Lee Lorch fonds
Lorch, Lee
Civil Rights -- United States
African Americans
Race relations
Discrimination in housing
Sexism in higher education
Mathematics
Bessel functions
Academic freedom
Racism in higher education
Women in mathematics
Retirement, Mandatory
McCarthyism
Anti-communism
York University professors, lecturers, and educators
Black Canadian studies
Lorch, Grace K. Lonergan, 1903-1974.
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.
1935-2007, 1950-1995 predominant
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File 2007-054/070(012)is closed until thirty years after death of correspondents.