Voices of Milwaukee Bronzeville

Voices of Milwaukee Bronzeville
Author: Dr. Sandra E. Jones
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467148881

Some people don't have to imagine what Milwaukee's Bronzeville was like. They have only to remember. They recall Walnut Street alive with businesses serving a hardworking Black population making something out of the meager resources available to them. They describe religious establishments such as St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal, St. Benedict the Moor, Calvary Baptist and St. Matthew CME attending to the spiritual life and remember the Flame, the Metropole and Satin Doll nightclubs taking care of entertainment and secular needs. Above all, they recollect a people looking out for the well-being of all within its realm. 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.

Milwaukee's Bronzeville: 1900-1950

Milwaukee's Bronzeville: 1900-1950
Author: Paul H. Geenen
Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2006-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781531624378

With the migration of African American sharecroppers to northern cities in the first half of the 20th century, the African American population of Milwaukee grew from fewer than 1,000 in 1900 to nearly 22,000 by 1950. Most settled around a 12-block area along Walnut Street that came to be known as Milwaukee's Bronzeville, a thriving residential, business, and entertainment community. Barbershops, restaurants, drugstores, and funeral homes were started with a little money saved from overtime pay at factory jobs or extra domestic work taken on by the women. Exotic nightclubs, taverns, and restaurants attracted a racially mixed clientele, and daytime social clubs sponsored "matinees" that were dress-up events featuring local bands catering to neighborhood residents. Bronzeville is remembered by African American elders as a good place to grow up--times were hard, but the community was tight.

Bronzeville a Milwaukee Lifestyle: A Historical Overview

Bronzeville a Milwaukee Lifestyle: A Historical Overview
Author: Ivory Abena Black
Publisher:
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2006-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780977106509

Bronzeville a Milwaukee Lifestyle is an eye pleasing treat into Milwaukee's African American history. Over the years Milwaukee has seen a great influx of African Americans which led the city to experience a burst of rich culture that had never been seen before. In the inner city of Milwaukee, African Americans filled the streets with night clubs, restaurants, hotels, and social gathering centers which focused on family love and community building. This book will come to life and warm your hearts as you meet face to face the African Americans who made Bronzeville Milwaukee possible. A city within a city, it was an African American metropolis full of joy, laughter, and excitement. Come and experience the wealth of history and Milwaukee's African American culture.

Milwaukee's Bronzeville:

Milwaukee's Bronzeville:
Author: Paul H. Geenen
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2012-09-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439633029

With the migration of African American sharecroppers to northern cities in the first half of the 20th century, the African American population of Milwaukee grew from fewer than 1,000 in 1900 to nearly 22,000 by 1950. Most settled around a 12-block area along Walnut Street that came to be known as Milwaukee's Bronzeville, a thriving residential, business, and entertainment community. Barbershops, restaurants, drugstores, and funeral homes were started with a little money saved from overtime pay at factory jobs or extra domestic work taken on by the women. Exotic nightclubs, taverns, and restaurants attracted a racially mixed clientele, and daytime social clubs sponsored "matinees" that were dress-up events featuring local bands catering to neighborhood residents. Bronzeville is remembered by African American elders as a good place to grow up--times were hard, but the community was tight.

Struggle for the City

Struggle for the City
Author: Derek G. Handley
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2024-09-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0271098503

The urban renewal policies stemming from the 1954 Housing Act and 1956 Highway Act destroyed the economic centers of many Black neighborhoods in the United States. Struggle for the City recovers the agency and solidarity of African American residents confronting this diagnosis of “blight” in northern cities in the 1950s and 1960s. Examining Black newspapers, archival documents from Black organizations, and oral histories of community advocates, Derek G. Handley shows how African American residents in three communities—the Hill district of Pittsburgh, the Bronzeville neighborhood of Milwaukee, and the Rondo district of St. Paul—enacted a new form of citizenship to fight for their neighborhoods. Dubbing this the “Black Rhetorical Citizenship,” a nod to the integral role of language and other symbolic means in the Black Freedom Movement, Handley situates citizenship as both a site of resistance and a mode of public engagement that cannot be divorced from race and the effects of racism. Through this framework, Struggle for the City demonstrates how local organizers, leaders, and residents used rhetorics of placemaking, community organizing, and critical memory to resist the bulldozing visions of urban renewal. By showing how African American residents built political community at the local level and by centering the residents in their own narratives of displacement, Handley recovers strategies of resistance that continue to influence the actions of the Black Freedom Movement, including Black Lives Matter.

Black Milwaukee

Black Milwaukee
Author: Joe William Trotter
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1985
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780252060359

Other historians have tended to treat black urban life mainly in relation to the ghetto experience, but in Black Milwaukee, Joe William Trotter Jr. offers a new perspective that complements yet also goes well beyond that approach. The blacks in Black Milwaukee were not only ghetto dwellers; they were also industrial workers. The process by which they achieved this status is the subject of Trotter's ground-breaking study. This second edition features a new preface and acknowledgments, an essay on African American urban history since 1985, a prologue on the antebellum and Civil War roots of Milwaukee's black community, and an epilogue on the post-World War II years and the impact of deindustrialization, all by the author. Brief essays by four of Trotter's colleagues--William P. Jones, Earl Lewis, Alison Isenberg, and Kimberly L. Phillips--assess the impact of the original Black Milwaukee on the study of African American urban history over the past twenty years.

Learning to Cross Divides

Learning to Cross Divides
Author: Matthew Knoester
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2023-07-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000917681

This volume demonstrates how multilingual schooling can enhance democracy through a connection with the policies and practices of critical education. With its in-depth analysis of real schools that focus on the dual emphases of multiculturalism and integration, this book offers a comparative look at educational and political controversies over race, citizenship, and societal power relations. The authors describe the ambitious goals and critical multicultural and bilingual education strategies used at these schools, and, in doing so, they highlight how the challenges involved relate to larger theoretical issues that are inherent to a critically multicultural and bilingual education. This book examines what a truly critical multicultural and bilingual education means and what it requires of those who are intimately connected with these processes. As such, it will be important reading for those studying, teaching, or researching in Sociology of Education, Multicultural Education, Multilingual and Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, and Critical Education Studies.

Voices of Newcomers

Voices of Newcomers
Author: Denise Ammeraal Furlong
Publisher: Edumatch
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2021-12-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781953852533

This is an easy-to-read guide for all teachers looking to meet the needs of Multilingual Learners/English Learners, in particular Newcomers and SLIFE (Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education). Educators may feel intimidated admitting that they need to learn more about ways to help their students; here they will find easy-to-implement and non-judgmental support that busy teachers can put into place from the first moment they pick up the book. How to manage the first days and first weeks to assist their Newcomers in adjusting (academically, emotionally, socially) to their new school and class Asset-based perspectives on the progress of Multilingual Learners (MLs) Information that will help teachers academically engage these students, in addition to ways to assess and motivate them Reflection questions and discussions for each chapter to guide book clubs or conversations in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) Ready-to-use resources are provided to support educators as they meet the needs of MLs This book is designed to be a go-to resource for general education teachers, preservice teachers, administrators, and ESL/ENL teachers who need support in teaching children who are new to the country and have little English. By amplifying the voices of these students, their families, and their teachers, this handbook includes real-life stories to help educators understand these diverse perspectives. This book is practical for educators of all ages who want to best empower their students to succeed.

Black Nativity

Black Nativity
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1992
Genre: Christmas plays
ISBN: 9780871291929

Meet Me Halfway

Meet Me Halfway
Author: Jennifer Morales
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2015-04-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0299303640

Even the most ordinary moments are infused with an awareness of the lost past and a kind of prescience of the future. From one setting to another, these poems give voice to the human longing for permanence, home and connection in the face of a constantly changing reality.