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Voices of Milwaukee Bronzeville
Some people don't have to imagine what Milwaukee's Bronzeville was like. They have only to remember. They recall Walnut Street alive with businesses serving a hardworking Black population making something out of the meager resources available...Regular price $21.99Quick view -
Valiant Vel: Vel Phillips and the Fight for Fairness and Equality
An illustrated biography of groundbreaking civil rights activist Vel Phillips for young readers Fair housing advocate, civil rights champion, and civic leader Vel Phillips spent her life breaking barriers and fighting for justice for all people. As...Regular price $20.00Quick view -
Milwaukee's Bronzeville
With the migration of African American sharecroppers to northern cities in the first half of the 20th century, the African American population of Milwaukee grew from fewer than 1,000 in 1900 to nearly 22,000 by 1950....Regular price $24.99Quick view -
Civil Rights Activism in Milwaukee
In the early 1960s, as members of Milwaukee's growing African American population looked beyond their segregated community for better jobs and housing, they faced bitter opposition from the real estate industry and union leadership. In an...Regular price $21.99Quick view -
Black Milwaukee: the Making of an Industrial Proletariat 1915-45
Other historians have tended to treat black urban life mainly in relation to the ghetto experience, but in Black Milwaukee, Joe William Trotter Jr. offers a new perspective that complements yet also goes well beyond that approach. The...Regular price $33.00Quick view -
Sherman Park: A Legacy of Diversity in Milwaukee
Sherman Park residents blazed integration trails ahead of the slow progress of Greater Milwaukee and the country. Racial tensions and violence in the South drove nearly thirty thousand African Americans north to Milwaukee in the 1960s....Regular price $19.99Quick view
Celebrate Milwaukee's black history year round with this collection.
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