Milwaukee has been called the most segregated urban area America. Here’s a visualization from Eric Fischer on Flickr.

Race and ethnicity 2010: Milwaukee

Maps of racial and ethnic divisions in US cities, inspired by Bill Rankin’s map of Chicago, updated for Census 2010.

Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Yellow is Other, and each dot is 25 residents.

Data from Census 2010. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA

beahbeah:

hoan bridge mothafuckas

Milwaukee Bridge (by danorth1)

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youthxenrage:

It’s the last day of Black History Month and this post is dedicated to my personal Civil Rights hero, an Italian American Catholic priest from the South Side of Milwaukee Father James Groppi.

Groppi who was placed at St. Bonifaces Church in the “inner core” of Milwaukee’s North Side was asked to serve as adviser of the NAACP Youth Commandos a young militant self defense group in Milwaukee dedicated to protecting the black community and those involved in the Civil Rights struggle in Milwaukee. They used the Christian virtue of justifiable self-defense, departing from the largely pacifist views of the more mainstream movement. The group along with the invaluable work of Vel Phillips the first woman and first African American elected to Milwaukee City Council in pushing fair housing laws in the city. Groppi led a 200 night protest for fair housing, putting the occupy movement to shame. With the Commandos and Groppi at the forefront they led numerous marches to the predominantly Polish and German South Side of the city where they often met with bottles and racial slurs from thousands of racist screaming whites. 

Groppi represents to me what it means to be an ally, to put yourself on the line knowing that you cannot fully understand the effects of racism but still being uncompromising to do everything in your power to combat it. Milwaukee to this day is the most segregated city in the country. This year the Urban Institute’s MetroTrends study rated Milwaukee at the very bottom 100th out of 100 cities for housing and economic equity between blacks and whites and 90th out of 100 for equity among Latinos and whites. Right now Milwaukee needs people like the Commandos to stand up and say enough is enough.

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Boys in class at what is now Milwaukee Area Technical College, 1920s.

I saw the second one on a billboard the other day and it made me happy. I’ve never actually been inside this library, though, despite passing it on the bus on my way home from school all the time. It does look pretty darn majestic from the outside and I’m told it’s extra majestic inside.

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