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Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Bell, Sr. V. City of Milwaukee
Author: The Selma of the North
Author: Patrick D. JonesPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674274490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Between 1958 and 1970, a distinctive movement for racial justice emerged from unique circumstances in Milwaukee. A series of local leaders inspired growing numbers of people to participate in campaigns against employment and housing discrimination, segregated public schools, the membership of public officials in discriminatory organizations, welfare cuts, and police brutality. The Milwaukee movement culminated in the dramatic—and sometimes violent—1967 open housing campaign. A white Catholic priest, James Groppi, led the NAACP Youth Council and Commandos in a militant struggle that lasted for 200 consecutive nights and provoked the ire of thousands of white residents. After working-class mobs attacked demonstrators, some called Milwaukee “the Selma of the North.” Others believed the housing campaign represented the last stand for a nonviolent, interracial, church-based movement. Patrick Jones tells a powerful and dramatic story that is important for its insights into civil rights history: the debate over nonviolence and armed self-defense, the meaning of Black Power, the relationship between local and national movements, and the dynamic between southern and northern activism. Jones offers a valuable contribution to movement history in the urban North that also adds a vital piece to the national story.
Neighborhood Rebels
Author: P. JosephPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230102301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This book examines the evolution of Black Power activism at the local level. Comprised of essays that examine Black Power's impact at the grassroots level in cities in the North, South, Mid-West and West, this anthology expands on the profusion of new scholarship that is taking a second look at Black Power.
Sister
Author: Sylvia Bell WhitePublisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299294331
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Raised with twelve brothers in a part of the segregated South that provided no school for African American children, Sylvia Bell White went North as a teenager, dreaming of a nursing career, but in Milwaukee she and her brothers found only racial discrimination, and she had to persevere through racial rebuffs to find work. When a Milwaukee police officer killed her younger brother in 1958, the Bell family suspected a racial murder but could do nothing to prove it?until twenty years later, when one of the officers involved in the incident unexpectedly came forward. Sylvia was the driving force behind the family's four-year quest for justice through a civil rights lawsuit.
Liberated Territory
Author: Yohuru WilliamsPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822389428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
With their collection In Search of the Black Panther Party, Yohuru Williams and Jama Lazerow provided a broad analysis of the Black Panther Party and its legacy. In Liberated Territory, they turn their attention to local manifestations of the organization, far away from the party’s Oakland headquarters. This collection’s contributors, all historians, examine how specific party chapters and offshoots emerged, developed, and waned, as well as how the local branches related to their communities and to the national party. The histories and character of the party branches vary as widely as their locations. The Cape Verdeans of New Bedford, Massachusetts, were initially viewed as a particular challenge for the local Panthers but later became the mainstay of the Boston-area party. In the early 1970s, the Winston-Salem, North Carolina, chapter excelled at implementing the national Black Panther Party’s strategic shift from revolutionary confrontation to mainstream electoral politics. In Detroit, the Panthers were defined by a complex relationship between their above-ground activities and an underground wing dedicated to armed struggle. While the Milwaukee chapter was born out of a rising tide of black militancy, it ultimately proved more committed to promoting literacy and health care and redressing hunger than to violence. The Alabama Black Liberation Front did not have the official imprimatur of the national party, but it drew heavily on the Panthers’ ideas and organizing strategies, and its activism demonstrates the broad resonance of many of the concerns articulated by the national party: the need for jobs, for decent food and housing, for black self-determination, and for sustained opposition to police brutality against black people. Liberated Territory reveals how the Black Panther Party’s ideologies, goals, and strategies were taken up and adapted throughout the United States. Contributors: Devin Fergus, Jama Lazerow, Ahmad A. Rahman, Robert W. Widell Jr., Yohuru Williams
Reports of the United States Board of Tax Appeals
Author: United States. Board of Tax AppealsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
American Railroad and Corporation Reports
Author: John LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporation law
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Workmen's Insurance and Compensation Series
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Category : Industrial life insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
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Public Documents of the State of Wisconsin
Author: WisconsinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 1914
Book Description
Opinions and Decisions of the Railroad Commission of the State of Wisconsin
Author: Railroad Commission of WisconsinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description