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Walter Coffey
President Guy Stanton Ford
Dean Anne Dudley Blitz
Ray P. Chase
Dean Edward E. Nicholson
Governor Elmer A. Benson
Floyd B. Olson
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
Sheldon Kaplan
Garland D. Kyle
B. Warner Shippee
Arnold B. Walker
Howard Kahn
Esther Leah Medalie Ritz
Edward Nicholson to J.C. Poucher about disposing of ” Political Mail”
Anne Blitz Letter to Charlotte Crump about “This Free North”
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
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
Chase List of Student Forum, 1935
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”
“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
“Students Will Get Ballots For Peace Polls”
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”
Gopher Communist
“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”
“Dean Ford Ends Housing Ban”
“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
“Race Prejudice Exists at U”
Notes on Radicalism at the University of Minnesota, Ray Chase Files
Strike for Peace Flyer, 1935
Armistice Day Proclamation Flyer, 1935
Declaration of Rights of Youth, Poster
Abolish ROTC Poster
“Anti-Olympic Move Stirs U of M Campus”
Peace Demonstration, 1941 campus photograph
Dean E. G. Williamson
Editorial: “Mr. Weber Won’t Allow It—But the Constitution Does”
“Council Asks Ouster of Nicholson, ‘U’ Dean”
Letters to the Editor—for and against Dean Nicholson
Martha Wright Wilson
University of Nebraska YWCA Letter to Dean Blitz
Theodore Christianson
“Legion Post Asks Removal of Nicholson”
“Marxian Club is Recognized for One Year”
Student Forum, Gopher Yearbook 1935
Confidential Report on Social Problems Club to Ray Chase
Spying on Socialist Club
“Student Groups Echo Nicholson Ouster Views”
“Move for Nicholson Open Hearing Defeated”
Editorial: “Keep Your Hands Off, Council”
President Lotus Coffman to All-University Council President Theodore Christianson Rejecting the call for integrated dorms.
Dean Edward Nicholson’s Statement on Radical Organizations
Formation of the Negro Student Council is Announced by the Minneapolis Spokesman
Martha Wright and Friends at 1938 Graduation

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