Oral History Interview with Mary Arms, July 29, 2007
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- 2007-07-29
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Oral history interview with Mary Arms conducted by Amanda Winn on Sunday July 29, 2007 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Arms, a member of Milwaukee's NAACP Youth Council, discusses her arrest and treatment by the Milwaukee police, protests, the Freedom House fire, the Black Christmas economic boycott, and her involvement with the Commandos including her naming of the group, and the Commando-ettes. Arms also reflects on Father Groppi as a leader, a priest, and a father figure to children.
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NAACP Youth Council Commandos; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Youth Council; City of Milwaukee Police Department; Ku Klux Klan; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- Oral History Interviews of the March on Milwaukee Oral History Project, 2007-2008
Archives. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
March On Milwaukee - Civil Rights History Project - Subjects
- Oral history--Wisconsin --Milwaukee
Oral histories (document genres)
Miilwaukee (Wis.)--Race relations
Marches
Protests
Civil rights
White power
Prejudice
Connection to the national struggle
Black power
Non-violence
Police violence
African American women civil rights workers
Groppi, James, 1930-1985
Phillips, Vel
Maier, Henry W
Rozga, Margaret
Breier, Harold A
Gregory, Dick
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
Carmichael, Stokely
Muhammad, Warith Deen, 1933-2008
Farrakhan, Louis
Britton, Ronald P
Butler, Shirley
Harris, Betty
Humphrey, Fortune
Hampton, Silas
McKinney, Ace
Benning, Dwight
McGee, Lee
Theaken, Ed
Waldheim, Peter
Friend, Lawrence
Lee, Tommy
Open housing marches
Civil disturbance of June 30, 1967
Picketing the Eagles Club
Picketing of aldermen homes
Black Christmas
Boycott of Schlitz beer
Freedom House Burning
Shooting of Clifford McKissick
Assassination of Malcolm X - Language
- English
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- NAACP Youth Council Commandos; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Youth Council; City of Milwaukee Police Department; Ku Klux Klan; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Oral History Interview with Mary Arms, July 29, 2007. 2007-07-29. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/march/id/1638. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- NAACP Youth Council Commandos; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Youth Council; City of Milwaukee Police Department; Ku Klux Klan; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, (2007-07-29) Oral History Interview with Mary Arms, July 29, 2007. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/march/id/1638
- MLA citation style
- NAACP Youth Council Commandos; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Youth Council; City of Milwaukee Police Department; Ku Klux Klan; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/march/id/1638>.