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

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

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

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.

About 187000 items (330.0 linear ft)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Advancement School.

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Low Income Housing Development Corporation of North Carolina

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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...

North Carolina Leadership Conference on Economic Development.

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McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991

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Floyd B. McKissick (1922-1991) was born in Asheville, N.C. He was an attorney, businessman, and civil rights leader. McKissick married Evelyn Williams, with whom he had four children: Joycelyn; Andree; Floyd, Jr.; and Charmaine. From the description of Floyd B. McKissick papers, 1940s-1980s. WorldCat record id: 39668375 Floyd B. McKissick (1922-1991), the son of Ernest Boyce and Magnolia Thompson McKissick, was born in Asheville, N.C., on 9 March 1922. He earned...

Bertie County Voter Education Project.

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Manpower Improvement Through Community Effort (Program)

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Urban Training Center.

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North Carolina Voter Education Project

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Learning Institute of North Carolina

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