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[Identification of item], in the William M. Adler Papers #70000, North Carolina Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from William M. Adler in January 2020 (Acc. 20200130.3).

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• Adler, William M.
• Carolina Brown Lung Association.
• Community newspapers--North Carolina.
• Halifax County (N.C.)--Periodicals.
• Halifax County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
• Northampton County (N.C.)--Periodicals.
• Northampton County (N.C.)--Social conditions.

William M. Adler provided the following biographical note in February 2020.

William M. Adler, a white author and journalist, has written for numerous publications, including Esquire, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Texas Monthly, and the Texas Observer, and is the author of three books of narrative nonfiction: Land of Opportunity, Mollie's Job, and The Man Who Never Died. In addition to co-founding The People's Voice, he co-founded Monteverde.fm, a community radio station in rural Monteverde, Costa Rica, and produced the documentary film Sweet Home Monteverde.

Adler was born in New York in 1957. He is a 1979 graduate of Duke University. He lives with his wife and son in Colorado.

The William M. Adler Papers consist chiefly of organizational records for The People's Voice: The Newspaper for All the People of Halifax and Northampton Counties, a community newspaper focused on worker rights, environmental issues, and small town politician malfeasance. William M. Adler and others founded and published the newspaper from 1982 to 1986. Records include board minutes; by-laws; grant and other fundraising correspondence; documents relating to the North Carolina Community Owned Newspaper Network; newspaper clippings about the newspaper, and its coverage of a worker-owned credit union, police brutality, and other topics; and printed and other miscellaneous materials relating to the business operations of the newspaper. There are also materials relating to Adler's work in support of the Carolina Brown Lung Association.