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Direct Action for Integrated Schools, 1964-66

Marching for Open Housing, 1967-68

Marilyn Morheuser, Lloyd Barbee, and MUSIC activists (Milwaukee Journal 1965)

James Groppi, Vel Phillips, and NAACP Youth Council activists (Milw Journal 67-

68)

What happens when Civil Rights History meets the Digital Era?

What happens when Civil Rights History meets the Digital Era?

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Milwaukeecivil rights

march in the

1940s?

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Milwaukeecivil rights

march in the

1940s?

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Milwaukeecivil rights

march in the

1940s?

Discover ‘forgotten’ sources

Opportunities & Challenges in Civil Rights & Digital History

Discover ‘forgotten’ sources

Opportunities & Challenges in Civil Rights & Digital History

Discover ‘forgotten’ sources

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Discover ‘forgotten’ sources

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What my desk looked like before the Internet

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What my desk looked like before the Internet

What my desktop looks like now with the Internet

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The Internet does NOT

contain everything

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The Internet does NOT

contain everything

BewareGooglegaps

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The Internet does NOT

contain everything

Much of our history has not been digitized

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The Internet does NOT

contain everything

Much of our history has not been digitized

. . . or saved

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Share different perspectives on the past

Opportunities & Challenges in Civil Rights & Digital History

Share different perspectives on the past

Opportunities & Challenges in Civil Rights & Digital History

Share different perspectives on the past

Opportunities & Challenges in Civil Rights & Digital History

Share different perspectives on the past

Opportunities & Challenges in Civil Rights & Digital History

Share different perspectives on the past

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Share different perspectives on the past

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Listen to activists

explain the movement in

their own words

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Listen to activists

explain the movement in

their own words

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Enable readers to share ideas

with one another

via ebookon the Web

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Enable readers to share ideas

with one another

via ebookon the Web

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But the Internet is

NOT accessible to

all

National data

on the “Digital Divide”

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But the Internet is

NOT accessible to

all

National data

on the “Digital Divide”

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Opportunities & Challenges in Civil Rights & Digital History

But the Internet is

NOT accessible to

all

National data

on the “Digital Divide”

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2007

Raise tough questions

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What is – and is not – Milwaukee civil rights history?

Which histories belong on the March on Milwaukee site?

And who decides?

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“supports understanding of the struggle for racial equality. . .”

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“supports understanding of the struggle for racial equality. . .”

But the time period is limited to 1954 - 1976

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Should the 1941 march for jobs with James Dorsey be part of this civil rights history ?

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Should the 1941 march for jobs with James Dorsey be part of this civil rights history ?

What about the 1979 Coalition to Save North Division protests with Howard Fuller?

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Should the 1941 march for jobs with James Dorsey be part of this civil rights history ?

What about the 1979 Coalition to Save North Division protests with Howard Fuller?

Or the 1990s school vouchers movement?

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All of these require us to work and listen to one anotherregarding Milwaukee’s shared civil rights history

Recommended links:

March on Milwaukee Civil Rights History Projecthttp://MarchOnMilwaukee.uwm.edu

Long Civil Rights Movement (LCRM) project, UNC Presshttps://lcrm.lib.unc.edu/voice/works/

Pew Internet & American Life Projecthttp://pewinternet.org/

- Jack Dougherty, Trinity College, September 2010

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