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Charlotte Adams was a founder and former president of the Chapel Hill branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She organized literacy classes during the Depression, marched on civil rights picket lines in the 1960s, and stood outside the Chapel Hill post office every Wednesday from 1967 through 1973 against the Vietnam War.
Library of Congress name authority: Adams, Charlotte, 1902-2005 ↗
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… Southern Oral History Program group interview recorded April 11, 1974, with pacifist and civil rights worker Igal Roodenko joined by Joseph Felmet (1921-1994) and Charlotte Adams, questioned by Jacquelyn Hall and Jerry Wingate over about two and a quarter hours.
… Collection contains administrative materials, subject files, publications, photographs, scrapbooks, and audiovisual materials that document the history, activities, advocacy, and interests of Triangle WILPF and its chairpersons, especially Charlotte Adams and Vivian Plonsey.
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