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Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) protests over busing and de facto segregation on June 3rd and 4th 1965
WTMJ-TVView Full Item in University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeClips featuring silent footage of members of Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) protesting busing and de facto segregation on June 3-4 1965. The location is most likely Keefe Avenue…
Bring light, teach one
View Full Item in University of Wisconsin Digital CollectionsBlack and white poster using a photograph with caption.
MFDP Lauderdale County--WATS (Telephone) Reports, March-April 1965 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.) records, 1964-1966…
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale CountyView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder contains WATS line summaries, presumably from the Atlanta SNCC office, and cover all states in which volunteers were working during March to April of 1965. March reports primarily detail t…
Suffragette coppette, Suffragette Series no.5 postcard
View Full Item in University of Wisconsin Digital CollectionsCard from Suffragette Series. The postcard reads, "Suffragette coppette. Beware of the dog." Copyrighted 1909 by Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Co.
Freedom Information Service--Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1964-1966 (Freedom Information Service records, 1962-1979; Archives Main Stack…
Freedom Information ServiceView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder contains two SNCC documents: the first, a listing of all the incidents in Mississippi during Freedom Summer (with great graphics) and the second, a 1966 press release about evictions in Cl…
De suffragette upon her box, suffrage postcard
View Full Item in University of Wisconsin Digital CollectionsCard, No. 2269, 15 des. Comic Dutch. Card reads, "De suffragette upon her box darns der men, but not der sox."
Negro slavery in Wisconsin
Davidson, J. N. (John Nelson)View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyIn this paper, Rev. Davidson traces the earliest evidence of slavery in Wisconsin, going back to French importation of slaves in the Mississippi Valley in the early 18th century and coming forward to…
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
View Full Item in University of Wisconsin Digital CollectionsBrown net-grain cloth with gold stamping on front and blind stamping on sides. Red endpapers.
Montgomery--Indianola, Mississippi (Lucile Montgomery papers, 1963-1967; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 44, Reel 1, Segment 20)
Montgomery, LucileView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThe first and final documents in this folder consist of correspondence between Lucile Montgomery and Otis Brown, Jr., an MFDP worker in Indianola, Mississippi, who is generally reporting on the progre…
Smith--COFO legal documents, 1964-1965 (Benjamin E. Smith papers, 1955-1967; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 513, Box 1, Folder 16)
Smith, Benjamin EugeneView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyAmong other things, this folder contains an assortment of materials relating to the recently passed Mississippi state law--followed by similar municipal laws--which limited freedom of assembly.There's…
The Reconstruction Era: A Time of Great Experiments But One Not Carried Out in Good Faith to Black Americans.
Cameron, James 1914-2006View Full Item in Milwaukee Public LibraryAllen--Freedom School mimeo materials 1963-64 (Pamela P. Allen papers, 1967-1974; Archives Main Stacks, M85-013, Folder 1)
Allen, Pamela, P., 1943View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyAssorted documents relating to Freedom Summer: “Freedom School Data” (COFO); “The General Condition of the Mississippi Negro” (SNCC); “Declaration of Independence” by Freedom School students; “If You…
Morey --COFO Legal Coordinator - Other Material (R. Hunter Morey papers, 1962-1967; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 522, Box 4, Folder 7)
Morey, R. Hunter, 1940View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder contains several reports and affidavits testifying to the intimidation, beating, and harassment of blacks registering to vote or campaigning for black candidates. It also includes a list o…
Sexism in the locker room event poster
View Full Item in University of Wisconsin Digital Collections"Sexism in the locker room. The Association of Faculty Women presents: A discussion of the status and future of Women's Athletics at the U." Wisconsin Center, room 210, March 11th, 7:30 pm. Kim Saunde…
13 - March to protest recent police action in Selma, Alabama, March 13, 1965
Larkey, Jay; Larkey, Hinda, Congress of Racial Equality; Milwaukee Conference on Religion and RaceView Full Item in University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeMilwaukee civil rights demonstrators marched to protest police actions in Selma, Alabama that took place on March 7, 1965. The protest in Milwaukee was organized on March 13, 1965. About 2, 500 people…
Poor People's Corporation--Correspondence, COFO, 1964, Jan. 30-1964, Oct. 14 (Poor People's Corporation records, 1960-1967, Archives Main Stacks, Mss…
Poor People's CorporationView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder contains correspondence among civil rights workers about ways of addressing poverty among blacks in Mississippi, pointing out the lack of school lunches in many schools, seeking federal pr…
WTMJ special report (partial) on school boycotts and de facto segregation in Milwaukee, October 18, 1965
WTMJ-TVView Full Item in University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeClips of news material prepared for the WTMJ special report program examining school boycotts and the issue of de facto segregation in Milwaukee. The first clip gives an introduction to de facto segre…
MFDP Lauderdale County--WATS (Telephone) Reports, June 1965 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.) records, 1964-1966; Histo…
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale CountyView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder contains WATS line summaries, presumably from the Atlanta SNCC office, and cover all states in which volunteers were working during June of 1965. Reports mention plans for an NAACP summer…