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- Collection:
- March on Milwaukee: Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Mary Arms, July 29, 2007
- Creator:
- NAACP Youth Council Commandos
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Youth Council
City of Milwaukee Police Department
Ku Klux Klan
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - Contributor to Resource:
- Wynn, Amanda
- Date of Original:
- 2007-07-29
- Subject:
- Oral history--Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Oral history
Milwaukee (Wis.)--Race relations
Marches
Protests (Negotiable instruments)
Civil rights
White supremacy movements
Prejudices
Civil rights demonstrations
Black power
Nonviolence
Police brutality
African American women civil rights workers
Christmas
Boycotts
Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co.
Freedom House (Monroe Youth Action Committee (N.C.))
Shooting
Assassination - People:
- Groppi, James, 1930-1985
Phillips, Vel, 1924-2018
Maier, Henry W., 1918-1994
Rozga, Margaret
Gregory, Dick
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998
Muhammad, Warith Deen, 1933-2008
Farrakhan, Louis
Butler, Shirley
Harris, Betty
McGee, Lee
Friend, Lawrence
Lee, Tommy - Location:
- United States, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, 43.0389, -87.90647
United States, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, 15th Street Freedom House
United States, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, 16th Street Bridge
United States, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Kosciuszko Park, 43.00446, -87.92231
United States, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, St. Boniface Church, 43.06612, -87.92592 - Medium:
- spoken word
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Sound
Text - Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Oral history interview with Mary Arms conducted by Amanda Winn on Sunday July 29, 2007 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Arms, a member of Milwaukee's NAACP Youth Council, discusses her arrest and treatment by the Milwaukee police, protests, the Freedom House fire, the Black Christmas economic boycott, and her involvement with the Commandos including her naming of the group, and the Commando-ettes. Arms also reflects on Father Groppi as a leader, a priest, and a father figure to children. - Metadata URL:
- https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/march/id/1638
- IIIF manifest:
- https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/iiif/2/march:1638/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 audio file
1 text file - Original Collection:
- Oral History Interviews of the March on Milwaukee Oral History Project, 2007-2008
Archives. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
March On Milwaukee - Civil Rights History Project - Contributing Institution:
- Golda Meir Library. Special Collections
- Rights:
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