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William Middlebrook to Mrs. McBeath Requesting Information About Segregated Housing for Negro Men
Edward Nicholson to J.C. Poucher about disposing of ” Political Mail”
John Pinkett Sr. to President Lotus Coffman on his Son’s removal from Pioneer Hall
Edward Nicholson to Ray Chase about New Board of Regents
Lotus D. Coffman to Roy Wilkins
Letter to Cornell University Regarding Coffman Union and Antisemitism
Anne Blitz Letter to Charlotte Crump about “This Free North”
Lucy Slowe letter to Anne Blitz Regarding Student Housing
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
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
Nicholson’s History of Radical Movements Requested by Regent Bell
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
J.J. Bohlander to R.M. West about Jewish Girls in Boarding Houses
L.O. Smith to President Lotus Coffman
University of Nebraska YWCA Letter to Dean Blitz
Anne Blitz Letter to University of Nebraska YWCA
Ray Chase to Henry Veeder about his “Research” Institute and Promises Information
Ray P. Chase to Edward Nicholson About Regents
Ray Chase to Edward Nicholson About Influencing The Choice of Regents
Ray Chase Letter to Edward Nicholson about Political Influence, December 1936
Ray Chase Seeks to Collaborate with Harry A. Jung, Notorious Extremist Antisemite
Ray Chase Asks Edward Nicholson to Find a Student to Research Farmer-Labor Iron Range Election Bribery
Edward Nicholson to Ray Chase Regarding Fund From Ohio State University of Minnesota Game
Ray Chase to Edward Nicholson Requesting Information from the University of Minnesota About Proceeds of a Charity Football game
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”
J.E. Patrick, Student Union Director to G.R. Higgins, U of Minnesota Student Union Manager Regarding “Confidential Survey on ‘colored and Jewish Students.”
Regent Fred B. Snyder Writes to Regent Pierce Butler about Dean Nicholson’s Surveillance of the Seekers Club
Eunice V. Nielsen Spies on the Seekers Club for Dean Edward Nicholson

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