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Adelaide Walters served on the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen from 1957 to 1965, after a term as president of the Chapel Hill League of Women Voters. She chaired the board of the Community Church of Chapel Hill and, from 1966 to 1973, the housing committee of the Inter-Church Council for Social Service.
Source: UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: Adelaide Walters Papers, 1954-1981
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Civic papers of Adelaide Walters, 1907 to 1981, spanning 1954 to 1981, about 900 items in 1.5 linear feet, collection 4293 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. The papers document her work on the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen and her political life, covering city and regional planning, the civil rights movement in Chapel Hill, the Community Church, and the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service.
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