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National or State Registers Record

321 E MEINECKE AVE

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

321 E MEINECKE AVE

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Lloyd Barbee House
Reference Number: 223966
Photograph

Marc's Big Boy Protest

Date: 1963
Description: Group of people, probably including NAACP Youth Council members, picketing outside Marc's Big Boy restaurant. Lloyd Barbee is second from the left.
Photograph

Milwaukee Public School Board Walk Out

Date: 01 21 1964
Description: Lloyd Barbee, NAACP state president, walking out of a Milwaukee Public School Board meeting when Chairman Harold W. Story refused to allow the participatio...
Property Record

2374-2376 N RICHARDS ST

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 114860
Historical Essay

Barbee, Lloyd A. (1925-2002)

Civil Rights Advocate and Legislator
Biography of Lloyd A. Barbee, Milwaukee civil rights advocate and legislator.
Photograph

Two People's Feet

Date: 1966
Description: Candid shot of two people's feet taken at the Meinecke Avenue School.
Photograph

Father Groppi

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

4456 N TEUTONIA AVE

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Garden Homes School
Reference Number: 228171
Photograph

Fair Housing March

Date: 
Description: March for fair housing in Milwaukee. Father James Groppi is on the right.
Photograph

MUSIC March Against School Segregation

Date: 02 1964
Description: Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) members carrying signs and marching against school segregation in Milwaukee.
Photograph

School Desegregation Pickets

Date: 1964
Description: A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation.
Photograph

Father Groppi in Police Wagon

Date: 1966
Description: Father Groppi is seated in the back of a police wagon with police officer after being arrested in front of his parish for the second night in a row.
Photograph

Fair Housing March

Date: 
Description: Marchers carrying signs bearing the names of Milwaukee suburbs during a CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) march for fair housing in Milwaukee. They are pa...
Property Record

1706 W HIGHLAND AVE

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Edward A. MacDowell School
Reference Number: 237849
Historical Essay

Civil Rights Movement in Wisconsin

Brief history of the Civil Rights Movement in Wisconsin.
General Information

March On, Milwaukee

Educator Resources on the Milwaukee Fair Housing Marches for Grades K-12
Learn about the Society's ongoing partnership with March On, Milwaukee to commemorate the fair housing movement and to promote education on local topics.
Property Record

110 E WISCONSIN AVE

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Fred Pabst Building
Reference Number: 31662
Property Record

2760 N 1ST ST

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Robert Fulton Junior High School
Reference Number: 226033

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