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WOMEN-IN-ACTION FOR THE PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE RECORDS. 3,100 items

Records of Women-In-Action for the Prevention of Violence and Its Causes, a nonprofit, interracial organization organized in Durham in 1968. Elna Spaulding was the group's founder and first president. The records reflect the organization's primary goals of easing racial tensions and smoothing the way for court ordered school desegregation in 1970. Restricted.