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

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34847475

Administrative and financial records (about 32,000 items), including policy statements; Board of Directors minutes and other records; correspondence, speeches, and other files of Executive Director George Hyndman Esser (1921- ) and other staff members; records of meetings and conferences; proposals and grants; materials documenting the Fund's relationship with the Ford Foundation, the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Foundation for Community Development, the Low-Income Housing Development Corporation, and other organizations; subject files; clippings, audit reports; and financial correspondence and other financial records. There is also material about Congressmen Jim Gardner and Nick Galiafianakis's 1967 attacks on Fund activities in Durham, N.C., and earlier controversies over political activity of staff members in areas served by Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development and Craven Operation Progress. Other material relates to "How North Carolina Whites and Blacks View: Each Other, Government and Police, Housing, Poverty, Education, and Employment," an opinion poll conducted by Oliver Quayle & Company in 1968. Also included are proposals and grant applications for housing, education, community development, job training, leadership, and rural development programs; the North Carolina Voter Education Project; and proposals from the State of Franklin Health Council, Inc.

ca. 187000 items (330.0 linear ft)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7366932

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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United States. Office of Economic Opportunity

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Ford foundation

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Philanthropic organization established in 1936 by Henry and Edsel Ford from profits of the Ford Motor Company. From the description of Grant files, [ca. 1936-1986]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155532303 ...

State of Franklin Health Council.

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North Carolina Voter Education Project

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Galifianakis, Nick, 1928-

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Durham, N.C. resident. From the description of A guide and commentary, 1967. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39100414 ...

Foundation for Community Development

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Esser, George H., Jr., 1921-2006

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George Hyndman Esser Jr. was born in Norton, Va., in 1922. Esser was a life-long civil rights advocate and crusader against poverty who led the North Carolina Fund under Governor Terry Sanford in the 1960s. He was also a professor of public law and government at the Institute of Government, University of North Carolina, 1948-1963; executive director of the North Carolina Fund, 1963-1969; program officer for the South for the Ford Foundation; 1969-1972; and executive director of the Southern Regi...

Craven Operation Progress, Inc.

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Nash-Edgecombe Economic Development, Inc.

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North Carolina Fund

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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. Dept. of Labor; U.S. Dept. of Health, E...

Gardner, James Carson, 1933-

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United States Representative of Rocky Mount, N.C.; later lieutenant governor of North Carolina. From the guide to the James Carson Gardner Congressional and Political Papers, ., 1967-1968, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) U.S. Representative of Rocky Mount, N.C.; later lieutenant governor of North Carolina. From the description of James Carson Gardner congressional and political papers, 1967-1968 [manuscript]...

Low Income Housing Development Corporation of North Carolina

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