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Book Strolling Through Milwaukee s Ethnic History

Download or read book Strolling Through Milwaukee s Ethnic History written by Jill Florence Lackey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strolling through Milwaukee's Ethnic History provides an "up close and personal" look at local ethnic life by directing readers to the neighborhoods and venues where the groups left their marks. It brings readers directly into their experiences, whether it involves strolling through the environments they built or participating in contemporary ethnic activities.

Book Germans in Milwaukee  A Neighborhood History

Download or read book Germans in Milwaukee A Neighborhood History written by Jill Florence Lackey & Rick Petrie and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remains of earliest German settlements in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- German place names in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- Remains of German commerce in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- Remains of German institutions in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- Remains of German ways of life in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- German footprints on the physical terrain in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- Efforts to remove German footprints in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- Restoring Milwaukee's German essence.

Book The Potential for Anthropology and Urban Community Engagement

Download or read book The Potential for Anthropology and Urban Community Engagement written by Jill Florence Lackey and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between anthropology departments and their surrounding urban communities has been traditional limited by a number of factors. The Potential for Anthropology and Urban Community Engagement pushes past these limitations, developing a firm foundation from which applied anthropology can support grassroots research and lasting community programs. Using two partnering Milwaukee organizations as examples, this volume explores the need in urban neighborhoods for practicing anthropologists, how a high volume of asset-building programs can be developed by practicing anthropologists, and the potential efficacy of anthropology departments in partnering with urban neighborhoods.

Book Perspectives on Milwaukee s Past

Download or read book Perspectives on Milwaukee s Past written by Urban History Association. Meeting and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, a diverse group of scholars explore key themes in Milwaukee's history from settlement to the present. Contributors discuss the importance of socialism and labor in local politics; Milwaukee's ethnic diversity, including its unusually large and significant German American population; the function and origins of the city's residential architecture; and the role of religious and ethnic culture in forming the city's identity. Rich in detail, the essays also identify critical areas and methods for future investigations into Milwaukee's past. Contributors are Margo Anderson, Steven M. Avella, John D. Buenker, Jack Dougherty, Eric Fure-Slocum, Victor Greene, Thomas C. Hubka, Judith T. Kenny, Genevieve G. McBride, Aims McGuinness, Anke Ortlepp, Joseph A. Rodriguez, and N. Mark Shelley.

Book A Walk in the City

Download or read book A Walk in the City written by Libraries for Milwaukee and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Milwaukee s Old South Side

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jill Florence Lackey
  • Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
  • Release : 2013-02-11
  • ISBN : 9781531661090
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Milwaukee s Old South Side written by Jill Florence Lackey and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old South Side has always welcomed ethnic groups. In the late 1800s, the area was developed by immigrant Poles, who became the dominant population for over 100 years. They celebrated their traditions, building churches, businesses, and service organizations and bringing over distinctive features from their homeland. While other Milwaukee ethnic neighborhoods gradually dissipated in the mid-20th century because of assimilation pressures, freeway building, or urban renewal programs, the Old South Side remained solidly Polish. Perhaps for this reason, the area became the destination of the fair housing marches. By the late 1960s, African Americans began demanding legislation that would allow them to live anywhere in the city, including the Old South Side. While African Americans never migrated to the area in great numbers, other populations did. A survey nearly a half century later revealed that people of 110 national backgrounds now lived on the Old South Side, with the three largest groups being Mexicans, Poles, and American Indians. Today, the neighborhood faith communities, businesses, sports, and celebrations strongly reflect the influence of these three communities.

Book Historical Wisconsin Getaways

Download or read book Historical Wisconsin Getaways written by Sharyn Alden and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a trip back in time through Wisconsin's past with this useful guide. Historic places, people and events come to life in the delightful period photography featured. Included is information on where to stay and dine. For Wisconsin travelers and history buffs alike.

Book Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture

Download or read book Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture written by George Eisen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1995-10-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors use the unique lens of the history of sports to examine ethnic experiences in North America since 1840. Comprised of 12 original essays and an Introduction, it chronicles sport as a social institution through which various ethnic and racial groups attempted to find the way to social and psychological acceptance and cultural integration. Included are chapters on Native Americans, Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Canadians, African-Americans, Italian-Americans, Hispanics, and several more, showing how their sports participation also provided these communities with some measure of social mobility, self-esteem, and a shared pride.

Book Riverwest

Download or read book Riverwest written by Thomas L. Tolan and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents 170 years of Riverwest, a Milwaukee neighborhood "tucked neatly into a long curve of the Milwaukee River, north of downtown ... echoes some of the dominant themes in American history, from European immigration to racial integration and from urban decay to urban rebirth"--Foreword, p. [v]-vi.

Book From the Emerald Isle to the Cream City

Download or read book From the Emerald Isle to the Cream City written by Carl Baehr and published by Everything Goes Media. This book was released on 2018-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish-Milwaukee history begins with the first Irish immigrants who arrived during Milwaukee's founding in the mid-1830s. Irish laborers helped shape the city by cutting down bluffs, filling in marshes, digging a canal, and creating streets. They were joined in the late 1840s by more Irishmen who were fleeing the Great Famine and starvation in Ireland. It's a history populated with heroic figures, and it's a tale of overcoming some of Milwaukee's biggest tragedies: the sinking of the Lady Elgin, the Newhall House fire, the Third Ward fire. This historical tour captures it all--from the difficulties in adapting to American Ways to the successes (as seen in the many people who have Milwaukee streets and parks named for them). "From the Emerald Isle to the Cream City" describes how the Irish influenced the political, educational, religious, and sports landscape of Milwaukee and their impact on other ethnic groups, overcoming early poverty and bigotry to help make Milwaukee the city that it is today.

Book A History of the African American People

Download or read book A History of the African American People written by James Oliver Horton and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated collection of essays on the history of African Americans.

Book LGBT Milwaukee

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michail Takach
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 1467117285
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book LGBT Milwaukee written by Michail Takach and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 75 years, gays and lesbians have experienced tremendous social change in America. Gay and lesbian culture, once considered a twilight world that could not be spoken of in daylight, has become today's rainbow families, marriage equality victories, and record-breaking pride celebrations. For a medium-size Rust Belt city with German Protestant roots, Milwaukee was an unlikely place for gay and lesbian culture to bloom before the Stonewall Riots. However, Milwaukee eventually had as many--if not more--known LGBT+ gathering places as Minneapolis or Chicago, ranging from the back rooms of the 1960s to the video bars of the 1980s to the guerrilla gay bars of today.

Book The Latin Community on Milwaukee s Near South Side

Download or read book The Latin Community on Milwaukee s Near South Side written by John Gurda and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Master Register of Bicentennial Projects  February 1976

Download or read book Master Register of Bicentennial Projects February 1976 written by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Walking Milwaukee

    Book Details:
  • Author : Royal Brevvaxling
  • Publisher : Wilderness Press
  • Release : 2020-09-01
  • ISBN : 1643590219
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Walking Milwaukee written by Royal Brevvaxling and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get to Know the Wisconsin City’s Most Vibrant and Historic Neighborhoods Milwaukee is richly historic. This savvy, entertaining guide explores the best of it all. Local authors Royal Brevvaxling and Molly Snyder guide you through 31 unique walking tours that traverse Milwaukee’s length and breadth. Dive deep into the city with tours that illuminate its diverse neighborhoods, like the trendy East Side and the country-esque Northridge Lakes. Find everything from legendary Frank Lloyd Wright houses to custard stands to the birthplace of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. These urban treks are great ways to soak in the vibe of Brew City. Inside you’ll find 31 self-guided tours through this amalgam of small town and big city Tips on where to dine, have a drink, and shop Clear neighborhood maps and vital public transportation and parking details Trivia about local culture, neighborhood history, and architecture Each self-guided tour includes full-color photographs, a map, and need-to-know details like distance, difficulty, and more. Route summaries make each walk easy to follow, and a “Points of Interest” section lists the highlights of every tour. Walking Milwaukee provides the perfect path for a weekend or an after-work ramble. So grab your walking shoes, and become an urban adventurer!

Book The Selma of the North

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick D. Jones
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-01-01
  • ISBN : 0674057295
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book The Selma of the North written by Patrick D. Jones and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 dramaticÑand sometimes violentÑ1967 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 Òthe Selma of the North.Ó 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.