Summary Information

Title: Leo Koch Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1943-1972

Creator:

• Koch, Leo, 1916-

Call Number: Mss 782

Quantity: 5.4 c.f. (14 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Papers, mainly 1956-1970, of Leo Koch, a biologist and activist who participated in the anti-war, civil liberties, civil rights, and counterculture movements of the 1960s. Concerning his controversial dismissal from the faculty of the University of Illinois in 1960 for publicly condoning premarital sex are correspondence, reports, clippings, and hearing transcripts. Also included are correspondence, minutes, clippings, and press releases documenting many organizations with which he was involved such as the American Humanists Association, the Liberal Party (New York), New York League for Sexual Freedom, Rockland County (NY) Committee to End the War in Vietnam, the School of Living (Brookville, Ohio), and Veterans for Peace. Also included is personal correspondence, newsclippings, a diary and World War II service records, information concerning experiments with LSD, and draft and printed copies of writings on scientific and general topics.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00782

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