A well-researched and fascinating narrative...Jones has produced an outstanding study of the civil rights movement in Milwaukee which should prove a model for investigations of other Northern cities.
Ron Briley History News Network 20090419 Anyone living in Milwaukee in the '60s and old enough to be aware will recall a time of sharp tension. A riot erupted in the ... Read moreinner city during the summer of 1967, a year of unrest around the nation, and a white Roman Catholic priest organized black youth to march against the segregation that confined African Americans to Milwaukee's poorest, most run-down quarter. Whites responded with violence. And the police were not amused by challenges to the status quo. The story is recounted with lucid scholarship in The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee.
David Luhrssen Express Milwaukee 20090512 Selma of the North is a solid entry into the expanding bookshelf on civil rights activism in the North, offering what Jones rightly calls another tile to the mosaic of studies about the struggle for racial justice in the twentieth century.
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