North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Tri-County Community Action) [manuscript].

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North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Tri-County Community Action) [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34847500

Records (about 2,000 items) relating to Tri-County Community Action (TCCA), a North Carolina Fund community action program in Robeson, Richmond, and Scotland counties, N.C. Included are administrative files and materials documenting struggles over representation of the area's African-American and Native American populations on the Board of Directors and staff, as well as information about programs for African American and Native American people in the tri-county area. Prominent programs of TCCA included Head Start, Neighborhood Youth Corps, neighborhood organizers, and work training and other manpower programs.

About 187000 items (330.0 linear ft).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7366947

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Community Action Program (U.S.)

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Tri-county Community Action, Inc.

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Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.)

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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...