Esser, George H., Jr., 1921-2006

Authoritative Name:
Esser, George H., Jr., 1921-2006
Biography:
George Esser was the assistant director of the University of North Carolina's Institute of Government, executive director of the North Carolina Fund, project adviser with the Ford Foundation, and the executive director of the Southern Regional Council. He was born into a comfortable Virginia coal family in 1920, but the Great Depression plunged his family into poverty. Esser used the G.I. Bill to enroll at Harvard Law School. After graduation, he moved to Chapel Hill to work with the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill. He was involved with the creation of the North Carolina Fund, a five-year community empowerment organization created with a grant by the Ford Foundation. Esser also worked to reorient the Southern Regional Council (SRC) in Atlanta before returning to North Carolina in the 1980s.--From Oral Histories of the American South biography.
Associated Subjects:
Esser, George H., Jr., 1921-2006
Archival Collections And Reference Resources:

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AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, correspondence, 1967-1976

Creator:
AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Kehrer, E. T., 1921-1996
Slaiman, Donald, 1919-2000
Hardesty, Doris G.
Kistler, Alan
Esser, George H., Jr., 1921-2006
Keenan, Joseph D.
Date of Original:
1967/1976
Collection:
AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
Contributing Institution:
Georgia State University. Special Collections

Georgia Citizen's Coalition on Hunger, correspondence, 1974-1978

Creator:
AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Kehrer, E. T., 1921-1996
Georgia Citizens' Coalition on Hunger
Lipscomb, Andrew J.
Pauley, Frances Freeborn, 1905-2003
Taylor, J. Randolph (John Randolph), 1929-
Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002
Nunn, Sam
Fitzgerald, Oleta Garrett
Esser, George H., Jr., 1921-2006
Southern Regional Council
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Presbytery of Atlanta
Abernathy, Ray
Bent, Rick
Date of Original:
1974/1978
Collection:
AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
Contributing Institution:
Georgia State University. Special Collections

Southern Regional Council [Annual Meeting], correspondence, 1974

Creator:
AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Kehrer, E. T., 1921-1996
Southern Regional Council
Esser, George H., Jr., 1921-2006
Date of Original:
1974
Collection:
AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
Contributing Institution:
Georgia State University. Special Collections

Southern Regional Council, [Education Steering Committee], correspondence, 1974

Creator:
AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Southern Regional Council
Herman, Alexis M., 1947-
Esser, George H., Jr., 1921-2006
Date of Original:
1974
Collection:
AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
Contributing Institution:
Georgia State University. Special Collections

Southern Regional Council, correspondence, 1971-1974

Creator:
AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Kehrer, E. T., 1921-1996
Southern Regional Council
Via, Emory F. (Emory Franklin), 1925-2003
National Assembly for Social Policy and Development
United States. Department of Labor
Esser, George H., Jr., 1921-2006
Cleghorn, Reese, 1930-2009
Bowie, Harry
Date of Original:
1971/1974
Collection:
AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
Contributing Institution:
Georgia State University. Special Collections

Southern Regional Council, correspondence, 1975-1976

Creator:
AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Kehrer, E. T., 1921-1996
Southern Regional Council
Via, Emory F. (Emory Franklin), 1925-2003
Esser, George H., Jr., 1921-2006
AFL-CIO. Industrial Union Department
Petkas, Peter J.
Henderson, Vivian Wilson, -1976
Date of Original:
1975/1976
Collection:
AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
Contributing Institution:
Georgia State University. Special Collections