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| Housing and Racism |
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| Discover the history of the struggle for Civil Rights in Wisconsin |
| View an extensive image collection about this early social leadership center that focused on labor organization, and later, civil rights. |
| Civil Rights Advocate and Legislator |
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| Biography of Lloyd A. Barbee, Milwaukee civil rights advocate and legislator. |
| 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 |
| Learn about the LGBT rights movement in Wisconsin. This article also contains links to other articles about the history of the LGBT movement in WI. |
| View images produced by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, while they were challenging a white, supremacist delegation. |
| 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. |
| Brief history of Black Thursday (November 21, 1968). |
| 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) |
| Read about Black history in Wisconsin. There are many links to original documents, pictures, eyewitness accounts, and other primary sources. |
| 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. |
| The Natchez Poverty Report |
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| View this gallery of photographs from an unpublished 1960s report on living conditions in the African-American neighborhoods of Natchez, Mississippi. |
| 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) |
| First Woman Notary Public |
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| Discover the story of Wisconsin's first woman notary public Louise Williams who provided legal counsel for southern Wisconsin after the Civil War. |
| View the collection of images of Wisconsin women in a variety of activities: farm work, canning, suffragism, photography, war work and civil rights. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Parade tunic worn by Wisconsin suffrage supporter during Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, 1916. (Museum object #1956.1450) |
| Last Socialist to Run a Major American City |
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| Learn about Milwaukee's third and last Socialist mayor. Read about the many improvements made to the city of Milwaukee under his leadership. |
| Learn how Frank Zeidler propelled social, economic and structural improvements in Milwaukee as America's last Socialist Mayor in 1948 - 1960. |
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