North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Choanoke Area Development Association) [manuscript].

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North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Choanoke Area Development Association) [manuscript].

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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, 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.

About 187000 items (330.0 linear ft).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7366933

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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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...

Community Action Program (U.S.)

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Choanoke Area Development Association

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People's Program on Poverty.

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Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.)

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People's Conference on Poverty (1966 : Woodland, N.C.)

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