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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
Cecil Newman
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Langston Hughes
Lester Breslow
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Charlotte Crump Poole
Joe Toner
Helene Hilyer Hale
Garland D. Kyle
Arnold B. Walker
Howard Kahn
William Middlebrook to Mrs. McBeath Requesting Information About Segregated Housing for Negro Men
John Pinkett Sr. to President Lotus Coffman on his Son’s removal from Pioneer Hall
Lotus D. Coffman to Roy Wilkins
Anne Blitz Letter to Charlotte Crump about “This Free North”
Lucy Slowe letter to Anne Blitz Regarding Student Housing
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
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
Are They Communists or Catspaws: A Red Baiting Pamphlet
Statement of Facts Regarding International Boarding House
Warren Grissom Report on Housing
“Hughes to Discuss Economic Problem of Modern Negro”
Keep America American, Chase Flier
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
Declaration of Rights of Youth, Poster
Cover of Antisemitic File about Coffman Union
Montage of Nurses Hall
Warren Grissom
Malcolm Willey
Dean E. G. Williamson
“Willey’s Confidential Statement to Coffey”
The first letter to the Minnesota Daily Regarding housing discrimination
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
Anne Blitz Letter to University of Nebraska YWCA
V. Mohns, University Administrator Spies on Socialist Club
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
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
Martha Wright and Friends at 1938 Graduation