Adelaide Walters

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1. 1950-1951 Adelaide Walters is president of the Chapel Hill League of Women Voters Adelaide Walters, who had come to the university for graduate study in 1940 and stayed on as a staff member and research assistant, served as president of the Chapel Hill League of Women Voters in 1950 and 1951. She was president of the state league from 1954 to 1956. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: Adelaide Walters Papers, 1954-1981
2. May 7, 1957 Roland Giduz and Adelaide Walters are elected to the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen In a heavy turnout that also re-elected Mayor Oliver K. Cornwell and approved a $500,000 bond issue, voters re-elected aldermen Hubert Robinson and Paul Wager and chose two new members, Adelaide Walters and Roland Giduz. As low man among the winners, Giduz drew a two-year term. People: Roland Giduz, Paul W. Wager, Hubert Robinson, Oliver K. Cornwell, Adelaide Walters Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 10, 1957, p. 1 (Heavy Vote Approves Bond Issue and Ten Candidates for Office)
3. October 27, 1959 The Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission organizes The 15-member advisory commission from Orange, Durham and Wake counties held its organizing meeting, electing Chapel Hill's Mrs. Harold Walters secretary and Orville Campbell second vice chairman, both named by Mayor O. K. Cornwell, and making Research Triangle Park vice president Pearson Stewart of Chapel Hill its executive director. The chairmanship was to rotate yearly among the three counties. People: Adelaide Walters, Oliver K. Cornwell Place: Research Triangle region (Orange, Durham and Wake counties) · Also named: Orville Campbell, Pearson Stewart, Mrs. Harold WaltersThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 29, 1959, p. 12
4. May 8, 1961 McClamroch is sworn in as mayor and Joe Page is named to his aldermen seat McClamroch and three re-elected aldermen, Adelaide Walters, Paul Wager and Hubert Robinson, were sworn in at the Monday night meeting of the Board of Aldermen by Recorder's Court Judge William Stewart. The board named businessman Joe Page to the unexpired two year aldermen's term McClamroch left on becoming mayor, and elected Mrs. Walters mayor pro tem. People: Sandy McClamroch, Paul W. Wager, Hubert Robinson, Adelaide Walters Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Joe PageSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 11, 1961, p. 1 (Joe Page Gets Appointment To Board Of Aldermen)
5. January 13, 1964 Chapel Hill aldermen vote down a public accommodations ordinance The Board of Aldermen rejected, 4 to 2, an ordinance that would have required all town businesses to serve Black customers, and set up a nine-member committee on race relations instead. Integration leaders promised more demonstrations. People: Adelaide Walters Place: Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, January 14, 1964, p. 1
6. 1966-1973 Adelaide Walters chairs the Inter-Church Council's housing committee After leaving the Board of Aldermen, Adelaide Walters chaired the housing committee of the Inter-Church Council for Social Service (later the Inter-Faith Council) from 1966 to 1973. Her papers deal with civil rights for Black residents of Chapel Hill and with urban and regional planning. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Inter-Faith CouncilSearch the index · UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: Adelaide Walters Papers, 1954-1981
7. February 20 to 21, 1971 Martha Griffiths and Sheila Tobias press for women's equal rights at a conference at UNC The North Carolina Federation of Business and Professional Women held its 16th annual Spotlight on Women conference at UNC. Rep. Martha Griffiths, sponsor of the Equal Rights Amendment, called for legislatures rather than courts to secure women's equal rights, and Sheila Tobias, a founder of the National Organization for Women, described job segregation and other barriers facing working women; a panel of women faculty and former Chapel Hill alderman Adelaide Walters discussed women's roles. People: Adelaide Walters Place: Peabody Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Martha Griffiths, Sheila TobiasSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 22, 1971, p. 1
8. 1976 Adelaide Walters co-manages Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign in Orange County Adelaide Walters, a Democratic Party regional coordinator in the 1960s, was Orange County co-manager of Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign. Place: Orange County · Also named: Jimmy CarterSearch the index · UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: Adelaide Walters Papers, 1954-1981
9. 1983 Ground is broken for the Adelaide Walters Apartments Community Housing Alternatives, an organization created by the Inter-Faith Council, broke ground in 1983 for the Adelaide Walters Apartments in Chapel Hill, two years after Walters died. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Inter-Faith CouncilSearch the index · Inter-Faith Council for Social Service: History · Also: North Carolina Anvil (Durham): Hillsborough Parents Rap Demerit Rule, February 26, 1983, p. 2; The Daily Tar Heel, March 21, 1984, p. 3