City with a chance : a case history of civil rights revolution / Frank A. Aukofer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aukofer, Frank.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--Social conditions--20th century.

Housing--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--History.

Housing.

Riots--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--History.

Riots.

Milwaukee (Wis.)--History--20th century.

Milwaukee (Wis.).

Groppi, James, 1930-1985.

Groppi, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee, Wisc. : Marquette University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 offic

Contents:

short title; title page; copyright page; dedication; table of contents; foreword; introduction; chapter 1 Detroit Came First; chapter 2 Milwaukee Joins the List; chapter 3 No Simple Answers; chapter 4 Gemütlichkeit & Stereotypes; chapter 5 Core Comes out of the Core; chapter 6 Music for Milwaukee; chapter 7 The ""White Nigger""; chapter 8 Eagles and Open Housing; chapter 9 City with a Chance; afterword; photo section

Notes:

Originally published: Milwaukee : Bruce Pub. Co., 1968; with new foreword and afterword.

ISBN:

1-4416-2345-0

0-87462-364-2

OCLC:

609853262