50 Years After The Marches

• 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.

• UW System Expects $212 million in Losses

  May 8th, 2020 by Rich Kremer

  The pandemic has brought a fiscal crisis to the university system.

• 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.

• “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.

• A Legacy of Activism

  Aug 1st, 2017 by Jenny Fischer

  Open housing marcher passes spirit of activism to daughter Ald. Chantia Lewis.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.