Brief history of the Civil Rights Movement in Wisconsin. |
Black Voting Rights Activist |
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Biography of Ezekiel Gillespie who was active in Milwaukee's small Black community, especially on voting rights issues. |
Civil Rights Advocate and Legislator |
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Biography of Lloyd A. Barbee, Milwaukee civil rights advocate and legislator. |
Brief history of Black Thursday (November 21, 1968). |
The Civil Right's Leader Shows his Support |
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Discover the connection Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King had with the 1960s protests in Milwaukee. |
Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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Collage featuring likeness of civil rights activist Father James Edmund Groppi by artist Gloria Adair of Milwaukee, 1966. (Museum object #1993.37.1) |
Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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Desk used by Milwaukee Alder Vel Phillips, made by the Northwestern Furniture Company for Milwaukee City Hall, 1895. (Museum object #2007.16.1) |
Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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Plaque commemorating the passage of the 1915 Seaman's Act. (Museum object #1942.530) |
Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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Land of the Freed-up Woman American flag banner made from bras, 1971. (Museum object #2000.79.1) |
Learn about the 7th Wisconsin Historical Society director who developed civil rights documentation, local history preservation and Old World Wisconsin. |
Read an overview of this pivotal event in the nation's civil rights era |
Lee una breva historia de Lucha por la Justicia para los Trabajadores Agrícolas. |
Images relating to Daisy Bates, former Arkansas NAACP President |
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View photographs from the collection of Daisy Bates, an American civil rights activist, publisher and writer. |
View an extensive image collection about this early social leadership center that focused on labor organization, and later, civil rights. |
View images produced by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, while they were challenging a white, supremacist delegation. |
Housing and Racism |
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Discover the history of the struggle for Civil Rights in Wisconsin |
Read about Black history in Wisconsin. There are many links to original documents, pictures, eyewitness accounts, and other primary sources. |
Civil Rights Law |
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Learn about the Milwaukee based lawyer who won two of Wisconsin's most important civil rights cases and was on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. |
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