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| Civil Rights Advocate and Legislator |
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| Biography of Lloyd A. Barbee, Milwaukee civil rights advocate and legislator. |
| Examine the oral history and migration experiences of Rubie Bond, an African-American resident of Beloit featured on Wisconsin Public Television |
| Brief history of the Civil Rights Movement in Wisconsin. |
| Housing and Racism |
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| Discover the history of the struggle for Civil Rights in Wisconsin |
| 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. |
| Read about Black history in Wisconsin. There are many links to original documents, pictures, eyewitness accounts, and other primary sources. |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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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