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Lee Lorch fonds Lorch, Grace K. Lonergan, 1903-1974. Engels
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1. Mrs. Grace Lorch - Remarks at Bill of Rights Dinner 1957 2. Letters to the Editor about Mrs Grace Lorch (Dec. 1975 Town + Village) 3. Prof. Lee Lorch - Statement to Fisk Board 1954 4. Prof. L. Howard Bennett - Statement to Fisk Board 1955

File consists of copies of documents and letters to the editor regarding Grace Lorch and Lee Lorch and their civil rights activities in Tennessee and Arkansas between 1954 and 1957.

Lee Lorch fonds

  • F0524
  • Archief
  • 1935-2007, 1950-1995 predominant

Fonds consists of Professor Lorch's professorial and personal papers as a mathematician, academic, civil rights activist and humanitarian. Records document his life in all these spheres and include the following: correspondence from family, friends, academic colleagues and fellow activists; records of his legal battles at various colleges and universities in the defence of civil rights and academic freedom including challenges from the House Committee on Un-American Activities; records that document his and his wife's activism in landmark American events such as the integration of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1954, and the fight for equal rights for blacks in housing in US cities; professorial records and his work as a respected mathematician and scholar; and related books, journals and pamphlets accumulated by him during his decades of work in these areas. Records have been arranged by the archivist into the following series.

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