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Organized according to interview and visit, Willits goes to the Southern United States to survey various southern schools. He interviews members of the college faculty and determines which departments are the strongest. The schools surveyed include University of Virginia, University of North Carolina, Duke University, North Carolina State College and North Carolina College for Negroes. Topics covered in this diary include rural poverty, black studies, populations, and World War II. Included in the diary are copies of "Subject Index to Joseph H. Willits ' Dixie Diary", "Racial Relationships in North Carolina", "Farm Labor Shortages and Maximum Production", "Agricultural Interests of Nonfarm Rural Leaders", "Twenty Years of Migration From Farms" and "Rural Industrialization Creates New Problems".

Organized according to interview and visit, DeVinney discusses projects and proposals with professionals in the field of social science. The interviews describe the background of the interviewee, their current research and Devinney's thoughts or actions on whether or not these proposals would be acceptable RF research grant projects. He is involved in the progress of the RF programs, development of new projects and financing current and future research. Conferences on "National Economic Policies and the Common Market", "Inflation and Growth in Latin America" and Research in Family Planning" are attended at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center ("Villa Serbelloni") in Bellagio, Italy. The month of December details a trip to the Southern United States.

Organized according to interview and visit, DeVinney discusses projects and proposals with professionals in the field of social science. The interviews describe the background of the interviewee, their current research and Devinney's thoughts or actions on whether or not these proposals would be acceptable RF research grant projects. He is involved in the progress of the RF programs, development of new projects and financing current and future research. This month details a trip to the Southern United States. Visits include Norfolk, Virginia; Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte and Greensboro North Carolina as well as Atlanta, Georgia, Gainesville and Tallahassee, Florida. Topics discussed on this trip include desegregation and the civil rights movement as DeVinney visits various colleges and newspapers in the southern regional council.

International Affairs Program [IA]; Africa & The Middle East [AME]

Reviews the Foundation's history of support for four community development corporations: Drew Economic Development Corporation, Los Angeles; Task Force for Historic Preservation and the Minority Community, Richmond, Va.; Opportunities Industrialization Cent

A two-part program is discussed. 1) a development program for a small number of selected predominantly Negro colleges; 2) a program of support for a variety of programs and projects in a variety of Negro colleges.

Assessment of the Metropolitan Applied Research Center, which was established to assist the poor in northern cities.