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MarchOnMilwaukee.uwm.edu. Marching for Open Housing, 1967-68. Direct Action for Integrated Schools, 1964-66. Marilyn Morheuser, Lloyd Barbee, and MUSIC activists (Milwaukee Journal 1965). James Groppi, Vel Phillips, and NAACP Youth Council activists (Milw Journal 67-68). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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MarchOnMilwaukee.uwm.edu
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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Opportunities & Challenges in Civil Rights & Digital History
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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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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Opportunities & Challenges in Civil Rights & Digital History
The Internet does NOT
contain everything
Much of our history has not been digitized
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Opportunities & Challenges in Civil Rights & Digital History
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
Opportunities & Challenges in Civil Rights & Digital History
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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Opportunities & Challenges in Civil Rights & Digital History
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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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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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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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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