Asante Sana Thank You Father James E Groppi

Author : Shirley R. (Berry) Butler-Derge
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781426948749

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Asante Sana, ‘Thank You’ Father James E. Groppi by Shirley R. (Berry) Butler-Derge Pdf

Forty years ago, thousands of Milwaukee residents marched for equal rights to join and participate in local organizations, receive equal and appropriate educational resources for their children, and live where they wanted. Thus, the purpose of the book, Asante Sana, Thank You Father James E. Groppi is to commemorate and honor the Father James E. Groppi and the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council/Commandos who unselfishly put their lives on line and made a significant difference in making Milwaukees history one that changed the livelihood for all living beings. Specifically, in the book: Asante Sana, Thank You Father James E. Groppi, the author, who was one of the original founders of the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council in 1964, poetically responds to some of the famous quotes of Father Groppi and the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council members while they experienced life- threatening issues with racial discrimination in Milwaukee during the 1960s. (Asante Sana, Thank You Father James E. Groppi by Dr. Shirley R. (Berry) Butler-Derge (2010).

Author : Shirley R. Butler-Derge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0971754535

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Asante Sana, 'thank You' Father James E. Groppi by Shirley R. Butler-Derge Pdf

Author : Frank Aukofer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 087462021X

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City with a Chance by Frank Aukofer Pdf

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 officials who refused to recognize that a substantial number of people were still outsiders in their own city. Frank Aukofer walks us by the hand through the civil rights struggles in Milwaukee during the 1960s. Possessing all the qualities of a born reporter, he is able to tie up political, religious, social and personal aspects of these times into a complete history.

Author : Margaret Rozga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015080898904

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200 Nights and One Day by Margaret Rozga Pdf

Poetry. African American Studies. This book of poetry presents a brilliant analysis which takes us through the brave history of the strength, commitment and passion of the people of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as they marched, struggled, and were jailed to win the victory of justice and freedom for all. Peggy Rozga joined protestors, participated in freedom marches, and was jailed for fighting and marching for the rights of poor Black children of the city of Milwaukee under the leadership of one of the great advocates of non-violence, direct action, and civil disobedience of our times: Father James Edmund Groppi.

Author : Joanna Baillie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1802
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074906342

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A Series of Plays by Joanna Baillie Pdf

Author : Judson L. Jeffries
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253027788

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Comrades by Judson L. Jeffries Pdf

Essays about the original Black Panther Party’s local chapters in seven American cities that seek “to move beyond the usual media stereotypes . . . Recommended” (Choice). The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. It was perhaps the most visible of the Black Power groups in the late sixties and early seventies, not least because of its confrontational politics, its rejection of nonviolence, and its headline-catching, gun-toting militancy. Important on the national scene and highly visible on college campuses, the Panthers also worked at building grassroots support for local black political and economic power. Although there have been many books about the Black Panthers, none has looked at the organization and its work at the local level. This book goes beyond Oakland and Chicago examines the work and actions of seven local initiatives in Baltimore, Winston-Salem, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. These local organizations are revealed as committed to programs of community activism that focused on problems of social, political, and economic justice.

Author : Patrick D. Jones
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674274495

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The Selma of the North by Patrick D. Jones Pdf

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.

Author : Jack Dougherty
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807863467

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More Than One Struggle by Jack Dougherty Pdf

Traditional narratives of black educational history suggest that African Americans offered a unified voice concerning Brown v. Board of Education. Jack Dougherty counters this interpretation, demonstrating that black activists engaged in multiple, overlapping, and often conflicting strategies to advance the race by gaining greater control over schools. Dougherty tells the story of black school reform movements in Milwaukee from the 1930s to the 1990s, highlighting the multiple perspectives within each generation. In profiles of four leading activists, he reveals how different generations redefined the meaning of the Brown decision over time to fit the historical conditions of their particular struggles. William Kelley of the Urban League worked to win teaching jobs for blacks and to resettle Southern black migrant children in the 1950s; Lloyd Barbee of the NAACP organized protests in support of integrated schools and the teaching of black history in the 1960s; and Marian McEvilly and Howard Fuller contested--in different ways--the politics of implementing desegregation in the 1970s, paving the way for the 1990s private school voucher movement. Dougherty concludes by contrasting three interpretations of the progress made in the fifty years since Brown, showing how historical perspective can shed light on contemporary debates over race and education reform.

Author : Elizabeth May
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781452130071

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The Falconer by Elizabeth May Pdf

Edinburgh, 1844. Beautiful Aileana Kameron only looks the part of an aristocratic young lady. In fact, she's spent the year since her mother died developing her ability to sense the presence of Sithichean, a faery race bent on slaughtering humans. She has a secret mission: to destroy the faery who murdered her mother. But when she learns she's a Falconer, the last in a line of female warriors and the sole hope of preventing a powerful faery population from massacring all of humanity, her quest for revenge gets a whole lot more complicated. The first volume of a trilogy from an exciting new voice in young adult fantasy, this electrifying thriller blends romance and action with steampunk technology and Scottish lore in a deliciously addictive read.

Author : J. Theoharis,K. Woodard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403982506

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Freedom North by J. Theoharis,K. Woodard Pdf

The civil rights movement occupies a prominent place in popular thinking and scholarly work on post-1945 U.S. history. Yet the dominant narrative of the movement remains that of a nonviolent movement born in the South during the 1950s that emerged triumphant in the early 1960s, only to be derailed by the twin forces of Black Power and white backlash when it sought to move outside the South after 1965. African American protest and political movements outside the South appear as ancillary and subsequent to the 'real' movement in the South, despite the fact that black activism existed in the North, Midwest, and West in the 1940s, and persisted well into the 1970s. This book brings together new scholarship on black social movements outside the South to rethink the civil rights narrative and the place of race in recent history. Each chapter focuses on a different location and movement outside the South, revealing distinctive forms of U.S. racism according to place and the varieties of tactics and ideologies that community members used to attack these inequalities, to show that the civil rights movement was indeed a national movement for racial justice and liberation.

Author : Emilye Crosby
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820329635

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Civil Rights History from the Ground Up by Emilye Crosby Pdf

After decades of scholarship on the civil rights movement at the local level, the insights of bottom-up movement history remain essentially invisible in the accepted narrative of the movement and peripheral to debates on how to research, document, and teach about the movement. This collection of original works refocuses attention on this bottom-up history and compels a rethinking of what and who we think is central to the movement. The essays examine such locales as Sunflower County, Mississippi; Memphis, Tennessee; and Wilson, North Carolina; and engage such issues as nonviolence and self-defense, the implications of focusing on women in the movement, and struggles for freedom beyond voting rights and school desegregation. Events and incidents discussed range from the movement's heyday to the present and include the Poor People's Campaign mule train to Washington, D.C., the popular response to the deaths of Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King, and political cartoons addressing Barack Obama's presidential campaign. The kinds of scholarship represented here--which draw on oral history and activist insights (along with traditional sources) and which bring the specificity of time and place into dialogue with broad themes and a national context--are crucial as we continue to foster scholarly debates, evaluate newer conceptual frameworks, and replace the superficial narrative that persists in the popular imagination.

Author : Martin Summers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807864173

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Manliness and Its Discontents by Martin Summers Pdf

In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production. Examining both the public and private aspects of gender formation, Summers challenges the current trajectory of masculinity studies by treating black men as historical agents in their own identity formation, rather than as screens on which white men projected their own racial and gender anxieties and desires. Manliness and Its Discontents focuses on four distinct yet overlapping social milieus: the fraternal order of Prince Hall Freemasonry; the black nationalist Universal Negro Improvement Association, or the Garvey movement; the modernist circles of the Harlem Renaissance; and the campuses of historically black Howard and Fisk Universities. Between 1900 and 1930, Summers argues, dominant notions of what it meant to be a man within the black middle class changed from a Victorian ideal of manliness--characterized by the importance of producer values, respectability, and patriarchy--to a modern ethos of masculinity, which was shaped more by consumption, physicality, and sexuality. Summers evaluates the relationships between black men and black women as well as relationships among black men themselves, broadening our understanding of the way that gender works along with class, sexuality, and age to shape identities and produce relationships of power.

Author : Karl H. Flaming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015027789513

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Who "riots" and Why? by Karl H. Flaming Pdf

Author : C. Greig Crysler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134477937

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Writing Spaces by C. Greig Crysler Pdf

This book explores how journals mediate and transform our understanding and experience of buildings urban spaces and architectural cultures.

Author : Joe William Trotter
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252060350

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Black Milwaukee by Joe William Trotter Pdf

Other historians have tended to treat black urban life mainly in relation to the ghetto experience, but in Black Milwaukee, Joe William Trotter Jr. offers a new perspective that complements yet also goes well beyond that approach. The blacks in Black Milwaukee were not only ghetto dwellers; they were also industrial workers. The process by which they achieved this status is the subject of Trotter's ground-breaking study. This second edition features a new preface and acknowledgments, an essay on African American urban history since 1985, a prologue on the antebellum and Civil War roots of Milwaukee's black community, and an epilogue on the post-World War II years and the impact of deindustrialization, all by the author. Brief essays by four of Trotter's colleagues--William P. Jones, Earl Lewis, Alison Isenberg, and Kimberly L. Phillips--assess the impact of the original Black Milwaukee on the study of African American urban history over the past twenty years.