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Letter from Walter F. White to J. A. A. Burnquist, November 29, 1920.

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Letter from Walter F. White to J. A. A. Burnquist, November 29, 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: Watkins 8098
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
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Mary White Ovington
Chairman of the Board
James Weldon Johnson,
Secretary
Walter F. White,
Assistant Secretary
J.E. Spingarn, Treasurer
Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, Director of Publications and Research
William Pickens,
Associate Field Secretary

November 29, 1920.



Honorable J.A. Burnquist,
State Capitol,
St. Paul, Minn.

My dear Mr. Burnquist:

Will you be good enough to advise us if the report of the Duluth lynchings have been made public. If this has not been done, may we urge you to see that it is done, especially in view of the cases of the colored men which yet remain to be tried.

Very truly yours,
Walter White
Assistant Secretary

WFW:LGP

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