- 4-H began the transition from school-based clubs to community-based clubs.
- The last regional 4-H camp for African-Americans was held in Washington, D.C.
- The first African-Americans participated in the National 4-H Conference and Report to the Nation.
- The first national workshop was held on how to expand participation of rural and urban disadvantaged youth in 4-H programs.
- The second drive for the 4-H Development Fund was held to support camping, scholarships, awards, and the IFYE program.
- 4-H Programs expanded to include urban youth, reflecting the declining rural population in the state.
- Home Demonstration work changed its focus from farmwomen to low-income families in the state.
- 4-H clubs officially desegregated at the state level, although it happened later in the local clubs.
- Home Economics clubs officially desegregated, and the two associations were joined and renamed the North Carolina Extension Homemakers Association (later renamed North Carolina Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences).
- State 4-H Club Week was renamed State 4-H Congress.
- The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) was started in Home Economics to help improve the nutrition of low-income families.
- Home economics became a department under the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service at North Carolina State University. It was renamed the Family and Consumer Sciences Department in 1995.