Milwaukee Avenue
Milwaukee Avenue

Author: Robert Roscoe

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2014-03-11

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1625847661

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In the 1970s, a politically savvy and hardworking neighborhood organization, the Seward West Project Area Committee (PAC), outmaneuvered a public agency's renewal plan to demolish approximately 70 percent of a historic neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Demolition would have included all the houses on Milwaukee Avenue, a half-hidden, very narrow two-block-long street flanked by small brick houses. Built in the 1880s, many of these houses were the very first homes in Minneapolis. "Milwaukee Avenue" offers a unique presentation of determined citizens saving their neighborhood in a decade that changed history.

Catalogue
Catalogue

Author: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. Library

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Published: 1968

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13:

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Voices of Milwaukee Bronzeville
Voices of Milwaukee Bronzeville

Author: Dr. Sandra E. Jones

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467148881

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Some people don't have to imagine what Milwaukee's Bronzeville was like. They have only to remember. They recall Walnut Street alive with businesses serving a hardworking Black population making something out of the meager resources available to them. They describe religious establishments such as St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal, St. Benedict the Moor, Calvary Baptist and St. Matthew CME attending to the spiritual life and remember the Flame, the Metropole and Satin Doll nightclubs taking care of entertainment and secular needs. Above all, they recollect a people looking out for the well-being of all within its realm. Gathering interviews with residents of the now-vanished neighborhood, Dr. Sandra E. Jones reimagines Bronzeville not just as a place, but as a spirit engendered by a people determined to make a way out of no way.