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Oral History Interview with Shirley Butler, July 17, 2007

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Butler, Shirley National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Youth Council; City of Milwaukee Police Department; NAACP Youth Council Commandos

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Interview with Shirley Butler conducted by Amanda Wynne on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the March on Milwaukee Oral History Project.Butler, a native of Milwaukee, attended St. Boniface School and Pius High School. She discusses discrimination as a child and student in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council, the Commandos and Commando-ettes, and joining Father Groppi in the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.

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University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee

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Recollection Wisconsin

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Arms, Mary
  3. Arrests And Curfews
  4. Barbee, Lloyd A., 1925 2002
  5. Black Christmas
  6. Blackface
  7. Britton, Ronald P
  8. Churches
  9. Civil Rights
  10. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  11. Discrimination
  12. Discrimination In Housing
  13. Freedom March Planning And Organization
  14. Friend, Lawrence
  15. Groppi, James, 1930 1985
  16. Lee, Tommy
  17. Marches
  18. Mc Gee, Lee
  19. Meetings
  20. Milwaukee
  21. Milwaukee (Wis.)
  22. Non Violence
  23. Open Housing
  24. Prejudice
  25. Protests
  26. Race Relations
  27. Theaken, Ed
  28. Violence
  29. Wisconsin

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