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FEATURED
Student Rights
Abstract of Student Affairs on Left-Wing Groups
Minnesota Daily, “Extra!” End of Drills
Are They Communists or Catspaws: A Red Baiting Pamphlet
Notes on Radicalism at the University of Minnesota, Ray Chase Files
FEATURED
Segregated Housing
Tracking Negro and Jewish Students from Out of State
President Lotus Coffman, University of Minnesota, Letter to L.O. Smith of the NAACP
“This Free North” in University Literary Review
“Dean Ford Ends Housing Ban”
Renee Rappoport Testimony to JCRC on Dental Hygiene
Report of Council Committee on Negro Discrimination
FEATURED
Political Surveillance
Dean Edward E. Nicholson
Letters to the Editor—for and against Dean Nicholson
Editorial: “Keep Your Hands Off, Council”
“Legion Post Asks Removal of Nicholson”
Joe Toner
FEATURED
Student Movements
Benjamin Lippincott
Dean Edward E. Nicholson
“Marxian Club is Recognized for One Year”
“Senator Claims ‘Documentary Proof’ of Communist Activity Among Members of U. Faculty”
Editorial: “Mr. Weber Won’t Allow It—But the Constitution Does”
Lotus D. Coffman
William Middlebrook
Walter Coffey
President Guy Stanton Ford
Dean Anne Dudley Blitz
Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe
Ray P. Chase
Dean Edward E. Nicholson
W. Gertrude Brown
George B. Leonard
Governor Elmer A. Benson
Floyd B. Olson
Cecil Newman
Harold Stassen
William Schaper
Benjamin Lippincott
Langston Hughes
Hans Luther
Lester Breslow
Lee Loevinger
Robert Loevinger
Arnold Eric Sevareid
Rosalind Matusow Belmont
John Pinkett, Jr.
Charlotte Crump Poole
Sherman Dryer
Joe Toner
Richard M. Scammon
Helene Hilyer Hale
Renee Rappaport
Sheldon Kaplan
Garland D. Kyle
B. Warner Shippee
Arnold B. Walker
Howard Kahn
Esther Leah Medalie Ritz
William Middlebrook to Mrs. McBeath Requesting Information About Segregated Housing for Negro Men
Edward Nicholson to J.C. Poucher about disposing of ” Political Mail”
John Pinkett Sr. to President Lotus Coffman on his Son’s removal from Pioneer Hall
Edward Nicholson to Ray Chase about New Board of Regents
Lotus D. Coffman to Roy Wilkins
Letter to Cornell University Regarding Coffman Union and Antisemitism
Anne Blitz Letter to Charlotte Crump about “This Free North”
Lucy Slowe letter to Anne Blitz Regarding Student Housing
Lotus D. Coffman Response to Warner Shippee Regarding Request for Conscientious Objection
Warner Shippee to Edward E. Nicholson Requesting that He be Excused from Required Drill as a Conscientious Objection
Malcolm Willey to Lotus D. Coffman about the Minnesota Daily and student demonstrations
Ray Chase to Edward Nicholson requesting information on the funding for Langston Hughes’ Lecture
Edward Nicholson to Ray Chase in which he gives Names of Faculty He Labels of Interest
Nicholson’s History of Radical Movements Requested by Regent Bell
Lucy Diggs Slowe Reply to Anne Blitz Regarding Students
Anne Blitz to Lucy Slowe Responding to Query
Lucy Diggs Slowe Letter to Anne Blitz Responding to Letter
President Lotus Coffman, University of Minnesota, Letter to L.O. Smith of the NAACP
William Middlebrook to Lotus Coffman Opposing Integrating Nurses Hall
Dean Lyon Supports Integrating Nurses Hall to President Coffman
J.J. Bohlander to R.M. West about Jewish Girls in Boarding Houses
Chase List of Student Forum, 1935
Benson ad in The American Jewish World
Stassen Ad in The American Jewish World
Benson Campaign Responds to Pamphlet
Are They Communists or Catspaws: A Red Baiting Pamphlet
Chase List of Peace March Participants, May 23, 1934
“Poster Restriction Rules Announced by Senate Group”
“Luther’s Twin Cities Visit Rouses Anti-Nazis”
“Board of Regents Exonerates Dr. William Schaper”
“Governor Benson Names Four New Men As ‘U’ Regents”
“‘Internal’ Affair, Mr. President?” Editorial by Rabbi Aronson
“Luther Says Everything’s OK”
Statement of Facts Regarding International Boarding House
Warren Grissom Report on Housing
The Senate Committee Solves the Propaganda Problem
Propaganda Denied Place in Post Office Boxes by Senate
“Arts Student Ousted for Failure to Attend Drill”
“Students Will Get Ballots For Peace Polls”
“Hughes to Discuss Economic Problem of Modern Negro”
Lieutenant Colonel Adam E. Potts Spies for Chase and FBI
FBI Report on American Students Union
Abstract of Student Affairs on Left-Wing Groups
Chase on U of M “Existing Situation”
Keep America American, Chase Flier
Gopher Communist
Renee Rappoport Testimony to JCRC on Dental Hygiene
“Coffey U Prexy Reverses Stand”
Letter to the Editor, Minnesota Daily, by Alumnus Harold Field Responding to Segregated Student Housing
“Statements Issued in Housing Dispute”
“Negroes Protest Discrimination,” A Letter Regarding the International House
“Negro Discrimination on Campus Charged”
“Student Protest Rally is Today” in Minnesota Daily about Segregated Housing
“Coffey Will Not Address Groups on Discrimination”
“U Students Hear Protest” Regarding Segregated International House
“Dean Ford Ends Housing Ban”
“U Policy Permits Negroes to Use Housing Units”
“Student Council to Fight Race Bias”
“Students Give Lessons to Teachers”article in the Minneapolis Spokesman about Segregated Housing
Report of Council Committee on Negro Discrimination
“This Free North” in University Literary Review
Pioneer Hall Publicity Material
“Race Prejudice Exists at U”
Boarding House Preference Negro, Jew
Tracking Negro and Jewish Students from Out of State
Physicals of Negro and Jewish Students
Notes on Radicalism at the University of Minnesota, Ray Chase Files
Minnesota Daily, “Extra!” End of Drills
Strike for Peace Flyer, 1935
Armistice Day Proclamation Flyer, 1935
ROTC Drills in Minneapolis Star
“Luther’s Visit Protested by Pickets”, Photograph
Anti-Drill in Gopher Yearbook
Declaration of Rights of Youth, Poster
Calmenson Sisters in Honor Society, 1923
Students at Hillel House 1946, University of Minnesota
Cover of Antisemitic File about Coffman Union
Montage of Nurses Hall
Board of Regents Who Supported Segregation
Farmer-Labor Moving Sign
And the Wolf Chewed Up All the Children
“No Foreign Entanglements” Political Cartoon
Abolish ROTC Poster
“Anti-Olympic Move Stirs U of M Campus”
Peace Demonstration, 1941 campus photograph
Warren Grissom
Malcolm Willey
Dean E. G. Williamson
“Willey’s Confidential Statement to Coffey”
Editorial: “Mr. Weber Won’t Allow It—But the Constitution Does”
The first letter to the Minnesota Daily Regarding housing discrimination
“Council Asks Ouster of Nicholson, ‘U’ Dean”
Letters to the Editor—for and against Dean Nicholson
Martha Wright Wilson
Benjamin N. Moore
C.T.R. Nelson
Lena Olive Smith
Maybeth H. Paige
David Cooperman
L.O. Smith to President Lotus Coffman
University of Nebraska YWCA Letter to Dean Blitz
Roy Wilkins
Samuel Scheiner
R. Augustine Skinner
Theodore Christianson
“Legion Post Asks Removal of Nicholson”
“Marxian Club is Recognized for One Year”
“Senator Claims ‘Documentary Proof’ of Communist Activity Among Members of U. Faculty”
Anne Blitz Letter to University of Nebraska YWCA
Ray Chase to Henry Veeder about his “Research” Institute and Promises Information
Ray P. Chase to Edward Nicholson About Regents
Ray Chase to Edward Nicholson About Influencing The Choice of Regents
Student Forum, Gopher Yearbook 1935
Ray Chase Letter to Edward Nicholson about Political Influence, December 1936
The Citizens Alliance of Minneapolis
Confidential Report on Social Problems Club to Ray Chase
V. Mohns, University Administrator Spies on Socialist Club
Spying on Socialist Club
Ray Chase Seeks to Collaborate with Harry A. Jung, Notorious Extremist Antisemite
“Student Groups Echo Nicholson Ouster Views”
“Move for Nicholson Open Hearing Defeated”
Editorial: “Keep Your Hands Off, Council”
Ray Chase Asks Edward Nicholson to Find a Student to Research Farmer-Labor Iron Range Election Bribery
Edward Nicholson to Ray Chase Regarding Fund From Ohio State University of Minnesota Game
Ray Chase to Edward Nicholson Requesting Information from the University of Minnesota About Proceeds of a Charity Football game
President Walter Coffey to Heads of Citizens’ Committee Promising the Integration of the International House
President Lotus Coffman to All-University Council President Theodore Christianson Rejecting the call for integrated dorms.
“Letters Protesting Segregated Housing”
Dean Edward Nicholson’s Statement on Radical Organizations
Father Charles Coughlin
Lloyd MacAloon
J.E. Patrick, Student Union Director to G.R. Higgins, U of Minnesota Student Union Manager Regarding “Confidential Survey on ‘colored and Jewish Students.”
Survey Results in 1939 of Student Union Directors Secretly Tracking “Negro” and Jewish Student Enrollments in 36 Universitis
The 1939 Survey of Northern and Eastern Universities Reveals No Segregated Dormitories
Formation of the Negro Student Council is Announced by the Minneapolis Spokesman
Martha Wright and Friends at 1938 Graduation
Regent Fred B. Snyder Writes to Regent Pierce Butler about Dean Nicholson’s Surveillance of the Seekers Club
Eunice V. Nielsen Spies on the Seekers Club for Dean Edward Nicholson
Lester Breslow and Robert (Richard) Scammon on the Pluralism of the Student Left
Chase Attacks the University of Minnesota as a “Laboratory of Communism”
Lester Breslow’s FBI File About the University of Minnesota
Cartoonist of “Popeye the Sailor Man” Weighs in on the Fight for Student Reform
Dean Nicholson Refuses to Abide by the Student Vote to Reform the Senate Committee on Student Affairs
Federal Post Office supports Dean Nicholson’s Right to Withhold Mail
Progressive Council Files Complaint with Federal District Court Against Dean Nicholson
Board of Regents’ 2019 Resolutions on Building Namings
Student Protest Stickers, 2019
Regents Pursue Own Historical Research, Minnesota Daily
“A Campus Divided” Exhibition Original Poster
Exhibition in Andersen Library
John Wright at Regents Meeting
U. Officials Silent on Council’s Try for Dean Ouster
UMN Student Silent March
Student Silent March Flyer
Unite the Right March
Post-it notes at Exhibition
Student Activists at Board of Regents Meeting
“University President Wants to Rename Buildings,” Star Tribune
“It is ‘political correctness’,” Letter to the Editor
“Renaming Buildings at the U,” An Opinion Piece by Riv-Ellen Prell
“Regents Pursue Own Historical Research,” Minnesota Daily
“With Vote on Building Name, U Regents Assert Orwellian Control,” Steven S. Foldes PhD Editorial
Board of Regents Policy on Naming
Board of Regents Meeting Minutes, April 26, 2019
Change Coffman Name Petition
“Proposal to Rename U of M Building Faces Pushback,” Star Tribune
Teach-in Schedule Draft in Support of Changing Building Names
Katharine Gerbner Twitter Thread
Minnesota Student Association Resolution Supporting the Task Force Report on Building Names and Institutional Memory
Hearing Urged for Nicholson, Minneapolis Star
MSA Student President Hopes Coffman Renamed
President and Provost’s Memo Regarding Regents’ First Meeting about Building Names
Patriot League Defends ‘U’ Dean, Minneapolis Star
Minnesota Student Association Resolution to Rename Coffman, December, 2017
Minnesota Student Assocation’s Statement Responding to Regents’ Attacks on Task Force Members in 2019
Rename Racists Flyer
John Wright’s Speech at Board of Regents Protest
Resolutions and Votes by Board of Regents on Task Force Report
Spokesman-Recorder Reported on the Opening Panel of A Campus Divided Exhibition and featured Professor John Wright
U Students Call for Renaming Coffman Union
Senate Social Concerns Statement on Regents Meeting
UMN Task Force Report Cover Page

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