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No restrictions. Open for research.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Adelaide Walters Papers, #4293, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Acquired 1981

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• African Americans--Civil rights--North Carolina.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--History.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.). Board of Aldermen.
• City councils--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• City planning--North Carolina.
• Civic leaders--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Community Church of Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Democratic Party (N.C.)--History--20th century.
• Inter-Faith Council for Social Service (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Regional planning--North Carolina.
• Social service--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Walters, Adelaide, 1907-1981.
• Women city council members--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Women in politics--North Carolina.

Adelaide Walters of Chapel Hill, N.C., was a local political activist, volunteer, civic leader, and Democratic Party officer.

Correspondence, writings, clippings, and other papers of Adelaide Walters. These papers are mostly political correspondence and records relating to various organizations, especially the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen, the Community Church of Chapel Hill, and the Chapel Hill Interfaith Council for Social Service. They treat such topics as civil rights of African Americans in Chapel Hill, the North Carolina Democratic Party, women in politics, and urban and regional planning.