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Newspaper Article/Clipping

City will get shore rights

Date: 1927-02-02
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Photograph

Young Protesters Praying

Date: 06 18 1992
Description: Children are praying at a reproduction rights protest. They're wearing headbands that bear slogans about abortion.
Historical Essay

Civil Rights Movement in Wisconsin

Brief history of the Civil Rights Movement in Wisconsin.
Photograph

CORE Picketers

Date: 01 14 1964
Description: Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing.
Photograph

Lloyd Barbee at Milwaukee County Courthouse

Date: 1966
Description: Lloyd Barbee and others gathered in front of the Milwaukee County Courthouse for a rally addressing Civil Rights, education, housing, and police brutality....
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Anneke, Mathilde, Franziska (Giesler)

Date: 1817 - 1884
County: Milwaukee
Photograph

NAACP March with Police Escort

Date: 1967
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 ...
Photograph

Father Groppi and Demonstrators

Date: 1968
Description: Father James Groppi (1930-) and school desegregation demonstrators marching in. Milwaukee holding signs that read "Stop School Segregation"
Print

Mickie Mouse Animal Crackers, Label

Date: 08 16 1934
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration from the Quality Biscuit Company. Features a cartoon drawing of a mouse holding a micr...
Historical Essay

Desegregation and Civil Rights in Wisconsin

Housing and Racism
Discover the history of the struggle for Civil Rights in Wisconsin
Photograph

Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Leaders

Date: 06 16 1992
Description: Maggi Cage (right), a pro-choice leader, and Janel Parshall (left), a pro-life Wisconsin advocate, stand in front of a crowd of protesters at a reproductiv...
Photograph

Father Groppi

Date: 1968
Description: Father Groppi in the midst of a group of people.
Photograph

Father James Groppi at NAACP March

Date: 1968
Description: Father James Groppi (1931-) and social activists at NAACP March, marching east up Wisconsin Avenue.
Classroom Material

Civil Rights Movement Lesson Plans

from Tools for Teaching the History of Civil Rights in Milwaukee and the Nation (Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2015)
National or State Registers Record

321 E MEINECKE AVE

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Lloyd A. Barbee House
Reference Number: 100003940
Photograph

Aerial View of Downtown

Date: 1955
Description: Aerial view of downtown, including railroad tracks in foreground.
Photograph

Backyard with Fence and Wall

Date: 10 1980
Description: Backyard, fence and wall, North Weil Street.
Photograph

Race Relations '66

Date: 09 25 1966
Description: Still from an episode of the WTMJ program "Human Rights," which was titled "Race Relations '66." Four people: Wesley L. Scott, executive director of the Mi...
Photograph

Marine Plaza

Date: 1961
Description: View of building under construction from a boat on the river.
Photograph

Small Garage

Date: 10 1980
Description: Small garage with houses behind on North Weil Street.

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