3 collections related to Environmental protection -- North Carolina

This collection includes clippings, honors, and other materials related to Norman Camp's career between the 1970s and 2010s as an educator, environmentalist, and community activist, as well as speeches by Dr. Camp delivered to organizations in Raleigh, North Carolina. A significant part of the collection relates to the preservation of Walnut Creek Wetlands by Partners for Environmental Justice, of which Dr. Camp is founder and chair. Some of the items are photocopies. Norman C. Camp (1933- ) is a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, who founded Partners for Environmental Justice, a grassroots organization in southeast Raleigh that preserved Walnut Creek Wetlands for the benefit of the historically black neighborhood surrounding it. Dr. Camp received his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 1979. He worked as an educator and administrator and was employed by the State of North Carolina in the Department of Human Resources and of Public Instruction. He has served on boards and commissions related to education, community development, and environmental conservation. Less

This collection consists of organizational records, reference material, and archived web content that North Carolina Rail-Trails (NCRT) both created and used to facilitate the operation of the organization. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, NCRT meeting minutes and agendas, brochures, flyers, several newsletters, including "Little Toot," newspaper and magazine articles, essays for "Little Toot" by Anthony Reevy, past historian and vice chair of NCRT, work plans, reports, studies, proposals, maps, essays on North Carolina rail-trails and railways, legal documents including financial statements and property deeds, organizational development and strategic planning records and copies of ratified senate and house bills. North Carolina Rail-Trails (NCRT), a volunteer organization supported by dues, gifts, and grants, began as a steering committee at the North Carolina Greenways Conference in Charlotte on June 3, 1988. North Carolina Rail-Trails, headquartered in Durham, became incorporated on March 12, 1990. NCRT is a charter member of the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits and the Environmental Federation of North Carolina, a Durham-based organization that endeavors to both protect and preserve the state's natural resources. Less