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Description: | View from back of classroom towards Vel Phillips standing behind a desk. The chalkboard behind her reads: "Protective" and "Public Works." There is a map o... |
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Description: | Rear view of Vel Phillips sitting on a pier on a lake. She is wearing a shirt that says "Commando" on the back. Two unidentified women are sitting next to ... |
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Description: | Vel Phillips (left) is marching with the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council. In the background is the Lincoln Memorial. Other unidentified youth council members... |
Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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Description: | Vel Phillips is in a dress on a podium. She is next to Bernice Lindsay, who is wearing a coat and a hat. Behind them is Reverend Lovell Johnson, who is wea... |
Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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Description: | Vel Phillips is at a podium speaking to a crowd of people, some of whom are standing behind a street barricade. She is wearing a dress. In the bottom right... |
Date: | 01 03 1978 |
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Description: | Liesl Blockstein of the Wisconsin Women's Political Caucus presenting guest-of honor, Vel Phillips, with an honorary poem at a reception at the L'Etoile Re... |
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Desk used by Milwaukee Alder Vel Phillips, made by the Northwestern Furniture Company for Milwaukee City Hall, 1895. (Museum object #2007.16.1) |
Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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Description: | Vel Phillips and Bernice Lindsay helping lift the Lindsay Street sign to be installed. Phillips is wearing a dress and is in front of Lindsay, who is weari... |
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Description: | Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus (left) and the elected officers of his term: Lt. Governor Russell Olson, Secretary of State Vel Phillips, Treasurer Charles Sm... |
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Description: | A group of bicycle riders on the street, with a smiling Vel Phillips in the lead. She is wearing a sweater, scarf, gloves, slacks and lace up shoes. Other ... |
Date: | 06 1972 |
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Description: | Vel Phillips, standing on right, is in a brown and blue patterned buba (a Yoruba blouse) and holding a bouquet of flowers. Next to her (second from right) ... |
Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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Description: | Reverend Lovell Johnson of St. Marks African Methodist Episcopal Church is on a podium in a coat and hat. On her right are Vel Phillips and Bernice Lindsay... |
Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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Description: | Vel Phillips is wearing a colorful dress. On the right is Bernice Lindsay, who is wearing a coat and a hat. Both are looking at a worker who is installing ... |
Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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Description: | Vel Phillips is behind the podium in a dress. She is reaching out her hand for Bernice Lindsay, who is wearing a coat and a hat. An unidentified person is ... |
Date: | 1967 |
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Description: | Waist-up portrait of Hank Aaron in his Atlanta Braves uniform. The print is autographed at the top. |
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Description: | Father James Groppi speaking through a megaphone from the hood of a bus. Groppi stands with Alderperson Vel Phillips. Several of the people in the assemble... |
Wisconsin History Maker Award |
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Read about the woman from Milwaukee's South Side who became Wisconsin's first African American secretary of state. |
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Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Hank Aaron outdoors. Behind him are a man, and two children. The boy on the right is wearing a yellow and blue Milwaukee Bre... |
Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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Description: | Alderman Martin E. Schreiber, President of the Milwaukee Common Council, is on a podium wearing a suit. On the left is Vel Phillips who is wearing a dress.... |
Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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Description: | Reverend Lovell Johnson is on the left wearing a coat. On the right is Bernice Lindsay who is wearing a hat and carrying a handbag and cane. In the middle ... |
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