Black History

Beautifully illustrated with historic photographs and original artwork, this compelling biography for young readers tells the remarkable story of fair housing advocate and civic leader Vel Phillips.

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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Paperback: $26.95
304 pages, 34 b&w photos, 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780870208386

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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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Author: Muriel Simms
Paperback: $18.95
224 pages, 64 b/w illus., 6x9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-885-0

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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.

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.

Paperback: $12.95
160 pages, 86 b/w photos, illus., and maps, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204272

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Paperback: $12.95
120 pages, 43 photos, 6 maps, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870203886

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

Paperback: $24.95
288 pages, 12 maps, 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780870207204

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Paperback: $12.95
156 pages, 60 b/w photos, 7x9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-575-0

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Paperback: $15.95
136 pages, 42 b/w photos and 11 maps, 8 x 9
ISBN:9780870204746

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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.

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.

Paperback: $18.95
256 pages, 19 b&w photos, 1 map
ISBN: 9780870206788

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Paperback: $19.95
115 pages, 8½ x 11
ISBN: 978-0-87020-754-9

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Produced by Wisconsin Public Television
Running time 60 minutes

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!

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

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

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