50 Years After The Marches
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Pandemic Shines Spotlight on Workers’ Struggle
Sep 7th, 2020 by Erik Gunn
Crisis makes Labor Day 2020 like no other, experts at roundtable discussion say.
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UW System Expects $212 million in Losses
May 8th, 2020 by Rich Kremer
The pandemic has brought a fiscal crisis to the university system.
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51 of 72 Counties Now Back Fair Maps
Apr 15th, 2020 by Matt Rothschild
9 more counties and 15 more municipalities passed anti-gerrymandering referendums.
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“200 Nights of Freedom” Recalls Marches
Sep 1st, 2017 by Andrea Waxman
200 consecutive nights of events will celebrate open housing marches of 50 years ago.
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A Legacy of Activism
Aug 1st, 2017 by Jenny Fischer
Open housing marcher passes spirit of activism to daughter Ald. Chantia Lewis.
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50 Years After the Marches
Common Council More Diverse Today, But…
Jul 28th, 2017 by Julie Grace
Other cities have done better at embracing diversity.
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50 Years After the Marches
Still Fighting for Equality
Jul 25th, 2017 by Jabril Faraj
A new generation of black leaders faces economic, educational inequities.
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50 Years After the Marches
I Was a Teenage Protester
Jul 14th, 2017 by Jennifer Walter
Claudette Harris was arrested at age 14 for protesting segregation at Eagle’s Club.
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50 Years After the Marches
“We Fought Just As Hard”
Jul 11th, 2017 by Naomi Waxman
The role of women in the Milwaukee’s open housing marches of the 1960s.
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50 Years After the Marches
The Education of Prentice McKinney
Jul 7th, 2017 by Margaret Cannon
How a teenaged-boy joined the march for open housing.
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50 Years After the Marches
White Landlords Wouldn’t Rent to Us
Jul 5th, 2017 by Brian Morrissey
Lyneria McGhee remembers why her family got involved in open housing marches.
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50 Years After the Marches
Residential Segregation Still A Problem
Jun 27th, 2017 by Edgar Mendez
Other than Brown Deer and Glendale, suburbs are overwhelmingly white.