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| Educator Resources on the Milwaukee Fair Housing Marches for Grades K-12 |
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| Learn about the Society's ongoing partnership with March On, Milwaukee to commemorate the fair housing movement and to promote education on local topics. |
| Poet and Temperance Advocate |
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| Biography of Wisconsin poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox. |
| Brief biography of Philip Danforth Armour who established one of the world's largest meat packing firms. |
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| Brief biography of Philip Danforth Armour who established one of the world's largest meat packing firms. |
| Lumberman, Financier and Congressman |
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| Biography of Isaac Stephenson who was a lumberman, financier and congressman. |
| Industrialist and Businessman |
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| Biography of Milwaukee industrialist and businessman Louis Allis. |
| Inventor |
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| Biography of Ole Evinrude, a Norwegian-American inventor who created the first outboard motor. |
| United States Supreme Court Justice |
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| Biography of William H. Rehnquist, who was born in Milwaukee and went on to serve as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| Librarian, Lecturer, Reformer and Author |
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| Biography of Lutie Eugenia Stearns, librarian, lecturer, reformer and author who helped establish the Wisconsin Free Library Commission. |
| Civil Rights Advocate and Legislator |
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| Biography of Lloyd A. Barbee, Milwaukee civil rights advocate and legislator. |
| Read a brief description of the Milwaukee 14 when Vietnam War protesters set fire to 10,000 draft files. |
| Read about the pottery industry in Wisconsin, which began when English potters emigrated in the 1840s and operated until the early 20th century. |
| Learn about the German Austrianswho emigrated to Wisconsin in the latter half of the 19th century, mainly settling in cities and towns. |
| Learn about the Slovenians who settled in cities in the southern and eastern parts of the state in large numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
| Learn about the Lithuanians who emigrated to Wisconsin in the early 20th century and again after World War II. |
| Learn about the Croatian immigrants who came to Wisconsin, primarily between 1890 and 1914. |
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