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Seeds of Sustenance: The North Carolina Fund
| By Leda Hartman |  | Listen to this story | | Listen to the 30 minute documentary |
April 11, 2005
For five turbulent years in the 1960s, North Carolina pioneered a program that would become a model for the federal government's War on Poverty. The North Carolina Fund broke new ground in many ways. It faced the link between race and poverty head on. It created ways for poor people to help themselves. And it challenged the economic and political power structure of the Old South. We learn about the Fund through the story of Woodard Enterprises, a cooperative garden project run by and for African Americans in a poor, rural corner of the state. Reporter Leda Hartman tells the story of the North Carolina Fund - its ideals, its legacy, and its unfinished business.
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