North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Operation Breakthrough) [manuscript].

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Operation Breakthrough) [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34847488

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 Porjhect, 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 Galifianakis 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, 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 activities who presented grievances to the Durham City Council were African Americans.

About 187000 items (330.0 linear ft).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7366940

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Related Entities

There are 10 Entities related to this resource.

United Organizations for Community Improvement.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61c8f9c (corporateBody)

Education Improvement Project.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sj83kc (corporateBody)

North Carolina Fund

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vf1q04 (corporateBody)

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-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x35p7j (person)

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]...

Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s80k2n (corporateBody)

Community Action Program (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tn1hnx (corporateBody)

New Careers.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s5390j (corporateBody)

Galifianakis, Nick, 1928-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6445jrt (person)

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

Fuller, Howard, 1941-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qr4wtz (person)

Operation Breakthrough.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66m9qrv (corporateBody)