Date: | 08 1964 |
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Description: | Lloyd Barbee posing in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
Date: | 1966 |
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Description: | Lloyd Barbee and others gathered in front of the Milwaukee County Courthouse for a rally addressing Civil Rights, education, housing, and police brutality.... |
Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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Lloyd A. Barbee, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
Date: | 1963 |
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Description: | Man in a hat and long coat holding a sign opposing desegregation in schools. Possibly in Milwaukee. |
Civil Rights Advocate and Legislator |
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Biography of Lloyd A. Barbee, Milwaukee civil rights advocate and legislator. |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | Father James Groppi with young civil rights activists. They have all joined hands and are singing. |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | Four people seated at a desk which has a poster on it advertising Freedom Day School Withdrawal, set for Monday, May 18th, 1964. |
Date: | 06 13 1961 |
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Description: | Large group of protesters in the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda with many carrying signs in favor of Civil Rights for African-Americans. One man holds a s... |
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Description: | March for fair housing in Milwaukee. Father James Groppi is on the right. |
Date: | 02 1964 |
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Description: | Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) members carrying signs and marching against school segregation in Milwaukee. |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation. |
Date: | 1966 |
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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. |
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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... |
Date: | 04 29 1965 |
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Description: | An Assembly bill to establish a full-time Equal Opportunity Commission got 5 1/2 hours of pro and con testimony at a public hearing before the Assembly Jud... |
Brief history of the Civil Rights Movement in Wisconsin. |
A Traveling Display |
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"We Stand on Their Shoulders" explores moments when women in Wisconsin gained political rights and highlights key leaders. |
Read about Black history in Wisconsin. There are many links to original documents, pictures, eyewitness accounts, and other primary sources. |
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