Letter from Mary White Ovington to J. A. A. Burnquist, July 9, 1920.

Type of event: Lynchings

Location: Minnesota; United States

Addressee: J. A. A. Burnquist

Addressor: Mary White Ovington

Document date:

Document type: Correspondence

Documents: Letter from Mary White Ovington to J. A. A. Burnquist, July 9, 1920.

Citation:

Minnesota. Governor (1915-1921: Burnquist).
Records.
Subject Files (File 648c): Duluth Lynchings, 1920.
Letter from Mary White Ovington to J. A. A. Burnquist, July 9, 1920.

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NATIONAL OFFICERS
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PRESIDENT
Moorfield Storey

VICE-PRESIDENTS
Archibald H. Grimke
Rev. John Haynes Holmes
Bishop John Hurst
Arthur B. Spingarn
Oswald Garrison Villard

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE

ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE

70 Fifth Avenue, New York


Telephone: Chelsea 9386
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
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CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
Mary White Ovington
John R. Shillady, Secretary
J.E. Spingarn, Treasurer
Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, Director of Publications and Research
James Weldon Johnson,
Field Secretary
Walter F. White,
Assistant Secretary

July 9, 1920.

Governor J.A.A. Burnquist

President, St. Paul Branch
St. Paul, Minn.

My dear Governor Burnquist:--

I am writing to inform you that a committee from the Minnesota branches is calling upon you in regard to the Duluth lynchings, with a suggestion which has come from the National Headquarters. We sincerely hope that you may find it possible and advisable to comply with their request.
With high esteem, I am

Very sincerely yours,
Mary W. Ovington
Chairman of the Board.


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