On August 28, 1967, 200 NAACP Youth Council protestors started marching across the 16th Street Viaduct to the South Side in support of 6th Ward Alderwoman Vel Phillips’ proposed open housing ordinance to ban discrimination in the selling and renting of housing.
Read moreWhile nothing compared to the tragic loss of life that occurred, Milwaukee Public Library also lost something when the RMS Titanic sank: a shipment of materials in French and German.
Read more"It's a Wonderful Life" was playing at the Alhambra Theater in Downtown on January 28, 1947. Paperboys delivered The Milwaukee Journal after school. The front page carried the U.S. Weather Bureau forecast of "an inch or so of snow" for Wednesday, January 29. They were wrong.
Read moreWhen Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries overthrew the corrupt Cuban military dictator Fulgencio Batista on New Year's Day, 1959, a 37-year-old American mercenary born and raised in Milwaukee would soon become known as “The Butcher.”
Read moreGerald Kloss was The Milwaukee Journal's Green Sheet "Bard of Goerkes Corners." Many newspapers have humor columnists, but few columnists could write poetically. Jerry, as he was known among Journalites, was the latter.
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