# black history

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120 pages, 43 photos, 6 maps, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870203886

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136 pages, 42 b/w photos and 11 maps, 8 x 9
ISBN:9780870204746

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160 pages, 86 b/w photos, illus., and maps, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204272

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156 pages, 60 b/w photos, 7x9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-575-0

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256 pages, 19 b&w photos, 1 map
ISBN: 9780870206788

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Produced by Wisconsin Public Television
Running time 60 minutes

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288 pages, 12 maps, 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780870207204

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115 pages, 8½ x 11
ISBN: 978-0-87020-754-9

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304 pages, 34 b&w photos, 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780870208386

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Author: Muriel Simms
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224 pages, 64 b/w illus., 6x9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-885-0

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Hundreds of African American soldiers and regimental employees represented Wisconsin in the Civil War, and many of them lived in the state either before or after the conflict. And yet, if these individuals are mentioned at all in histories of the state, it is with a sentence or two about their small numbers.... Full details below.

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Enslaved, Indentured, Free shines a light on five extraordinary Black women whose lives intersected in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, during seminal years of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.

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A bittersweet story of bravery and compassion, Finding Freedom provides the first full picture of the man for whom so many fought and around whom so much history was made.

Black Wisconsinites react to George Wallace. Wisconsin's place in the maple syrup industry. Book excerpt: Letters from Clara. More!

Using the Nguzo Saba, "or seven principles" of Kwanzaa, the author creates a story that shows how family members can pull together for their own good and the good of the entire community.

Gathering interviews with residents of the now-vanished neighborhood, Dr. Sandra E. Jones reimagines Bronzeville not just as a place, but as a spirit engendered by a people determined to make a way out of no way.

Two Trailblazing Black Women in the Republican Party. Wisconsin's "Plaster Doctor: Quack or Cure?" Book Excerpt: "Wisconsin Waters." More!

The Norway Building Finally Finds Home. Women's Agency and Divorce in Early Wisconsin. Book Excerpt: "Enslaved, Indentured, Free." More!

Winning Women's Suffrage. Lead Mining & Slavery. Book Excerpt: "Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate." More!

The first biography to chronicle the life and career of one of the most beloved musical artists to come out of Wisconsin. From his earliest days singing in the 1940s until his death in 2017, Jarreau defied categorization.

Milwaukee's Bronzeville, a thriving 12-block area along Walnut street, is remembered by African American elders as a good place to grow up—times were hard, but the community was tight.

Black Women, Community Intellectualism, and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee.

In this Issue: Pressley School of Beauty Culture; Polish Identity in Milwaukee; Book Excerpt: "Never Givin' Up: The Life and Music of Al Jarreau"

Ann Bausum chronicles the intertwining struggles of poverty, labor rights and civil rights culminating in the poignant final days of Martin Luther King Jr's life and his enduring legacy.