North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Salisbury-Rowan Community Service Council) [manuscript].

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North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Salisbury-Rowan Community Service Council) [manuscript].

Records (about 2,000 items) relating to the Salisbury-Rowan Community Service Council (SRCSC), a North Carolina Fund community action program in Salisbury and Rowan County, N.C. Included are files on a legal services program and a home managers program. There are also files relating to a change in directors. Also included is a memo fom Reginald Durante of the North Carolina Fund to Heslip Lee, SRCSC director, expressing his concern that SRCSC's multipurpose centers were providing only recreation and day care programs, not real organization of the poor, and that their boards of directors had too many middle-class people.

About 187000 items (330.0 linear ft).

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Salisbury-Rowan Community Service Council.

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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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