20th Century

Letter Regarding the Admission of Women to College of the Holy Cross in 1970

Primary Source Set from Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Intro by Dr. Hannah R. Abrahamson, scanned by Rebecca Buckley

Staff and graduate students in the Physics Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute found the following records from the 1970s. They detail the work of Dr. Leo Louis Martello, who advocated for witchcraft as a religion as well as an anti-racist, anti-homophobic praxis. The following document contains a copy of his newsletter Wica, lecture notes, a list of people who attended a talk that Martello gave, and assorted records of twentieth-century witchcraft.