| Description |
1 online resource (214 pages) |
| Contents |
short title; title page; copyright page; dedication; table of contents; foreword; introduction; chapter 1 Detroit Came First; chapter 2 Milwaukee Joins the List; chapter 3 No Simple Answers; chapter 4 Gemtlichkeit & Stereotypes; chapter 5 Core Comes out of the Core; chapter 6 Music for Milwaukee; chapter 7 The "White Nigger"; chapter 8 Eagles and Open Housing; chapter 9 City with a Chance; afterword; photo section |
| Summary |
With unrest around the country and riots in Newark and Detroit, it became known as the long, hot summer of 1967. Milwaukee experienced a riot, too, and then became the biggest civil rights story in the nation as a white Catholic priest, along with a bunch of kids from the inner city, conducted marathon marches and demonstrations for an open housing law. It was a defining period, though not the end, of years of civil rights protests in Beertown, USA, against de facto school segregation, discrimination by a private club whose roster included members of the white power structure, and public offic |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Groppi, James, 1930-1985.
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| SUBJECT |
Groppi, James, 1930-1985 fast |
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African Americans -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- History -- 20th century
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African Americans -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Housing -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- History
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Riots -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- History
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African Americans
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African Americans -- Social conditions
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Housing
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Riots
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Milwaukee (Wis.) -- History -- 20th century
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Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780874623642 |
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0874623642 |
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