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New Bern’s War on Poverty Brings a Privy and Hope
In Craven County North Carolina a rural antipoverty effort funded by the North Carolina Fund and later the Economic Opportunity Act aims to lift impoverished families. Projected results include sanitary privies daycare centers and a strawberry cooperative while youth and job programs create work and training opportunities amid challenging race relations.
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New Bern
N.C
John Curmon
Jona Curmon
Sargent Shriver
Neuse
John Curmnon
Carmen
Craven County
Craven
North Carolina Fund
Office of Economic Opportunity
North Carolina
Tryon Palace
Blackbeard
Ambrose Burnside
John Carmon
Farmers Home Administration
John Curmons