Ruth Revels, First African American to Work in the Milwaukee Mayor’s Office
Learn more about Ruth Revels, the first African American to work in the Milwaukee Mayor's Office.
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Carl Sandburg's Town of Wauwatosa Home Found?
Finding an old address shouldn't be hard to find. Just check city directories and phone books. Unless it's Pulitzer Prize poet Carl Sandburg's Hawley Rd. home in the former Town of Wauwatosa, which didn't use address numbers until it adopted Milwaukee's 1930 street address grid system.
Read moreMilwaukee Streetcar Past Resurfaces
Last year, after a 60 year absence, streetcars returned to Milwaukee with The Hop. Recently, a remnant of Milwaukee’s streetcar past resurfaced after being paved over 70 years ago. One of this year's road construction projects is the replacement of the N. Port Washington Rd. bridge over W. Capitol Dr.
Read moreThe Color of Law in Milwaukee's Carleton's Addition
The Milwaukee Public Library has book club discussions of Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law, before he speaks about his critically-acclaimed indictment of public policies aiding and abetting racial segregation at the MATC Cooley Auditorium on Tuesday, October 16th, 5:30 p.m.
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