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Series: 1. Oral History Interviews, 1995-1996
: Series contains oral history interviews, consisting of audio cassettes and transcripts,
conducted between 1995-1996 by Jack Dougherty. Interviewees provide insight into
Milwaukee school reform activism through their discussions about Coalition of Parents
for Quality Education, Committee of One Hundred, CORE (Congress of Racial Equality),
Federation of Independent Community Schools, Freedom Schools, MUSIC (Milwaukee United
School Integration), Milwaukee Urban League, NAACP (National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People), North Division High School, Parents Action Committee for
Education (PACE), Sherman Park Community Association, Triple O-Blacks For Two-Way
Integration, Urban Day School, and Washington High School. Also included in this series
are Dougherty's post-interview notes.
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Adams, Juanita, and Arlene Johnson, 1995 June
15
Listen to this interview, view the index, and search the transcript. : Juanita Adams and Arlene Johnson were two founders of the Congress of Racial
Equality's (CORE) Milwaukee chapter. Topics include their choice to become involved
with school integration, differences between CORE and Milwaukee United School
Integration Committee (MUSIC), personal experiences with racism including threats of
violence, the school boycott of 1964, fellow members of CORE, and gender roles in
CORE. : The original audio cassettes are restricted; users must use digital files available
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Alexander, Ray, 1995 July 19
: Ray Alexander was Executive Director of the Afro Urban Institute beginning in 1970.
He also served as Community Relations Director for the North Town Development and
Planning Council. His interview topics include fellow community activists of the late
1960's, the United Community Action Group, and inner city youth employment
programming.
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Banks, Phyllis, and Teresa Green, 1995 June
28
: Phyllis Banks began teaching at Riverside High School in 1962. Theresa Pauline Green,
her sister, was a Professor at UC-Berkeley and became involved with Milwaukee from
afar. They discuss the teaching of black history at Riverside High School, the school
boycott of 1964, racism that Banks faced from Riverside High School's administration,
the feeling of unity during the movement, and problems with initial school integration
efforts.
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Barbee, Lloyd, 1995 July 12
: Attorney Lloyd Barbee represented the 18th Assembly District (formerly the 6th
District, Milwaukee) in the Wisconsin State Assembly and held numerous offices
including in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
and in the Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC). His interview topics
include Congress of Racial Equality, the Harold Story Committee in 1963, the NAACP,
and his role in education reform in Milwaukee.
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Beason, Jake, 1995 July 11
: Jake Beason, a retired high school teacher, taught at both North Division and Custer
High Schools. His interview topics include the early efforts at teaching black history
in Milwaukee, the 1967 textbook turn-in, previous unwillingness of Milwaukee Public
Schools (MPS) to hire black teachers and the groups which affected change in this
area. He also discusses MPS' recruitment efforts at historically black southern
colleges, the problems of teaching with inadequate textbooks, and success of black
students in integrated schools.
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Beckley, Maurice, 1995 June 28
: Maurice Beckley was managing editor of the Milwaukee
Star newspaper and worked as an industrial engineer at Johnson Controls. In
his interview Beckley critiques the Milwaukee United School Integration Committee
(MUSIC). Beckley discusses in contrast the Alliance for Better Education and the
importance of education in the advancement of African Americans during the 1960's.
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Bell, Martha, 1995 June 22
: Martha Bell worked as a teacher's aide at Wells Junior High School. Her interview
topics include her involvement with the Parents Action Committee for Education and the
school boycotts of 1964 and 1965. She also discusses the MacDowell school construction
protest, the disturbance at Wells over the need to hire black cooks, the Milwaukee
Public School system's reluctance to hire teachers from black colleges, problems with
busing, and the prevalence of women in the school integration movement.
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Brown, Cecil, Jr., and Loretta Brown, 1995 August
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Listen to this interview, view the index, and search the transcript. : Cecil Brown Jr. founded Milwaukee's chapter of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in
1963 and also served as chairman of the chapter. He also served as Vice-Chairman of
Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC). Cecil and Loretta Brown discuss
de facto segregation, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's
local fight for the hiring of African American teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools,
CORE, and the relationship between CORE and MUSIC.
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Caesar, Elsie, M., 1995 August 7
: Elsie Caesar was involved with the Coalition to Save North Division in 1979. She
discusses the motivations of the group, other's perceptions that they were
anti-integration, their eventual success, her politically active daughter, the belief
of some that integration wasn't as important as having good teachers, and the busing
of her grandchildren in 1979 and 1980.
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Champion, Rev. Leo, Inonia, and Eugene, 1995 June
7
: Inonia and Rev. Leo Champion came to Milwaukee in 1959. Inonia was a teacher at the
Jerusalem Freedom School, and they both were involved with Congress of Racial Equality
(CORE) and in the Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) campaign
against intact busing. Their interview topics include the effects of intact busing on
African American children, the organization and planning of the Milwaukee school
boycotts, and the relationships between CORE, MUSIC, and the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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Chaney, Felmers, 1996 July 23
: Felmers Chaney is a former Milwaukee Police officer who worked with Milwaukee Urban
League and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in
Milwaukee. He reflects on being a policeman during the open housing marches and a
member of the Central City Development Corporation during the North Division High
School controversy. He also discusses his work on the Milwaukee Public Schools
desegregation lawsuit settlement, and explains his opposition to many of the
integration reformers of the 1960's.
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Cheeks, Thomas M., 1995 June 22
: Thomas M. Cheeks was assigned to teach at Lincoln High School in 1951, making him the
first African American to teach secondary public school in Milwaukee. He transferred
to school administration in 1964. His interview topics include We-Milwaukee, The
Academy Report of 1967, busing of African American children, and The Committee of 34,
an organization created in the 1960's to address conditions in Milwaukee.
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Davis, Reginald, 1995 July 4
: Reginald Davis, a Milwaukee native, attended Riverside, Washington and West Division
High Schools. He discusses starting the group BOY (Black Organized Youth) in 1967 as a
result of dissatisfaction with the Milwaukee Public Schools, Cynthia Pitts and Lloyd
Barbee as mentors of BOY, an incident of teacher brutality at Riverside in 1968, and
"walkout" protests with which he was involved.
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El-Amin, Saleem (formley Jeff Crawford), Mustafa, and Haneefah Hasan, and
Muhammad Aleem, 1995 July 12
: Saleem El-Amin came to Milwaukee when he was 6 years old and attended North Division
High School. He later became principle of Clara Muhammad School, an independent Muslim
school founded in 1972. This is a group interview, but is mostly conducted with Saleem
El-Amin. The interview topics include Clara Muhammad School as an alternative to Lloyd
Barbee's call for integration, and the education reform movement as it applied to
Milwaukee's African American Muslim community.
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Finlayson, Edith, 1995 May 31
: Edith Finlayson is a Milwaukee nurse who became involved with the school issue reform
because of her children. She discusses the founding of the EB Phillips Daycare Center,
her relationship with Lloyd Barbee, her involvement in Milwaukee United School
Integration Committee, her children's experience in school, problems finding housing
near the better schools, and an incident of racism at University School.
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Flowers, Allen, 1995 July 12
: Allen Flowers moved to Milwaukee to become part of the economic development movement
and was director of the North Side Community Design Center. He argued for building
North Division High School just west of its current site because the current site
disrupted an area of high black home ownership. He also discusses the Northtown
Development Committee, Milwaukee's political structure and its effect on the housing
movement and urban development.
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Fuller, Howard, 1995 December 28
: Howard Fuller, a native of Milwaukee, was one of the founding members of the
Coalition to Save North Division. His topics include his experiences with school
integration issues in Cleveland and being the first black student at Carroll College,
the importance of integration for better education, the importance of coalitions for
reaching the community, the founding of and opposition to the Coalition to Save North
Division, and Lloyd Barbee.
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Goens, Geraldine, and Jay Gilmer, 1996 July
12
: Geraldine Gilmer Goens, a teacher in the Milwaukee Public School system since 1951,
comprises the bulk of this interview. Her interview topics include African American
teachers having to teach far from their neighborhood schools, and classroom conditions
for African American children and teachers. She also discusses teacher education for
African Americans at Wisconsin State Teachers College and their policy of forcing
African Americans to sign an agreement not to teach secondary school in Milwaukee
Public Schools upon graduation.
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Gordon, Grant, and Lucinda Gordon, 1995 June
9
Listen to this interview, view the index, and search the transcript. : Grant Gordon became the first black principal in Milwaukee in 1960 at Garfield High
School; Lucinda Gordon was active with the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP) in Milwaukee. They share their impressions of the Milwaukee
United School Integration Committee's school boycotts in 1964 and 1965, the problems
of busing in 1979 and 1980, the Project Rise program for academically struggling
schools, and the Lady Pitts program for providing education for pregnant teens.
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Gregg, Rev. B. S., 1995 May 30
Listen to this interview, view the index, and search the transcript. : Reverend B.S. Gregg was pastor of St. Matthew CME church for several years, and
served as treasurer of Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) in 1964.
Interview topics include his relationship with Mayor Maier, the Freedom Schools and
St. Matthew's role in the school boycott in 1964, and his work with Lloyd Barbee on
education reform.
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Hannah, F. Marvin, 1996 July 19
: F. Marvin Hannah came to Milwaukee in 1955 after leaving the Navy. He discusses his
work to enter African American students into apprenticeship programs, the North
Division Subsystem, sending his children to Harambee Community School, his time as
president of the Milwaukee Alliance of Black School Educators, problems with the
initial school desegregation plan for Milwaukee after the 1976 court ruling, and his
feelings on magnet schools.
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Harper, Rev. Fred, 1995 July 17
: Reverend Fred Harper was pastor during the 1960's at King Solomon Church. His
interview topics include his experience as a parent transferring his daughter from a
predominately black school to a predominately white school, the role of King Solomon
Church in the Freedom Schools, the school desegregation lawsuit of 1965, and African
American immersion schools as a response to the fight for school integration.
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Harpole, Mildred, 1995 July 17
Listen to this interview, view the index, and search the transcript. : Mildred Harpole worked as a Reading Specialist at Wells Junior High School and
Lincoln High School. She discusses teaching at Freedom Schools during 1964 and 1965,
problems with Milwaukee Public Schools' busing program, her experience growing up in
segregated schools in Baltimore and Cleveland, and running for the Milwaukee School
Board in 1971.
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Harpole, Reuben, Jr., 1995 June 6
Listen to this interview, view the index, and search the transcript. : Reuben Harpole Jr, helped develop many Milwaukee institutions such as the Black
Holocaust Museum, UWM's Center for Urban Community Development and the Harambee
Community Development Corporation. His interview topics include a personal account of
white flight in the Harambee neighborhood, boycotts of Boston Store and Gimbles,
Milwaukee Star's role in disseminating information to
the African American community, Concerned Citizens for Quality Education, and key
community leaders in the fight for equality in education.
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Harris, Robert, 1995 July 11
: Robert Harris is a Milwaukee native who began working for Milwaukee Public Schools in
1954. He discusses his time as a football coach at North Division High School starting
in 1964, the inequities that existed between North Division and other high schools in
the area, the Milwaukee United School Integration Committee in 1964 and 1965, and his
views on what providing a quality education entails.
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Harris, Vada, 1995 August 26
: Vada Harris discusses her activities as Secretary of Wisconsin's National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Youth Council and as a member of the
Youth Council Commandos, teaching black history in the Freedom Schools, and marching
for open housing. She also attended Riverside High School where she led a "textbook
turn-in" in 1967 to protest the lack of black history curriculum and instruction.
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Holt, Mikel, 1996 July 16
: Mikel Holt, a Milwaukee native, is associated with the Milwaukee Community Journal from 1967 to the present as a reporter, editor
and associate publisher. Holt discusses the stance of the African American community
in regards to school integration, the Community
Journal's criticism of desegregation in 1976-1977, black politicians who
were involved in the school movement, and school choice issues taking place in
Milwaukee during the 1980's.
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Hopkins, Fred, 1996 July 2
: Fred Hopkins was born and raised in Milwaukee and attended North Division High School
and Clifford McKissick Community School. He was a member of North Division's School
Community Site Committee and the first vice-president of Blac-A-Vention, a group of
inner-city activists who lobbied for black representation on the Milwaukee Public
School board. His interview topics include his experience of intact busing as a
student, participating in a school boycott, attending Clifford McKissick Community
School, and the state of the Milwaukee Public Schools in the 1960's and early
1970's.
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Jackson, Carolyn, 1996 July 9
: Carolyn Jackson moved to the Sherman Park neighborhood of Milwaukee in 1975. In 1976
she joined the Sherman Park Community Association Education Committee. She discusses
the education committee's focus, working with the Coalition for Peaceful Schools, the
push for Metro Milwaukee desegregation in 1975, and being part of the Committee of 100
in 1978.
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Jackson, Gwen, 1995 May 31
Listen to this interview, view the index, and search the transcript. : Gwen Jackson, a community activist with a Milwaukee elementary school named in her
honor, served in the 1960's as Chair of the Milwaukee Urban League Family Life
Committee. Her interview topics include the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People and the Milwaukee Urban League's role in Milwaukee education reform,
a critique of Father Groppi's leadership of Milwaukee youth, and Lloyd Barbee's role
as a lawyer in the struggle for equality in Milwaukee.
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Jackson, Harold B., Jr.. 1996 July 11
: Harold B. Jackson Jr. was elected to the Milwaukee School Board in 1970 after serving
as an Assistant District Attorney in Milwaukee. He discusses growing up under
segregation in Washington D.C., the decision to end the intact busing program in
Milwaukee, the decision to reinstate teacher Jake Beason in 1971, the desegregation
lawsuit against the school board and the 1976 decision in that suit.
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Jeter, Maxine, 1995 July 5
: Maxine Jeter, a member of Milwaukee United School Integration Committee in the
1960's, helped organize protests at St. Boniface Church. Her interview topics include
Father Groppi at St. Boniface Church and in the local civil rights movement. She also
discusses Lloyd Barbee's lawsuit against the Milwaukee School Board, the Catholic
Family Movement at St. Boniface, and provides a detailed explanation of intact
busing.
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Johnson, Ronald, 1995 July 13
: Ronald Johnson, a Milwaukee native, graduated from Custer High School in 1969 and
taught Black History at Harambee Community School beginning in 1971. He discusses his
time as a member of the Milwaukee Black Panthers, teaching at Harambee, and his
opinions on the pressure placed on Milwaukee Public Schools to teach black
history.
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Jones, Nellie, 1995 June 6
: Nellie Jones was secretary of Parents Action Committee for Education (PACE) and a
member of the 20th Street School's Parent Teacher Association. Her interview topics
include the creation and ending of PACE as well as Lloyd Barbee's assistance with it.
She also discusses sending her children to Lancaster Elementary School while it was
predominantly white as an alternative to intact busing.
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Jones, Walter, 1995 June 19
: Walter Jones moved to Milwaukee in 1959 when he began working for the Milwaukee Star. In 1967 he began working for the Milwaukee Courier. He discusses why the Star got involved with education issues, his views on the
Milwaukee United School Integration Committee boycotts of 1964 and 1965, the Black
Power movement in Milwaukee starting in 1966 and 1967, and student involvement in the
school movement.
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Kenner, Peggy, 1996 July 18
: Peggy Kenner, former president of the Milwaukee Public School (MPS) Board and winner
of the Wisconsin Women's Network Stateswomen of the Year, speaks to her work with the
Peckham-Steuben Community Council to develop an integration plan, MPS' discriminatory
transfer policy in the 1960's and early 1970's, the "Committee of 100", and her work
with the MPS school board.
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Lucas, Reaber, 1996 July 13
: Reaber Lucas moved to Milwaukee in 1965 from Mississippi when she started working
with the Organizations of Organizations (Triple O). She discusses her work with Triple
O including working on Title 1, organizing the teacher's aides, their involvement with
the North Division and Rufus King clusters and the racial make-up of the organization.
She also gives her opinion on the school desegregation lawsuit, and growing up in
segregated schools.
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McAlister, Mona, 1995 July 19
: Mona McAlister graduated from St. Benedict High School and sent her five children to
St. Boniface School. She witnessed St. Boniface's transition from predominately white
to predominately black. Her interview topics include St. Boniface's transition from a
parochial school to a community school, the Federation of Independent Community
Schools and the effect of white flight on the Milwaukee parochial schools.
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McKay, Pauline, 1996 July 11
: Pauline McKay moved to Milwaukee in 1950 from Lexington, MS. She discusses her work
with North Division High School groups, her involvement with the site planning
committee for the new North Division building, the Chapter 220 program, problems with
busing, the desegregation plan of 1976, and growing up in segregated schools.
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McNeil, Rev. Joseph, 1995 August 7
: Reverend Joseph McNeil, a Milwaukee native, was active in education reform for
African American children, and served as the chairman of the North Division Advisory
Council in the 1970's. His interview topics include Title III and cluster schools,
parent involvement with changes at North Division High School in the late 1960's early
1970's, Milwaukee's attempt to decentralize the school system, segregation at Tech
High School, and dealing with Police Chief Harold Breier.
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Murrell, Peter, Sr., and Eva Ruth, 1995 June
2
Listen to this interview, view the index, and search the transcript. : Eva and Peter Murrell came to Milwaukee in the 1940's and became active in school
issues through their children. They discuss We-Milwaukee, Eva's work with the Parent
Teacher Association from 1962-1966, problems with the Milwaukee schools their children
attended, busing, the desegregation decisions of 1976 and 1979, and African American
immersion schools.
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Nicholas, Clarence P., 1996 July 2
: Clarence P. Nicholas came to Milwaukee in 1970 to teach in the Milwaukee Public
School system where he taught for 36 years and was the spokesman for the Black
Teacher's Caucus (BTC) in 1977. Interview topics include the activities and members of
the BTC, friction between BTC and the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association
(MTEA), and BTC's interaction with key activists such as Lloyd Barbee.
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Pitts, Cynthia Bryant, 1995 June 16
: Cynthia Pitts came to Milwaukee in 1965 and worked with the Inner City Development
Project. She discusses growing up in segregated Baltimore, her role with the Inner
City Development Project, school issues, student protests, and the goals of the United
Community Action Committee.
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Robertson, Helen, 1996 July 24
: Helen Robertson came to Milwaukee in 1970 to teach after attending UW-Madison. Her
interview topics include the quality of education in Milwaukee's independent community
school movement in the 1970's, Milwaukee magnet and Montessori schools, the Coalition
to Save North Division High School and the Governor's Commission on Better Quality of
Schools.
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Robinson, Jeanetta, 1995 May 31
: Jeanetta Robinson came to Milwaukee in 1957 and participated in many civil rights
groups in Milwaukee. She discusses her work with Congress of Racial Equality, the
Freedom School boycott of 1964, the Poverty Advisory Council, organizing student
walkouts, her children's school experience, the difference between integrated and
quality education, and her work with the Triple O-sponsored Two-Way or No-Way busing
protest of 1979-1980.
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Rogers, Tazaleen, and Theodora Cecelia Rogers, 1995 July
25
: Tazzaleen Rogers, interviewed with her daughter Theodora Cecelia Rogers, discusses
working with Milwaukee United School Integration Committee and the Coalition to Save
North Division High School. She was also president of 12th Street School PTA. Her
interview topics include her children's experience as the first group of African
Americans to attend Shorewood and South Division High Schools and her involvement, in
general, with the Milwaukee civil rights movement.
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Saunders, Lawrence, and Kathleen Saunders, 1995 July
6
: Larry Saunders came to Milwaukee to attend Marquette University where he met
Kathleen. They discuss working for the Milwaukee Globe
and the Milwaukee Star, the hatred in Milwaukee for
African Americans, and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom which Larry
participated in.
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Savage, Rochelle, and Roosevelt, 1995 June
27
: Rochelle Savage and her husband, Roosevelt, were involved with Milwaukee United
School Integration Committee in 1965. Their interview topics include intact busing at
Garden Homes School, communicating and information in the education reform movement,
Father Groppi and the Commandos, and Lloyd Barbee and the school desegregation
lawsuit. They also discuss the concept of improving neighborhood schools instead of
integration, and the removal of strong African American teachers from the inner-city
schools.
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Scott, Wesley L., 1995 July 25
Listen to this interview, view the index, and search the transcript. : Wesley L. Scott was the CEO of the Milwaukee Urban League and an active member of
We-Milwaukee. He discusses Milwaukee civil rights in the 1950's, his activities with
the Urban League, criticism of newspaper coverage of the school movement, the goals of
We-Milwaukee, efforts to support black history, and the role of civil rights groups in
the 1970's desegregation fight.
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Seefeldt, Flora B., 1995 June 16
: Flora Seefeldt came to Milwaukee in 1958 and was appointed by President Johnson to
serve as a member of the educational board for Counselor Finch, then United States
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Her interview topics include the United
Community Action Group, her children's experience with intact busing from McKinley
School to Garden Homes School, and the poor quality of Milwaukee schools in the black
community including lack of books and supplies.
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Smith, Michael C., 1996 July 12
: Michael Smith came to Milwaukee in 1972 to teach at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He discusses his involvement with Organization of Organizations
(Triple O) in 1974-1975, his children's school experience in 1976, problems with the
Milwaukee Public School System's Chapter 220 program, goals of the Concerned Citizens
for Quality Education, his work with the Governor's Commission on Quality Education,
and the fight over the North Division District in the early 1990's.
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Spencer, Anita K., 1996 July 10
: Anita Spencer, a Milwaukee native, attended Ninth Street School, McKinley Elementary,
West Division and Lincoln High Schools. Her interview topics include her membership
with local organizations such as the United Black Community Council, Project Respect
and Two-Way or No-Way. Spencer also talks about overcrowding in Auer Elementary school
and how intact busing affected her family.
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\Spencer, Anita\
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Swan, Monroe, 1996 July 17
: Monroe Swan came to Milwaukee in 1955 and was elected state senator in 1972. He
discusses his involvement with Organization of Organizations (Triple O), which he
joined in 1967, his integration stance as senator, his role in Blac-A-Vention, a 1974
meeting of inner-city activists, problems with the Chapter 220 program, the 1976
desegregation decision, goals of the Two-Way or No-Way busing protest, and the reform
movements of 1989.
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\Swan, Monroe\
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Todd, Leon, 1996 July 15
: Leon Todd was elected to the Milwaukee Public School (MPS) Board in 1975. His
interview topics include his strategy for becoming one of the first blacks elected to
the MPS Board and his alliance with the German-American societies in Milwaukee which
resulted in the development of Milwaukee's integrated language immersion schools. He
also talks about the Chapter 220 voluntary integration program, magnet schools, and
the Coalition to Save North Division High School.
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\Todd, Leon\
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Verdin, Brian, 1995 July 27
: Brian Verdin is a Milwaukee native and graduate of North Division High School. He
discusses his run for the school board in 1972, his activities with Organization of
Organizations (Triple O) which he joined in 1975, the goals of Blacks for Two-Way
Integration, problems with Superintendant McMurrin's desegregation plan, and the
activities of the Coalitions for Peaceful Schools and to Save North Division.
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\Verdin, Brian\
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Waiss, Beatrice J., 1995 June 28
: Beatrice Weiss came to Milwaukee in 1967 and was a co-founder of the McKissick
Community School. Her interview topics include the creation of the McKissick Community
School, her children's experiences in Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), and a comparison
of MPS and Milwaukee Choice Schools. Waiss also gives an analysis of the rise and
decline of Milwaukee's education reform movement.
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\Waiss, Beatrice\
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Walker, Rev. Lucius, 1996 May 14
: Reverend Lucius Walker came to Milwaukee in the late 1950's. He was the first youth
director for the Milwaukee Christian Center on Milwaukee's south side and was the
founding director of Northcott Neighborhood House. His interview topics include the
use of integration as a means for African Americans to access Milwaukee's educational
resources. He also talks about Northcott Neighborhood House and the role it played in
community development, including its role in the Organization of Organizations (Triple
O).
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\Walker, Lucius\
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Ward, Adolphus, 1995 June 21
: Adolphus Ward is former faculty member in the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee's
Theatre Department. Ward organized a parent conference in 1970 with the North Division
Cluster to increase African American parent involvement in local schools. His
interview topics include racial changes in the neighborhood of Center and 22nd
streets, the difference in curriculum in predominately African American schools in
1960's, and his decision to send his children to Freedom Schools in 1964. He also
talks about Organization of Organizations (Triple O) and its influence on community
organization in Milwaukee in the 1960's.
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\Ward, Adolphus\
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Watkins, Ivory, and Linda Watkins Jefferson, 1996 June
12
: Linda (Watkins) Jefferson was the original plaintiff in the Barbee School
desegregation case. Ivory Watkins is her mother. Linda is the major interviewee and
discusses how she became involved in the legal case, the 1964 school boycott,
testifying in court, civil rights activities while at Rufus King High School, her
children's school experience, and Ivory's civil rights activities.
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\Watkins, Ivory & Jefferson,
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Williams, Annette (Polly), 1996 July 23
: Annette (Polly) Williams graduated from North Division High School and attended both
Milwaukee Area Technical College and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She was
elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1981 and served until 2011. Her interview
topics include her participation as a parent on the board of the Urban Day School
which offered Montessori education to African American children, racism her children
experienced as students at Riverside High School, her work with the coalition to Save
North Division High School, and the political climate in Milwaukee's African American
community in the early 1970's.
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\Williams, Annette\
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Williams, Evelyn Lockhart, and Ralph Williams Jr., 1995 July
26
: Evelyn and Ralph Williams, both Milwaukee natives, discuss the 1964 Freedom School
boycott, the Coalition to Save North Division, Howard Fuller, problems with the school
board during the 1970's, the relationship between the Milwaukee Urban League and the
Coalition, and involvement with the New North Division District in 1988.
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\Williams, Evelyn & Ralph\
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Wray, Jessie E., 1995 June 15
: Jessie Wray served as treasurer for Organization of Organizations (Triple O). Triple
O used non-violent protest to promote social change in the late 1960's. Wray's
interview topics include The Federation of Independent Schools, Parents for
Educational Progress, marching with Dick Gregory, and working with Milwaukee United
School Integration Committee in the mid-1960's.
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\Wray, Jessie\
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\Wray, Jessie\
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Wynn, Lauri, 1995 June 9
Listen to this interview, view the index, and search the transcript. : Lauri Wynn was a teacher in the Milwaukee Public School district starting in the
1960's. She discussed her work with the Board of Governmental Operations, the planning
and implementation of the Interrelated Language Skills Center, her work with the
United Community Action Group, and her children's experience in schools during the
1960's and 1970's.
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\Wynn, Lauri\
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\Wynn, Lauri\
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Young, Ruby, 1996 July 17
: Ruby Young discusses substitute teaching in the Milwaukee Public School (MPS) system
in the 1940's and 1950's, her journey in MPS to becoming a full time teacher as a
married woman, and being an MPS elementary school teacher during the 1960's.
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\Wynn, Lauri\
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