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
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976 - Collection:
- AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
- Contributing Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
Southern Regional Council
- Creator:
- AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Southern Regional Council
Derian, Patricia M.
Kehrer, E. T., 1921-1996
Esser, George H., Jr., 1921-2006
Suitts, Steve - Date of Original:
- 1976
1977
1978 - Collection:
- AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
- Contributing Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
Southern Regional Council
- Creator:
- AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Southern Regional Council
Kehrer, E. T., 1921-1996
Esser, George H., Jr., 1921-2006
Suitts, Steve - Date of Original:
- 1977
- Collection:
- AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
- Contributing Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
Southern Regional Council
- Creator:
- AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Southern Regional Council
Derian, Patricia M.
Kehrer, E. T., 1921-1996
Esser, George H., Jr., 1921-2006 - Date of Original:
- 1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976 - 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
Poor People's Corporation--Correspondence, COFO, 1964, Oct. 15-1964, Dec. 27, undated (Poor People's Corporation records, 1960-1967, Archives Main Stacks, Mss 172, Box 1, Folder 2)
- Creator:
- Poor People's Corporation
- Date of Original:
- 1964-10
1964-11
1964-12 - Collection:
- Freedom Summer Digital Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Wisconsin Historical Society
Oral history interview with George Esser, June-August 1990
- Creator:
- Esser, George H.
- Date of Original:
- 1990-06/1990-08
- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)