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John Pinkett Sr. to President Lotus Coffman on his Son’s removal from Pioneer Hall
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
Statement of Facts Regarding International Boarding House
Warren Grissom Report on Housing
“Student Protest Rally is Today” in Minnesota Daily about Segregated Housing
“Dean Ford Ends Housing Ban”
Tracking Negro and Jewish Students from Out of State
Montage of Nurses Hall
Warren Grissom
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.
J.E. Patrick, Student Union Director to G.R. Higgins, U of Minnesota Student Union Manager Regarding “Confidential Survey on ‘colored and Jewish Students.”
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

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