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| Date: | 01 14 1964 |
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| Description: | Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing. |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Lloyd Barbee and others gathered in front of the Milwaukee County Courthouse for a rally addressing Civil Rights, education, housing, and police brutality.... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (1930-) and school desegregation demonstrators marching in. Milwaukee holding signs that read "Stop School Segregation" |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (center) and the NAACP participate in a civil rights march. Police are armed and escorting the protestors. The marchers are passing an ... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (1931-) and social activists at NAACP March, marching east up Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Housing and Racism |
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| Discover the history of the struggle for Civil Rights in Wisconsin |
| from Tools for Teaching the History of Civil Rights in Milwaukee and the Nation (Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2015) |
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| Date: | 12 05 1947 |
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| Description: | George Weaver, secretary of the national CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination, appearing at the Wisconsin State CIO convention. |
| Date: | 08 29 1966 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march. |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Edward A. MacDowell School |
| Reference Number: | 237849 |
| Date: | 02 1964 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) members carrying signs and marching against school segregation in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of protesters march down a street, led by a car. They are protesting school segregation. |
| Civil Rights Advocate and Legislator |
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| Biography of Lloyd A. Barbee, Milwaukee civil rights advocate and legislator. |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Father Groppi is seated in the back of a police wagon with police officer after being arrested in front of his parish for the second night in a row. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Freedom House in flames after Milwaukee Police fired tear gas into the building. Two armed officers stand in front of the burning building. Both officers h... |
| Date: | 09 08 1967 |
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| Description: | Protesters at a rally for fair housing. One man is holding a sign that reads: "We Demand Fair Housing Now," while others behind him are using a bullhorn. |
| Date: | 01 21 1964 |
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| Description: | Lloyd Barbee, NAACP state president, walking out of a Milwaukee Public School Board meeting when Chairman Harold W. Story refused to allow the participatio... |
| A Traveling Display |
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| Crossing the Line examines the practices and prejudices that led to segregation in Milwaukee and chronicles the fair housing movement. |
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