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Larkey, Jay; Larkey, Hinda Congress of Racial Equality; Milwaukee Conference on Religion and Race

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Milwaukee civil rights demonstrators marched to protest police actions in Selma, Alabama that took place on March 7, 1965. The protest in Milwaukee was organized on March 13, 1965. About 2, 500 people marched from the headquarters of CORE to the Milwaukee County Courthouse. Some participants in the protest wore Yellow Armbands as a form of symbolic speech in the fight for equality in and desegregation of education and its institutions; as first symbolically demonstrated by federal marshals escorting African American children into the newly integrated New Orleans elementary schools, following Plessy vs. Ferguson.Color
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  1. African Americans
  2. Civil Rights
  3. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  4. Connection To The National Struggle
  5. March Of March 13, 1965 To Protest Police Action In Selma, Alabama
  6. Marches
  7. Milwaukee
  8. Protests
  9. Wisconsin

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