Bauman, Margaret
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I was a reporter for United Press International in Milwaukee who covered the open housing marches in Milwaukee, and did a number of interviews with Father James Groppi, as well as Dick Gregory, who came to participate in the demonstrations with the NAACP Youth Council. I still have the World War Two combat helmet I wore to work when covering these marches, to keep bricks, bottles and rocks thrown from third story rooftops on Milwaukee's South Side from landing on my head. I was one of the reporters who was on the scene that first time when the police threw tear gas on 16th Street on Milwaukee's South Side after the white residents became violent with the NAACP youth who were simply marching into the South Side singing freedom songs. The events that followed gave me a whole new picture of the "real" America. I have lived in Alaska for many years now and covered a number of issues, including the civil rights of Alaska Natives, fisheries and the environment, but the open housing marches i
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