Posts Tagged ‘UWM’
Exhibit — Living for the City: The Black Middle Class in Milwaukee
A traveling exhibition in conjunction with the “Living for the City: The Black Middle Class in Milwaukee” oral history project, which challenges and complicates existing narratives about Black Milwaukee mired in narrow assertions of poverty, segregation, incarceration, and educational underachievement. These are not the only stories to tell about Black Milwaukee. Research confirms that Milwaukee’s…
Read MoreGrowing Resistance Gallery Tour, and Zine-making Event
Take a bus tour to the Brooks Stevens Gallery at MIAD and explore the Growing Resistance exhibit. Enjoy a docent led gallery tour and explore stories of residents from Milwaukee’s northside neighborhoods such as, Sherman Park, Washington Park, Midtown, and Lindsay Heights. Explore how they survive and flourish despite systemic apathy and racism. In addition to biographies and interview clips of leaders and residents who create transformative change, the exhibit audience will also read about homes, empty lots, and public spaces that were transformed by these community guardians.
Read MoreGenealogists want faster action from UWM and others on Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery remains
Two Wisconsin genealogists want to highlight the significance and protect the sanctity of Milwaukee’s poor burial sites, such as Cemetery One.
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