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Oral History Interview with Adolph Arms, August 17, 2007

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Arms, Adolph Thomas National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Youth Council; Milwaukee Police

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Oral history interview with Adolph Arms conducted by Michael Gordon on August 17, 2007 in Milwaukee, as part of the March on Milwaukee Oral History Project.Arms was born in Milwaukee and attended North Division High School before joining the Commandos. He discusses fellow marchers, the Freedom House, the 1968 Poor People's Campaign in Washington D.C., and job discrimination in the local union. Lastly, he recalls his impression of the Black Christmas boycott and the civil disturbances in July, 1967.

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University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee

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Recollection Wisconsin

Keywords

  1. Arrests And Curfews
  2. Black Christmas
  3. Black Power
  4. Davis, Johnny
  5. Fair Housing Demonstrations
  6. Gregory, Dick
  7. Groppi, James, 1930 1985
  8. Harwell, Nathaniel
  9. Imprisonment
  10. Marches
  11. Milwaukee
  12. Milwaukee (Wis.)
  13. Open Housing
  14. Open Housing Marches
  15. Oral Histories (Document Genres)
  16. Oral History
  17. Phillips, Vel
  18. Pitts, Orville
  19. Police Violence
  20. Poor People's Campaign
  21. Prejudice
  22. Race Relations
  23. Rozga, Margaret
  24. Tolliver, Duane
  25. Turan, Vince
  26. Washington (D.C.)
  27. Wisconsin

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