating to the Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company in its various incarnations. Of particular interest are files addressing current events in the broadcasting community and Crutchfield's response, in the various capacities he held, to them. Topics covered include union organization efforts, Senate hearings regarding representation of affiliate stations in the national spot sales field, the expansion and growth of the Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company, and the development of Community Antenna Television. Crutchfield's ardent anti-communist stance is reflected throughout these materials. Crutchfield corresponded regularly with Reverend Billy Graham and, later, with CBS News president Richard Salant and Frank Stanton, president of CBS Inc.; routine correspondence with national and local political figures is also included. There are also files, comprised chiefly of correspondence, reports, and clippings, that document Crutchfield's work with his consulting firm, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the North Carolina Agency for Public Telecommunications, and professional and civic organizations. Audiocassettes primarily contain interviews with Charles Crutchfield and WBT programs prepared in honor of various anniversaries celebrated by the station. A number of video tapes are recordings of obituaries of and tributes to Crutchfield. Films include "Weep for the Innocent" and footage of fired employees picketing WBT in the late 1940s.

ArchivalResource: About 40000 items (77.0 linear feet)

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Crutchfield, Charles Harvey, 1912-1998. Charles Crutchfield awards 1968-1982.

Title: Charles Crutchfield awards 1968-1982.

The collection consists of a small assortment of papers (certificates of appreciation, awards, etc.), and photographs concerning the career of Charles Crutchfield, from 1968 to 1982. The collection also contains three 3-dimensional objects.

ArchivalResource: 12 linear inches

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North Carolina Fund. North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Charlotte Area Fund).

Title: North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Charlotte Area Fund).

Records (about 4,000 items) relating to the Charlotte Area Fund (CAF), a North Carolina Fund community action program in the Charlotte, N.C., area. Included are reports on CAF operations and many files relating to CAF's manpower program, which caused conflict between the Charlotte Bureau of Employment, Training, and Placement and the Opportunities Industrialization Center. 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 of WBTV editorials, 1966-1968.

ArchivalResource: ca. 187000 items (330.0 linear ft)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34847524 View