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E. M (Elie Maynard) Adams

1919–2003 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as E. M. Adams → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Orange County’s antipoverty program begins, 19641964 · 5 events · Orange County's antipoverty program began in 1964 with a slow start for Community Action, Inc., a proposed privately financed biracial corporation meant to work on Chapel Hill's racial and economic problems. In April the county commissioners, while saying they favored its aims, put off endorsing it over objections to the makeup of its 18-member board. By mid-May the commissioners and the Chapel Hill aldermen had named members, and in June Carrboro's commissioners voted 3 to 2 to take part. In September the county commissioners unanimously created an Economic Opportunity Act advisory committee to plan a county program and seek federal funds, and in October they named its fifteen members.

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  1. Chapel Hill citizens organize Community Action, Inc., for long-range work on race relations A new Chapel Hill organization for long-range work on race relations took the name Community Action, Inc., in late March, dropping its first choice, Community Progress, Inc., after its organizers saw a New Haven program of that name in the press. Under temporary chairman E. Maynard Adams it planned to seek the endorsement of the county commissioners, the Chapel Hill school board, the Merchants Association and the Carrboro town board. People: E. M (Elie Maynard) AdamsThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 26, 1964, p. 11
  2. County commissioners table a request to endorse Community Action, Inc. The Orange County commissioners put off endorsing and naming members to Community Action, Inc., a proposed privately financed biracial corporation meant to work on Chapel Hill's racial and economic problems. Every commissioner said he favored its aims, but objections to the makeup of its 18-member board, including two seats for the Chapel Hill Ministerial Association, stalled the vote. People: E. M (Elie Maynard) Adams, Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner), Harvey BennettThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 9, 1964, p. 5
  3. Chapel Hill aldermen name three members to the Community Action board The aldermen chose Gene Strowd as their member and E. Maynard Adams and Frank Graham School principal Woodrow Edmonds as citizen members of the 18-member board of Community Action, Inc. Mrs. George Taylor of the Mayor's Human Relations Commission, its sponsor, expected the program under way by fall, and the county commissioners had by then chosen their three members as well. People: E. M (Elie Maynard) AdamsThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 14, 1964, p. 3

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Maynard Adams, southern philosopher of civilization

Blackburn, Glenn · 2009 · Mercer University Press

Glenn Blackburn's biography of E. M. Maynard Adams, the philosopher on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who died in 2003. Chapters follow him from a southern farm through Harvard to his writing on personhood, value realism, public philosophy and the humanities. Published in 2009 by Mercer University Press, 368 pages with portraits.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Adams, E. M (Elie Maynard), 1919-2003.

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E.M. Adams papers, 1937-1997

Adams, E. M. (Elie Maynard), 1919-2003 · 1937

Papers of the philosopher Elie Maynard Adams, 1919 to 2003, covering 1937 to 1997 in 15,000 items and 26.5 linear feet, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4814. Topics include the teaching of philosophy in North Carolina, university faculty life, and the history of the Department of Philosophy at Chapel Hill, with further material on North Carolina family social life and customs.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Adams, E. M. (Elie Maynard), 1919-2003.

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