Several white Milwaukee residents remember how fear and unrest shrouded Milwaukee during the time of the Open Housing marches.
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High school sweethearts recall open housing struggle
Ken and Joyce McGhee were brought together by the Milwaukee Open Housing marches, during which they experienced tear gas and violence by angry white mobs.
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Open housing marches placed spotlight on racial discrimination, segregation
For 200 consecutive days from August 1967 to March 1968, local civil rights activists protested racial discrimination in housing in marches across the city. The March on Milwaukee contributed to the national fight for civil rights for African-Americans and to passage of the federal Fair Housing Act in 1968.