Letter to the Editor, Minnesota Daily, by Alumnus Harold Field Responding to Segregated Student Housing

Alumnus Harold Field writes a letter to the editor, appearing in the Minnesota Daily on April 24, 1942. As a draftee, Field argues that by urging him to sacrifice for democracy, the University administration should also commit itself to the reversal of its policies of racial discrimination. He responded to campus protests against the creation of the “International House, whose purpose was to to provide segregated housing for African American male students.

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CreatorHarold FieldSourceUniversity of Minnesota Archives, Harold Field, "Letter to the Editor: Opposes Negro Discrimination," Minnesota Daily, April 24, 1942, p. 8.Date24/04/1942RightsImage is available courtesy the University of Minnesota Archives. For additional information about the use or re-use of this image please contact the University of Minnesota Archives at www.lib.umn.edu/uarchives.CoverageUniversity of MinnesotaTime Period1940s