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| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| Description: | Bernice Lindsay is standing under a new reflected street name sign in her honor. She is wearing a coat, a hat, and a broach. Beside her is a fire hydrant. ... |
| Date: | 09 25 1966 |
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| Description: | Still from an episode of the WTMJ program "Human Rights," which was titled "Race Relations '66." Four people: Wesley L. Scott, executive director of the Mi... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Carpenter, assistant professor of Afro-American Education & Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is seated with his family. His ... |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Carver Apartments |
| Reference Number: | 109108 |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | BELMONT HOTEL |
| Reference Number: | 68966 |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | BRADLEY CENTER |
| Reference Number: | 41829 |
| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| Description: | President of the Milwaukee Common Council Martin E. Schreiber is at the podium. He is wearing a suit and glasses. On the left is Bernice Lindsay who is wea... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | The NAACP Milwaukee Branch's Freedom Fund Dinner Committee. The Freedom Fund Dinner is an annual NAACP fundraising event and awards ceremony for the organi... |
| Date: | 04 03 1968 |
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| Description: | Many people are standing or sitting in a room with "Walther for Mayor" signs on the wall. Some are looking at a television in the foreground. Caption reads... |
| Date: | 12 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of four of the five Wisconsin women given Carol Awards for outstanding civic and community service by the Junior Chamber of Commerce auxilia... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of people marching in the street with Father James Groppi. There is a man driving a Milwaukee police vehicle in front, and one man... |
| Housing and Racism |
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| Discover the history of the struggle for Civil Rights in Wisconsin |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Commerce Building |
| Reference Number: | 109055 |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Mt. Olive English Lutheran Church |
| Reference Number: | 109103 |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | |
| Reference Number: | 109063 |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Collage featuring likeness of civil rights activist Father James Edmund Groppi by artist Gloria Adair of Milwaukee, 1966. (Museum object #1993.37.1) |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Charles H. Stehling Co. |
| Reference Number: | 109071 |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | George C. Mansfield Company |
| Reference Number: | 109065 |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Church of the Living God |
| Reference Number: | 233511 |
| 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. |
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