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North Carolina Fund. North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Manpower Programs) [manuscript].

Title: North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Manpower Programs) [manuscript].

Records (about 42,000 items) of manpower programs supported by the North Carolina Fund. Included are Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort (MITCE) headquarters and field staff files, documenting efforts to assist families in meeting their employment and other family needs by using resources available in Nash, Edgecombe, Richmond, Robeson, Scotland, Craven, and Guilford counties, N.C. Proposals and reports give an overview of the program's operation. There are also records of the institutional training and on-the- job-training programs. Mobility program records include proposals, reports, and correspondence concerning a program that recruited unemployed rural people in coastal and mountain counties, developed jobs for them in industrial areas, and assisted them in moving and adapting to their new job and living environments. Files on the Manpower Development Corporation (now MDC, Inc.) contain much material relating to operational studies on computer job matching, program planning and budgeting, housing, basic education, industrial training capacity, skill training, Work Oriented Retraining Centers (WORC), New Careers, transportation, and outreach techniques and supportive services in manpower programs.

ArchivalResource: About 187000 items (330.0 linear ft).

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Billy E. Barnes Photographic Collection, 1959-1996

Title: Billy E. Barnes Photographic Collection, 1959-1996

Collection contains images made by white photographer Billy E. Barnes taken during his career from 1959 to 1996. The majority of the images are black-and-white 35mm negatives, photographic prints, and 35mm transparencies (slides). Images were taken across the state of North Carolina and depict poverty in both rural and urban areas, racial tension, experiments in integrated education, poverty prevention/alleviation programs, and the social/political changes that occurred in the state during this span of almost four decades. A large portion of the collection documents the activities of the North Carolina Fund (1963-1968) as well as related organizations and programs that outlasted the Fund project. Images were taken across the entire state, but with a concentration in Durham and Orange County. There are also some images of locations outside North Carolina. Barnes's original descriptions are used when available (from personal photographic log) and, whenever possible, individuals, organizations, events, locations, and dates have been identified. Known groups, organizations, and individuals are listed as subject access points, as are identified locations.

ArchivalResource: 35.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 80,000 items)

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North Carolina Fund. North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971.

Title: North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971.

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 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. Note that there are separate catalog records for the Administrative Series; the Volunteer Programs Series; the Training Programs Series; the 11 Community Action Programs; the Manpower Programs Series; the Research Department Series; the Study Committee Series; and the Public Information Department Series.

ArchivalResource: About 187000 items (330.0 linear ft).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34847481 View

North Carolina Fund. North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Study Committees Series).

Title: North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Study Committees Series).

Leadership Training Committee records (about 500 items) document community leadership development laboratories, the Urban Training Center, and Affiliated Training and Action Centers for New Mission. Voter Education Project 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, 1964; the Learning Institute of North Carolina, 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 North Carolina Leadership Conference on Economic Development. Housing Committee records (about 1,000 items) include materials on the Low-Income Housing Development Corporation and a computer-aided design system to produce good, cheap housing. Committee on Manpower and Economic Development records (about 5,000 items) include a 1967 food price survey and 1966-1968 cost-benefit study of the Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort program.

ArchivalResource: About 187000 items (330.0 linear ft)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34847495 View