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| This Milwaukee born woman successfully advocated for progressive reforms in the educational system and was influential in the Milwaukee socialist movement. |
| Community: | Sumner |
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| County: | Jefferson |
| Historic Name: | Busseyville Grange Hall |
| Reference Number: | 140599 |
| 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. |
| Community: | Fort Atkinson |
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| County: | Jefferson |
| Historic Name: | First National Bank |
| Reference Number: | 74506 |
| 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. |
| Community: | Janesville |
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| County: | Rock |
| Historic Name: | Lovejoy and Merrill-Nowlan Houses (Allen P. Lovejoy House) |
| Reference Number: | 46974 |
| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Lutie Eugenia Stearns, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
| Introduction to the Citizen Petition collection |
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| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the governor in the executive chamber. |
| View the collection of images of Wisconsin women in a variety of activities: farm work, canning, suffragism, photography, war work and civil rights. |
| Community: | Maple Bluff |
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| County: | Dane |
| Historic Name: | Robert M. La Follette House |
| Reference Number: | 5428 |
| Community: | Richland Center |
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| County: | Richland |
| Historic Name: | Julia B. and Fred P. Bowen House |
| Reference Number: | 68230 |
| Read about Black history in Wisconsin. There are many links to original documents, pictures, eyewitness accounts, and other primary sources. |
| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Helen Farnsworth Mears, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
| Educator, University President and Author |
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| Brief biography of John Bascom, president of the University of Wisconsin from 1874 to 1887. |
| Governor and Progressive |
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| Discover how Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette and the Progressive Movement reformed state government and the Republican Party. |
| A Good Mother, a Good Friend and a Good Woman |
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| Discover Juliet Severance, the free-thinking Whitewater physician who was involved with the anti-slavery movement, temperance and women's rights. |
| Community: | Richland Center |
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| County: | Richland |
| Historic Name: | H.T. BAILEY STORE AND OPERA HOUSE |
| Reference Number: | 68951 |
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