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| 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. |
| 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. |
| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Ben Barkin, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
| Copeland Service Station, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
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| Using tax credits, a neglected 1938 Milwaukee gas station was reinvented as a coffee shop, preserving its Streamline Moderne style. |
| Wisconsin History Maker Award |
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| Learn about the co-founder of Manpower, Inc, the world's largest temporary job service company who actively promoted peace in the Middle East. |
| Conflict on the Homefront: Wisconsin During World War I |
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| Learn more about Victory Berger by examing 1917 editorial selections from his newspaper, Milwaukee Leader |
| Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story' |
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| Chapter 9 supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story' |
| 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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| Teach students to use census population schedules in researching life in Wisconsin communities. |
| Conflict on the Homefront: Wisconsin During World War I |
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| Learn more about the pre-WWI peace movement by having students take a closer look at Julia Grace Wales |
| Date: | 08 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of six customers celebrating Bootleg Days at Arthur Janik's tavern "The Balcony Inn" at Lincoln and 33rd Streets. Arthur Janik was the propri... |
| Date: | 02 10 1969 |
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| Description: | Green Bay Packers football coach, Vince Lombardi, being interviewed at the professional football writers dinner. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (1931-) and social activists at NAACP March, marching east up Wisconsin Avenue. |
| 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: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin family inside their new bomb shelter. |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn fire wagon coming down a cobblestone street in Milwaukee. The fact that automobiles are also in the photograph suggests that the transition to ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Motor Corps of the National League for Women's Service. The corps performed errands and other services for all organizations engaged in war activities, ans... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers on the bottling line at the Schlitz Brewery. |
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