Terry Sanford - Second Emancipation Speech, January, 1963

In January,1963--on the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation--North Carolina governor Terry Sanford called for a second emancipation that would free the state's citizens--black and white alike--from the twin scourges of poverty and Jim Crow. Sanford's determination to uproot what one contemporary called the "poverty-segregation complex" became the defining principle of the North Carolina Fund, an antipoverty agency that the governor established in the summer of 1963. Over the next five years, the Fund served as a laboratory for the national War on Poverty. For more on the Fund, see Robert R. Korstad and James L. Leloudis, To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). http://www.torightthesewrongs.com

(Source: Videotape #1a in the Terry Sanford Papers #3531, Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Used by permission.)

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• To Right These Wrongs
• North Carolina Fund
• 1960s
• Good Neighbor Councils

[Soulthinker2007]

Sanford is one of the best governors North Carolina ever had.