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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
Size | 16.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 10,000 items) |
Abstract | Youth Educational Services, Inc., was a Durham, N.C., non-profit organization that worked with college students in North Carolina to develop grass-roots educational and social action programs aimed at the state's poor and disadvantaged citizens. The collection contains the papers of Youth Educational Services, Inc., and includes correspondence, financial records, and material on related organizations and programs. Included are minutes of board meetings and annual membership meetings, proposals, newsletters, staff memorandums, photographs, reports, and printed material. |
Creator | Youth Educational Services, Inc. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Adam Fielding and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2011; Nancy Kaiser, January 2022
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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Youth Educational Services, Inc., was a Durham, N.C., non-profit organization that worked with college students in North Carolina to develop grass-roots educational and social action programs aimed at the state's poor and disadvantaged citizens. Outreach efforts included the Neighborhood Tutor Program, the Grass-roots Association of Students, the Student Legal Action Movement, and the Youth Program.
Back to TopThe collection contains the papers of Youth Educational Services, Inc., and includes correspondence, financial records, and material on related organizations and programs. Included are minutes of board meetings and annual membership meetings, proposals, newsletters, staff memorandums, photographs, reports, and printed material.
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Original finding aid |
Board meetingsIncludes minutes of board and annual membership meetings, by-laws and articles of incorporation. |
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Box 2 |
Correspondence and other papersIncludes materials related to the "North Carolina Intercollegiate Council for Human Rights," the North Carolina Fund, and other programs and foundations. |
Box 3 |
Conference materials, proposals, newsletters, and other papersIncludes staff memorandums. |
Box 4 |
Correspondence |
Box 5 |
Correspondence and proposalsAlso includes photographs from the Poor Professors Conference and a Raleigh tutorial brochure. |
Box 6 |
Financial recordsIncludes CEO contract, annual audits, and other papers. |
Box 7-8
Box 7Box 8 |
Correspondence and other papers relating to local tutoring projectsIncludes printed material from other North Carolina organizations involved in tutoring and related projects. |
Box 9-11
Box 9Box 10Box 11 |
Correspondence and other papers relating to tutoring programs outside of North CarolinaIncludes reports, articles, brochures and other materials. |
Box 12-13
Box 12Box 13 |
Papers relating to tutoring programs and other organizations outside of North CarolinaIncludes reports, articles, brochures and other materials. |
Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-3807/1 |
Photographs |
Photographs (OP-PF-3807/1)
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