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Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Ezekiel Gillespie. Gillespie was born in 1818 and died March 31, 1892. In 1866, Milwaukee's Ezekiel Gillespie successfully s... |
Date: | 1850 |
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Description: | Black and white copy print of a daguerreotype portrait of Ezekiel Gillespie. |
Black Voting Rights Activist |
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Biography of Ezekiel Gillespie who was active in Milwaukee's small Black community, especially on voting rights issues. |
Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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Ezekiel Gillespie, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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Description: | Text on negative sleeve reads: "'James Johnson, better known as Uncle Jimmie,' charter member and first and only sexton to 1893 of St. Mark's AME Church, M... |
Two Lawyers Spur Abolitionist Reform and Universal Voting Rights |
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Learn how Byron Paine and Halbert E. Paine used the power of law for radical abolitionist reform in mid-19th century 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. |
Learn more about African American history in Wisconsin |
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For Immediate Release |
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The Badger State has a rich, ever-evolving political history. |
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The Badger State has a rich, ever-evolving political history. |
Housing and Racism |
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Discover the history of the struggle for Civil Rights in Wisconsin |
Read about Black history in Wisconsin. There are many links to original documents, pictures, eyewitness accounts, and other primary sources. |
Celebrating 175 years of the Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers with the Wisconsin Historical Society |
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Celebrating 175 years of the Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers with the Wisconsin Historical Society |
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