- Collection:
- March on Milwaukee: Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Mildred Harpole, June 15, 1995
- Creator:
- Harpole, Mildred
Milwaukee United School Integration Committee
Milwaukee Public Schools
Freedom Schools - Contributor to Resource:
- Dougherty, Jack
- Date of Original:
- 1995-06-15
- Subject:
- Oral history
Oral history--Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Civil rights demonstrations--Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Schools
Protests (Negotiable instruments)
Segregation in education
Nonviolence
Civil rights
Interracial couples
Youth
Busing for school integration
Civil rights demonstrations - People:
- Barbee, Lloyd A., 1925-2002
- Location:
- United States, Wisconsin, 44.50024, -90.00041
- Medium:
- spoken word
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Sound
Text - Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Interview of Mildred Harpole, conducted by Jack Dougherty, July 17, 1995 (at her office in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Building, 310 West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee).
Mildred Harpole worked as a Reading Specialist at Wells Junior High School and Lincoln High School. She discusses teaching at Freedom Schools during 1964 and 1965, problems with Milwaukee Public Schools' busing program, her experience growing up in segregated schools in Baltimore and Cleveland, and running for the Milwaukee School Board in 1971. - Metadata URL:
- https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/march/id/1653
- IIIF manifest:
- https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/iiif/2/march:1653/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 audio file
1 text file - Original Collection:
- More Than One Struggle Oral History Project Records
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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