Walter and Mary Jo Uphoff papers, 1924-1998

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Uphoff, Walter Henry, 1913-1998

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Papers of Walter and Mary Jo Uphoff, documenting Walter's interests and writings concerning the Kohler Company strikes, his teaching in the field of workers and labor education, and his active memb...

Papers of Walter and Mary Jo Uphoff, documenting Walter's interests and writings concerning the Kohler Company strikes, his teaching in the field of workers and labor education, and his active membership in the national and Wisconsin Socialist Party, including his candidacy for U.S. Senator on the state Socialist ticket in 1944. He also worked promoting the cooperative movement and good farm-labor relations and, with his wife Mary Jo, managed and operated Fellowship Farm Cooperative (first in Prairie du Sac, then in Oregon, Wis.). Both were active in peace organizations, supporting their son in his activities as a Freedom Rider, and in later years were interested in psychic phenomena and paranormal psychology. The Papers include correspondence, financial records, mailings and small publications, as well as research materials and drafts of Uphoff's books on the Kohler strikes.

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