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Clips 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…

Black and white poster using a photograph with caption.

This 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…

Card from Suffragette Series. The postcard reads, "Suffragette coppette. Beware of the dog." Copyrighted 1909 by Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Co.

This 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…

Card, No. 2269, 15 des. Comic Dutch. Card reads, "De suffragette upon her box darns der men, but not der sox."

In 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…

Brown net-grain cloth with gold stamping on front and blind stamping on sides. Red endpapers.

The 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…

Among 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…

Assorted 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…

This 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. 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…

Milwaukee 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…

This 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…

Clips 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…

This 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…

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