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African American Activism
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President Guy Stanton Ford
W. Gertrude Brown
President Lotus Coffman, University of Minnesota, Letter to L.O. Smith of the NAACP
Statement of Facts Regarding International Boarding House
Warren Grissom Report on Housing
“Coffey U Prexy Reverses Stand”
“Statements Issued in Housing Dispute”
“Negro Discrimination on Campus Charged”
“Student Protest Rally is Today” in Minnesota Daily about Segregated Housing
“Coffey Will Not Address Groups on Discrimination”
“Dean Ford Ends Housing Ban”
“U Policy Permits Negroes to Use Housing Units”
“Student Council to Fight Race Bias”
Report of Council Committee on Negro Discrimination
“Race Prejudice Exists at U”
Boarding House Preference Negro, Jew
Montage of Nurses Hall
Dean E. G. Williamson
“Willey’s Confidential Statement to Coffey”
President Lotus Coffman to All-University Council President Theodore Christianson Rejecting the call for integrated dorms.
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

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