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Student Activism in the Context of the 1930s
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Lotus D. Coffman
Dean Anne Dudley Blitz
Ray P. Chase
Dean Edward E. Nicholson
W. Gertrude Brown
Governor Elmer A. Benson
Benjamin Lippincott
Lester Breslow
Lee Loevinger
Robert Loevinger
Arnold Eric Sevareid
Charlotte Crump Poole
Sherman Dryer
Joe Toner
Richard M. Scammon
Helene Hilyer Hale
B. Warner Shippee
Arnold B. Walker
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”
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
Dean Lyon Supports Integrating Nurses Hall to President Coffman
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 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”
Lieutenant Colonel Adam E. Potts Spies for Chase and FBI
FBI Report on American Students Union
Abstract of Student Affairs on Left-Wing Groups
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”
“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
Anti-Drill in Gopher Yearbook
Declaration of Rights of Youth, Poster
Calmenson Sisters in Honor Society, 1923
Cover of Antisemitic File about Coffman Union
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
Maybeth H. Paige
David Cooperman
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
Student Forum,
Gopher
Yearbook 1935
Confidential Report on Social Problems Club to Ray Chase
V. Mohns, University Administrator Spies on Socialist Club
Spying on Socialist Club
“Student Groups Echo Nicholson Ouster Views”
“Move for Nicholson Open Hearing Defeated”
Editorial: “Keep Your Hands Off, Council”
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
Formation of the Negro Student Council is Announced by the Minneapolis Spokesman
Martha Wright and Friends at 1938 Graduation