1967 Milwaukee riot

Race riot in Wisconsin, United States Long, hot summer of 1967 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. 1,740 100 4 1967 Milwaukee riot Rioters *Wisconsin National Guard Milwaukee Police Department *4,297 Army National Guard soldiershttps://books.google.com/books?id=_AVEAQAAMAAJ&q=5863 Hearings Before Special Subcommittee to Inquire Into the Capability of the National Guard to Cope with Civil Disturbances U.S. Government Printing Office 1967 5863 2023-03-18 2024-05-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20240518143447/https://books.google.com/books?id=_AVEAQAAMAAJ&q=5863#v=snippet&q=5863&f=false live The 1967 Milwaukee riot was one of 159 race riots that swept cities in the United States during the "Long Hot Summer of 1967". In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, African American residents, outraged by the slow pace in ending housing discrimination and police brutality,https://www.mpm.org/sites/default/files/images/exhibitions/special/mandela/edu%20pdfs/Timeline_Milwaukee_v2.pdf Timeline: Milwaukee Civil Rights Movement Milwaukee Public Museum 2026-02-28 began to riot on the evening of July 30, 1967. The inciting incident was a fight between teenagers, which escalated into full-fledged rioting with the arrival of police. Within minutes, arson, looting, and sniping were occurring in the north side of the city, primarily the 3rd Street Corridor. The city put a round-the-clock curfew into effect on July 31. The governor mobilized the National Guard to quell the disturbance that same day, and order was restored on August 3. Although the damage caused by the riot was not as destructive as in such cities as Detroit and Newark, many businesses in the affected neighborhoods were severely damaged. Tensions increased afterward between police and residents. The July disturbance also served as a catalyst to additional unrest in the city; equal housing marches held in August often turned violent as white residents clashed with black demonstrators. Background During the mid-1960s, there was race-related civil unrest in a number of major US cities, including riots in Harlem and Philadelphia in 1964; Los Angeles in 1965; and Cleveland and Chicago in 1966. During the summer of 1967, a total of 159 race riots broke out across the country in what would come to be known as the Long Hot Summer.Friedland Michael B. Lift Up Your Voice Like a Trumpet: White Clergy and the Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements, 1954–1973 1998 9780807846469 189 Univ of North Carolina Press https://books.google.com/books?id=gUlwYOFrTpAC&q=%22long+hot+summer%22+1967&pg=PA189 2020-11-07 2024-05-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20240518143448/https://books.google.com/books?id=gUlwYOFrTpAC&q=%22long+hot+summer%22+1967&pg=PA189#v=snippet&q=%22long%20hot%20summer%22%201967&f=false liveMcLaughlin Malcolm The Long, Hot Summer of 1967: Urban Rebellion in America 2014 Palgrave Macmillan 9781137269638 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=QI17AwAAQBAJ&q=%22long+hot+summer%22+1967&pg=PA1 2020-11-07 2024-05-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20240518143449/https://books.google.com/books?id=QI17AwAAQBAJ&q=%22long+hot+summer%22+1967&pg=PA1#v=snippet&q=%22long%20hot%20summer%22%201967&f=false live Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction 2011 Routledge 9781136820410 105 https://books.google.com/books?id=HcesAgAAQBAJ&q=%22long+hot+summer%22+1967+159&pg=PA105 Milwaukee communities had long been segregated when Alderwoman Vel Phillips, the first woman and African American to hold the position, proposed the first fair housingsee Housing discrimination in the United StatesAugust 2016 ordinance in March 1962.http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=Nrc:id-5,N:4294963828-4294963805&dsNavOnly=N:1095&dsRecordDetails=R:CS253 Martin Luther King and Wisconsin The Civil Rights Leader Shows his Support Wisconsin Historical Society 3 August 2012 19 August 2016 27 August 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160827132727/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=Nrc:id-5,N:4294963828-4294963805&dsNavOnly=N:1095&dsRecordDetails=R:CS253 live http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=Nrc:id-5,N:4294963828-4294963805&dsNavOnly=N:1095&dsRecordDetails=R:CS2700 Vel Phillips's Common Council Desk Wisconsin Historical Society 23 April 2013 19 August 2016 27 August 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160827111119/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=Nrc:id-5,N:4294963828-4294963805&dsNavOnly=N:1095&dsRecordDetails=R:CS2700 live She continued to introduce fair housing proposals over the next five years. Four times they were defeated by the city council.392–3 By the summer of 1967, tensions continued to escalate, and protests became increasingly common, including multiple demonstrations outside the private homes of the city's Aldermen. Mayor Henry Maier, the city council, and school board refused to address civil rights grievances, and relations between the police and the residents worsened. As historian Patrick Jones put it, "Blight had surrounded, and then devoured, the heart of Milwaukee's black community."Jones Patrick 2009 The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee https://books.google.com/books?id=Wk2NylFxF4sC&q=milwaukee+riot+1967 Harvard University Press 9780674031357143 Recent uprisings in Newark and Detroit, which had broken out July 12 and 23 respectively, only served to make matters worse.See 1967 Detroit riot and 1967 Newark riots LeRoy Jones, then one of 18 black police officers among the total of 2,056 officers in the city's department, described the situation: There were some rumors that something was going to happen ... We did know there was going to be a riot. The Police Department knew - one to two weeks ahead - that something was planned. It was predicted that it would be on 3rd Street.According to a study that was administered by Karl Flaming, over 95% of all local African Americans did not participate in this disturbance.https://books.google.com/books?id=Wk2NylFxF4sC&q=milwaukee+riot+1967 The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee Jones Patrick 2009 Harvard University Press 9780674031357 2020-11-07 2024-05-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20240518144521/https://books.google.com/books?id=Wk2NylFxF4sC&q=milwaukee+riot+1967#v=snippet&q=milwaukee%20riot%201967&f=false live A majority of the citizens that took part in this riot were young black men who lived in the inner core of Milwaukee. Of the participants, 35% were unemployed and 20% were classified as poor. Events thumb|upright|Map of Milwaukee, 1955 July 29 Around midnight on the evening of July 29, a fight broke out between two black women outside the St. Francis Social Center, on the corner of 4th and West Brown streets.https://archive.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/32420114.html Flash point: Racial tension in summer of 1967 fueled deadly violence Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 22 August 2016 18 May 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240518144516/https://archive.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/32420114.html live A crowd of 350 spectators gathered, and when police arrived to respond to the disturbance, the crowd began to throw rocks at police vehicles.144 Soon more police came, dressed in riot gear. Some property damage was done but the crowd was quickly dispersed.Thompson William 28 March 2013 Continuity and Change, 1940-1965: History of Wisconsin https://books.google.com/books?id=6a7_wcuJitUC&q=1967+milwaukee+riot Wisconsin Historical Society 9780870206337 7 November 2020 18 May 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240518144520/https://books.google.com/books?id=6a7_wcuJitUC&q=1967+milwaukee+riot#v=snippet&q=1967%20milwaukee%20riot&f=false live 387 July 30 The day of Sunday, July 30 was calm, but rumors spread and tensions grew.144 A large crowd gathered that evening on 3rd Street. It is not clear what event started the outbreak, but at least one story circulated that police had assaulted a young boy. Squire Austin, who was at a civil rights rally, recalled, "The rumor we got ... was that police had beaten up a kid pretty bad over on Third and Walnut ... that's when the looting and firebombing started."144 By 10:00 PM a crowd of 300 were throwing projectiles at stores owned by white residents, starting fires, and looting.387144 The police reacted with violence, and the mob reacted in turn.387 More fights broke out around 3rd Street, and shootings were reported on Center Street. Along the area from West State street to West Burleigh street looting broke out, multiple shootings occurred, and more fires were set. Just prior to midnight, the mayor went to City Hall to meet with Police Chief Harold Breier. Reports of the first fires came in, along with reports of dispatched firefighters being assailed by stones and prevented from extinguishing them. The mayor requested Governor Warren Knowles notify the Wisconsin National Guard to be on standby. July 31 Around 2 AM on July 31, in the area around North 2nd street and West Center street, iron worker Milton L. Nelsen was slowly driving through the mostly black inhabited area while reportedly yelling racial slurs, when someone shouted "He's got a gun in the glove compartment." Shotgun fire came from a nearby house, and Nelsen was shot in the face. Hannah Jackson, a bystander, was also hit. The man who fired the gun, John Oraa Tucker, was later charged for the shooting, and maintained he did so out of fear for his and his family's safety.https://www.jsonline.com/story/life/green-sheet/2018/07/17/only-murder-trial-67-milwaukee-riot-had-unexpected-ending/780576002/ The only murder trial stemming from the '67 Milwaukee riot didn't end the way many expected 2021-09-08 2021-04-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20210419031759/https://www.jsonline.com/story/life/green-sheet/2018/07/17/only-murder-trial-67-milwaukee-riot-had-unexpected-ending/780576002/ live When police responded, officer Bryan Moschea was shot and killed when he entered a building thought to be the location of an unrelated sniper. His badly burned body was not able to be recovered until the following day.https://city.milwaukee.gov/police/About-MPD/Memorial-Page/Bryan-Moschea Bryan Moschea 2021-09-08 2021-09-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20210908040653/https://city.milwaukee.gov/police/About-MPD/Memorial-Page/Bryan-Moschea livehttps://www.odmp.org/officer/9673-police-officer-bryan-j-moschea Police Officer Bryan J. Moschea 2021-09-08 2021-09-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20210908040652/https://www.odmp.org/officer/9673-police-officer-bryan-j-moschea live Four other officers were wounded. LeRoy Jones, Kenneth Hagopian, and John Carter among them The body of Annie Mosley, aged 77, was found in the burned-out building. She had been shot in the head. Another woman, Willie Ella Green, aged 43, suffered a fatal heart attack running from her second story apartment. The mayor received word of the shootings and fire at West Center at 2:26 AM. He declared a state of emergency, and imposed a citywide curfew, which took effect at 3:40 AM.387 At the Mayor's request, the National Guard was activated.http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/columnists/jim-stingl/2016/08/16/look-back-milwaukees-1967-riot/88825546/ Stingl: A look back at Milwaukee's 1967 riot Stingle Jim 17 August 2016 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 19 August 2016 19 August 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160819134123/http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/columnists/jim-stingl/2016/08/16/look-back-milwaukees-1967-riot/88825546/ live The mayor lifted the curfew from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM. This resulted in a rush on downtown and suburban supermarkets. As the story in the Milwaukee Journal described it: Grocery shopping Monday meant standing in long lines and waiting ... Shoppers came in families. Sometimes there were six adults in a car. They seemed to be shopping more from compulsion than need.45 By the end of the day businesses, public transportation, utilities and educational institutions had all closed, and deliveries of milk and cattle to the city had halted.Simonetti Kristin 2008 Mediated Memory: Framing and Sustaining Collective Memory of the 1967 Milwaukee Race Riots in Contemporary and Retrospective Newspaper Coverage Master of Arts Chapel Hill https://books.google.com/books?id=ouc-21JrOS0C 22 August 201641 August 1 onward On August 1, Mayor Maier issued an order relaxing the curfew to only night hours. Some people began returning to work and some public services became available, at least partially. Police responded to reports that youths were lighting a paint store on fire. Clifford McKissick, aged 18, was shot in the neck and killed as he fled toward the nearby family home. The Milwaukee County's emergency hospital was closed and all personnel were transferred to the general hospital, which was farther away from the city, and deemed better capable of coping with the large number of casualties.41–2 The Milwaukee Sentinel published a piece August 2 describing the plight of those who were restricted by the curfew, saying that they "were outside on their porches or standing next to their apartment buildings, watching. If they got too far away from their homes, though, police and guardsmen moved in."44 On August 3 the mayor postponed the curfew from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM.43 On August 4 the mayor postponed the curfew from 9:00 PM to midnight, and announced that liquor stores and bars would be allowed to open and sell alcohol.43 Casualties and cost In total, the riot resulted in three to four deaths (including at least one police officer), 100 injuries, and 1,740 arrests.https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/racial-violence-in-milwaukee-was-decades-in-the-making-residents-say.html Racial Violence in Milwaukee Was Decades in the Making, Residents Say The New York Times August 14, 2016 August 17, 2016 John Eligon May 18, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240518144519/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/racial-violence-in-milwaukee-was-decades-in-the-making-residents-say.html live According to stories published by the Milwaukee Journal on August 2 and 4, more than $200,000 in window damage had been done to businesses, and the cost of mustering and paying the National Guard to intervene amounted to nearly $300,000.43 Aftermath On August 3, 1967, an alliance of civil rights organizations and male priest held a dinner to tribute Father James Groppi and honor his contributions to the local struggle for racial equity in Milwaukee and the state of Wisconsin. On August 27, 1967, the local NAACP, led by Father Groppi, held a march of about a hundred into a white neighborhood in protest of the city's housing laws. They came up against a crowd of 5,000 who retaliated with racial epithets, stones, and garbage. The following day Groppi addressed a meeting of supporters at St. Boniface Church, and prepared them for what was likely to come: If there is any man or woman here who is afraid of going to jail for his freedom, is afraid of getting tear gassed, or is afraid of dying, you should not have come to this meeting tonight.http://wuwm.com/post/1960s-decade-turmoil-and-change-milwaukee#stream/0 The 1960s: A Decade of Turmoil and Change in Milwaukee Bach Bob 14 August 2016 WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio 19 August 2016 18 May 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240518145033/https://www.wuwm.com/regional/2016-08-14/the-1960s-a-decade-of-turmoil-and-change-in-milwaukee#stream/0 live On August 29, the curfew was lifted and Groppi led 200 members of the Milwaukee NAACP on a march out of the ghetto and toward Kosciuszko Park, in an area predominately inhabited by white residents. The mob they met had grown to 13,000 and the protesters came under sniper fire as they returned to their headquarters. It was burned down later that night or early the next morning. The Mayor issued an order banning such demonstrations, and both Groppi and Phillips were arrested.http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=Nrc:id-5,N:4294963828-4294963805&dsNavOnly=N:1095&dsRecordDetails=R:CS2652 Father Groppi 'Denial of Absolution' Collage Wisconsin Historical Society 19 October 2012 19 August 2016 27 August 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160827124013/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=Nrc:id-5,N:4294963828-4294963805&dsNavOnly=N:1095&dsRecordDetails=R:CS2652 live On September 4, Martin Luther King Jr. sent a telegram from Atlanta in support: What you and your courageous associates are doing in Milwaukee will certainly serve as a kind of massive nonviolence that we need in this turbulent period. You are demonstrating that it is possible to be militant and powerful without destroying life or property. Please know that you have my support and my prayers.On September 17, Groppi made an appearance on Face the Nation. This was televised on CBS. In September, Dick Gregory had issued a formal boycott against Schlitz and many other brewing companies. On October 3, 200 demonstrators marched to Schlitz and Blatz brewery underline their protest. This was supposed to put pressure on the companies to gain support for open housing. On April 8 of 1968, 15,000-20,000 participated in a memorial march in downtown Milwaukee. On May 13, NAACP president and vice president Fred Bronson and Fortune Humphrey led 13 organizations and 450 people on a march to the Public Safety building to push for better police-community relations. A resolution was posted by Bronson and Humphrey that asked the mayor to lay off Chief Breier to "restore sanity" in police operations and to protect the black community from being controlled by a police force. Groppi went on to lead 200 consecutive days of protests. Father Groppi resigned as advisor to the YC in November 1968. In 1968, Mayor Henry Maier was reelected for his 3rd term and received more than 80% of the total votes. This was the largest runaway victory that Milwaukee had ever seen. On September 21, 1969, Groppi led a group of welfare mothers, low income African Americans, college students, Latinos and many others on a march from Milwaukee to Madison to protest the potential possibility of cuts for Wisconsin's state welfare budget. Legal changes thumb|250px|President Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1968 In the immediate aftermath of the riot and marches, little was accomplished in the way of laws, policies, and programs. Speaking of the lack of available funding for enacting proposed reforms, Mayor Maier said: The city of Milwaukee can no more finance the crucial problems of poverty, ignorance, disease and discrimination with the property taxes of relatively poor people than the city of Milwaukee can finance sending a man to the moon.392 However, later that year the mayor rejected federal benefits, as they required support for fair housing in the city. He argued instead that the problem was a county-wide one. Support continued to grow for a housing measure, supported by the League of Women Voters and local workers unions. A petition circulated by supporters of fair housing garnered 8,000 signatures. A petition that opposed such legislation was presented to the city council with 27,000 signatures.393 In December, the city passed a form of fair housing that included enough exemptions, that it only applied to about a third of the housing in the city.393–4 Groppi dismissed it as "tokenism and crumbs". Phillips voted against the measure, saying it was "very much too late with very much too little".394 On April 11, 1968, a week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the US Congress passed the Fair Housing Act, as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1968.Civil Rights Act of 1866 & Civil Rights Act of 1871 – CRA – 42 U.S. Code 21 §§1981, 1981A, 1983, & 1988 http://finduslaw.com/civil-rights-act-1866-civil-rights-act-1871-cra-42-us-code-21-1981-1981a-1983-1988 findUSlaw 3 October 2013 5 October 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131005023009/http://finduslaw.com/civil-rights-act-1866-civil-rights-act-1871-cra-42-us-code-21-1981-1981a-1983-1988 live Faced with capitulation, or the violation of federal law, the Milwaukee Common Council followed on April 30, passing an ordinance that was stronger than that required by the federal law.http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=Nrc:id-5,N:4294963828-4294963805&dsNavOnly=N:1095&dsRecordDetails=R:CS431 Desegregation and Civil Rights in Wisconsin Housing and Racism Wisconsin Historical Society 3 August 2012 19 August 2016 27 August 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160827114224/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=Nrc:id-5,N:4294963828-4294963805&dsNavOnly=N:1095&dsRecordDetails=R:CS431 live Casting a tie-breaking vote, council president Robert Jendusa said he hoped the measure might "heal some of the wounds of the community".394 Public opinion According to Nesbit, the riots "widened the gap between militant blacks and other civil rights activists and the uncompromising white majority in the city."Nesbit Robert Carrington 2004 Wisconsin: A History https://books.google.com/books?id=yVCoRShIIKMC&q=1967+milwaukee+riot Univ of Wisconsin Press 534 9780299108045 2020-11-07 2024-05-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20240518145022/https://books.google.com/books?id=yVCoRShIIKMC&q=1967+milwaukee+riot#v=snippet&q=1967%20milwaukee%20riot&f=false live Thomson described the disparate interpretations of the event, emphasizing that blacks tended to view it as "a violent expression of the accumulated frustration and anger, undesirable but understandable", while whites believed it represented "the failure of black parents to control their children, irresponsible and rebellious individuals and the agitation of civil rights activists..."388 Blacks tended to see solutions in public reforms and the advancement of civil rights, while whites tended toward the need for increased policing and gun control. In an article published August 1, 1967, by the Milwaukee Sentinel, an interview was reported with "John", an anonymous black rioter in his 20s: He's (the white man) out there marching up and down with his guns. Why can't we march up and down with our guns? ... We went before (Mayor) Maier and we argued and argued and argued and argued and argued and it didn't do no good...47 A study conducted by the Milwaukee Urban League found that, among blacks arrested during the riot, 90% cited "blocked job opportunities" as one of the root causes.1969 Final Report https://books.google.com/books?id=0yS7AAAAIAAJ Advisory Committee on the report of the National Commission on Civil Disorders 2016-08-22 2024-05-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20240518145033/https://books.google.com/books?id=0yS7AAAAIAAJ live 57 The same study found that 53% of blacks arrested were unemployed or underemployed compared to 29% among blacks not participating in the riot.57 In another University of Wisconsin study, 54% of blacks interviewed reported that police brutality had a "great deal" to do with the riot. Another 55% felt that lack of respect and insults by police occurred frequently in the ghetto.30 According to a research conducted by Jonathon Slesinger, 24% of inner city blacks described this event as a civil rights struggle, while 43% of inner city whites viewed it as a riot.Study of Community Opinions Concerning the Summer 1967 Civil Disturbances in Milwaukee Slesinger Jonathon Avery The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Office of Applied Social Research School of Social Welfare and Institute of Human Relations 1968 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 9 Opinions on how to avoid future disturbances varied between white people and black people. For the white inner city respondents, 51% wanted to give police more power so suspicious people on streets would be stopped and get searched. Of the inner city Black respondents, 84% favored a proposal that would reduce racial disparity and provide more jobs for black people. Legacy The Clifford McKissick Community School in Milwaukee was named for the black youth killed by police on August 2 as part of the riot.http://archive.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/32420049.html As calm returns, a 4th life ends: 18-year-old college student shot dead in aftermath of attempted fire-bombing Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 19 August 2016 19 August 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170819192228/http://archive.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/32420049.html live Dougherty Jack 15 December 2005 More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee https://books.google.com/books?id=27CpZ9Q79UsC&q=1967+milwaukee+riot&pg=PA123 Univ of North Carolina Press 123 9780807863466 7 November 2020 18 May 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240518145024/https://books.google.com/books?id=27CpZ9Q79UsC&q=1967+milwaukee+riot&pg=PA123#v=snippet&q=1967%20milwaukee%20riot&f=false live In 1981, his family filed a civil lawsuit alleging excessive force on the part of officer Ralph Schroeder in the shooting death of McKissick. A Circuit Court ruled in favor of the officer and found that McKissick was responsible for his own death.http://law.justia.com/cases/wisconsin/supreme-court/1975/546-1974-3.html McKissick v. Schroeder Justia 19 August 2016 11 September 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160911012928/http://law.justia.com/cases/wisconsin/supreme-court/1975/546-1974-3.html live A year after the riots, John Oraa Tucker, a Shorewood High School janitor who lived in the house burned on the morning of July 31 (where Nelsen and a police officer were killed, among four others who were wounded) was charged with 9 counts of attempted murder. After the longest jury trial in Milwaukee County Court history (17 days of verdict deliberation) he was cleared on the most serious charges, but found guilty of endangering the safety of the public and given a 25-year sentence. He was paroled on July 1, 1977, just under 10 years into his sentence, and moved to Wausau, Wisconsin. Asked about the events and his convictions in an interview two weeks after his release, Tucker remarked "As long as people's minds are in the past, it puts bumps and obstacles in the way of the future. It's been a long time. Let's forget about it." In a 1970 case heard before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Interstate Fire & Casualty Co. v Milwaukee, a company sought $506.93 in damages done to a tavern during the riots. In its decision siding with the city, the court wrote: thumb|Residential black segregation as of the 2000 census In this era of "confrontation politics", "protest marches", and "civil disobedience" it is naive to think that riot statues such as that before the court will retard such occurrences or keep them from developing into damaging riots, especially considering the spontaneity with which they occur.1973 State of Wisconsin Blue Book https://books.google.com/books?id=8FYkAQAAIAAJ&q=milwaukee+riot+1967 Industrial Commission 2021-01-12 2024-05-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20240518145030/https://books.google.com/books?id=8FYkAQAAIAAJ&q=milwaukee+riot+1967#v=snippet&q=milwaukee%20riot%201967&f=false live In 1980, twelve years after the passage of Milwaukee's equal housing ordinance, the city ranked second nationally among the most racially segregated suburban areas.394 As of 2000, it was the most segregated city in the country according to data gathered by the US Census Bureau.Jet Milwaukee is most segregated city: U.S. Census analysis December 16, 2002 In a July 2017 study by the Wall Street Journal of the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas, Milwaukee was listed the 11th most segregated city.https://247wallst.com/special-report/2017/07/21/16-most-segregated-cities-in-america/ 16 Most Segregated Cities in America 247wallst.com 2018-10-08 en 2018-10-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20181008014058/https://247wallst.com/special-report/2017/07/21/16-most-segregated-cities-in-america/ live See also United States 2016 Milwaukee riots List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States Mass racial violence in the United States Notes References 30em Category:1967 in Wisconsin Category:African-American history of Milwaukee Category:African-American riots in the United States Category:1960s in Milwaukee Category:Riots and civil disorder in Wisconsin Milwaukee Category:July 1967 in the United States Category:August 1967 in the United States Category:White American riots in the United States Category:Anti-black racism in Wisconsin Category:Housing in Wisconsin Category:Long, hot summer of 1967