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Name: Civil Rights History
Start: 2024-05-08
End: 2024-05-08
Location: Milwaukee Public Library Zablocki Branch

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Part of Speakers Bureau

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Milwaukee Public Library Zablocki Branch

3501 W Oklahoma Ave

Milwaukee, WI 53215

dsikor@milwaukee.gov

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The Wisconsin Historical Society Speakers Bureau offers an exciting opportunity for our historians, curators and authors to visit your community and share the stories of our great state.

Fred Reed was a member of the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council Commandos, leading the struggle for open housing legislation in 1967 to 1968, and served as a member of the March On Milwaukee 50th Anniversary Coordinating Committee. He was the recipient of the Milwaukee Times' 2017 Black Excellence Award and was honored by For My Brothers for his significant contributions to the Black community, and in 2017, he and his fellow NAACP Youth Council members received the Milwaukee ACLU's Lifetime Achievement Award. He brings to this role and to additional community service a lifelong history of work to make the world a better, more just, and safer place.

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