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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
---- PRESIDENT Moorfield Storey VICE-PRESIDENTS Archibald H. Grimke
Rev. John Haynes Holmes Bishop John Hurst Arthur B. Spingarn Oswald Garrison Villard NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THEADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE70 Fifth Avenue, New YorkTelephone: Chelsea 9386 EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ---- 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
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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.
MWO-PMW