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Wisconsin Magazine of History
all night-time marches for the next 30 days. Father Groppi and the Youth Council had learned a year earlier dur¬ ing their campaign against the mem¬ bership of public officials in the all-white Eagles Club that all their work of organizing and building momentum could be undone through such official cooling off periods. Nev¬ ertheless, they decided to call off the march for Wednesday, August 30. They gathered instead at their burned out headquarters to meet those who hadn't gotten the word of the cancella¬ tion and to rally on the Freedom House property for open housing. Alderman Phillips, who had intro¬ duced a fair housing ordinance in the Common Council multiple times, joined them.
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Police declared the assembly unlawful and arrested over fifty people. These arrests prompted Father Groppi and the Youth Council
Commandoes, to reverse their strategy. If they were going to be arrested even when they didn't march, they may as well march. On August 31, the crowds outside of St. Boniface church, 2609 North 11th Street, struggled to make their way inside the church that was filled to overflowing. Dramatic newspaper photos of the Freedom House on fire and stories about the arrests of the night before brought an outpouring of support. People of all ages from throughout the neighbor¬ hood and the entire city gathered ready for the next step. They followed Father Groppi, the Commandoes, and other Youth Council members from the church, south on 11th Street toward North Avenue, heading downtown to city hall where they wanted to see the mayor. At about 9th and North Avenue, the police moved in and first arrested Father Groppi and Alderman Phillips and then filled the waiting patrol wag¬ ons with others marchers.
The next day the Milwaukee Journal reported that 117 adults and 17 juveniles had been arrested during the demon¬ stration. Most were charged with violating the mayor's procla¬ mation and had paid $25 bail. Alderman Vel Phillips was released without bail. In addition to the charge of violating the mayor's proclamation. Father Groppi was charged with resist¬ ing arrest and battery and obstructing an officer. In the trial of this case, the question of whether a defendant was entitled to a change of venue in a misdemeanor trial became central. Father Groppi was denied a change of venue by the lower courts. Eventually he won the point in the U.S. Supreme
REV JAMES E GROPPEj ST BONIFACE CATHOLIC CHURCH
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yaiF. ACTIONS INSPIRE ME DEEPLY I HAVE RECENTLY C 0,NTEND£0-TKAT- '*E IM THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE MUST FIND A MIODLF GROUND BETWEEN RIOTS AND SENTIMENTAL AND TIMID SUPPLICATIOrjS FOR JUSTICE THIS .tANS ESCALATING NONVlCLErCE EVEK TO THE SCALE OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE F !\£CESSARY WHAT YOU A.NO YOUR COURAGEOUS ASSOCIATES ARE DOING IN MILWAUKEE KILL CERTAINLY SERVE AS A KINO OF MASSIVE NONVIOLENCE THAT i(E NEEO IN THIS TURBULENT .°ERIOD YOU ARE DEMONSTRATING THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO BE MILITANT AND POWERFl.!. WITHOUT. DESTROY ING QFE OR PROPERTY PLEASE KNOW THAT YOU HAVE MY SUPPORT AND MY fRAYERS YOU ARE MOVING IN THE GREAT TRADITION BY THOSE WHO #tE lilILLING TO STAND UP F CR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE AND YOO ARE MOTIVATED BY A DEEP COMMITMENT TO CHRISTIANITY MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS IN ALL OF YOUR CREATIVE AND COURAGEOUS ENDEAVORS MARTIN LUTHER KING JR
^^^"^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ouHesyTt the author The supportive telegram sent by Martin Luther King Jr. to Father Groppi, September 4, 1967.
Court. But this time, County Judge Christ Seraphim set Father Groppi's bail at $1000, calling Groppi a 'repeater,' and asserting his belief that "the public has a right to be protected from a repeater. You have to deal with crime as you would with a disease. You have to isolate it."^^ National news media rushed to cover the Milwaukee demonstrations following these mass arrests. Thus the Milwaukee Open Housing Move¬ ment entered a third phase, that of a national movement.
The NAACP immediately dispatched reinforcements to Mil¬ waukee, including regional field director Sydney Finley, who was arrested with Father Groppi the next night, and regional youth director William Hardy. National Youth Director Mark Rosen- man arrived the following day. The NAACP also put out a call to its other branches to join the Milwaukee Youth Council in marching the next weekend. As a result, the march September 10, 1967, drew over 5,000 supporters of fair housing, the largest march to date in Milwaukee.^^ Sam Dennis, an agent with the U.S. Department of Justice, was also with Father Groppi the night of the rally at the burned out Freedom House.^^
Letters of support came from longtime civil rights activists, including the Rev. Kelly Miller Smith, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee, whose church was a headquarters for the students who initiated the lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville and who later became the founders of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King sent a telegram that included these words of support: "What you and your courageous associates
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| Title | Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 90, number 4, summer 2007 |
| Article Title | Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 90, number 4, summer 2007 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
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| Article Title | March on Milwaukee |
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| Full Text | 203816_EP.qxd:WMH_template_2005.qxd 5/22/07 12:18 AM Page 3i Wisconsin Magazine of History all night-time marches for the next 30 days. Father Groppi and the Youth Council had learned a year earlier dur¬ ing their campaign against the mem¬ bership of public officials in the all-white Eagles Club that all their work of organizing and building momentum could be undone through such official cooling off periods. Nev¬ ertheless, they decided to call off the march for Wednesday, August 30. They gathered instead at their burned out headquarters to meet those who hadn't gotten the word of the cancella¬ tion and to rally on the Freedom House property for open housing. Alderman Phillips, who had intro¬ duced a fair housing ordinance in the Common Council multiple times, joined them. 3 OF ^FftVlC? x. WtiblliKJ> TELEGRAM U.Ni ;/ The tiling tisnt ilwA-nin ilw ibic li^t ifi. trk-Krami ;i 1.CCA1. TJW- *i ^oim of ;-.ii>;iti. Time 11}6A cot SEP 4 6? MAlyU aaotb A LL^n QL PD ATLANTA GA_ U-IV^Om-EXiT Ui^'. Cl t^yi\4CA\. jpill ¦J- <: ¦ ...Jr.:,...:.-..,..: 1 ..f.lecinati'ii. 1 '* . ... • /¦• ' ¦ ¦;¦.¦' Police declared the assembly unlawful and arrested over fifty people. These arrests prompted Father Groppi and the Youth Council Commandoes, to reverse their strategy. If they were going to be arrested even when they didn't march, they may as well march. On August 31, the crowds outside of St. Boniface church, 2609 North 11th Street, struggled to make their way inside the church that was filled to overflowing. Dramatic newspaper photos of the Freedom House on fire and stories about the arrests of the night before brought an outpouring of support. People of all ages from throughout the neighbor¬ hood and the entire city gathered ready for the next step. They followed Father Groppi, the Commandoes, and other Youth Council members from the church, south on 11th Street toward North Avenue, heading downtown to city hall where they wanted to see the mayor. At about 9th and North Avenue, the police moved in and first arrested Father Groppi and Alderman Phillips and then filled the waiting patrol wag¬ ons with others marchers. The next day the Milwaukee Journal reported that 117 adults and 17 juveniles had been arrested during the demon¬ stration. Most were charged with violating the mayor's procla¬ mation and had paid $25 bail. Alderman Vel Phillips was released without bail. In addition to the charge of violating the mayor's proclamation. Father Groppi was charged with resist¬ ing arrest and battery and obstructing an officer. In the trial of this case, the question of whether a defendant was entitled to a change of venue in a misdemeanor trial became central. Father Groppi was denied a change of venue by the lower courts. Eventually he won the point in the U.S. Supreme REV JAMES E GROPPEj ST BONIFACE CATHOLIC CHURCH V(22 WEST CLARK ST KILi.! j,,' yaiF. ACTIONS INSPIRE ME DEEPLY I HAVE RECENTLY C 0,NTEND£0-TKAT- '*E IM THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE MUST FIND A MIODLF GROUND BETWEEN RIOTS AND SENTIMENTAL AND TIMID SUPPLICATIOrjS FOR JUSTICE THIS .tANS ESCALATING NONVlCLErCE EVEK TO THE SCALE OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE F !\£CESSARY WHAT YOU A.NO YOUR COURAGEOUS ASSOCIATES ARE DOING IN MILWAUKEE KILL CERTAINLY SERVE AS A KINO OF MASSIVE NONVIOLENCE THAT i(E NEEO IN THIS TURBULENT .°ERIOD YOU ARE DEMONSTRATING THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO BE MILITANT AND POWERFl.!. WITHOUT. DESTROY ING QFE OR PROPERTY PLEASE KNOW THAT YOU HAVE MY SUPPORT AND MY fRAYERS YOU ARE MOVING IN THE GREAT TRADITION BY THOSE WHO #tE lilILLING TO STAND UP F CR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE AND YOO ARE MOTIVATED BY A DEEP COMMITMENT TO CHRISTIANITY MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS IN ALL OF YOUR CREATIVE AND COURAGEOUS ENDEAVORS MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ^^^"^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ouHesyTt the author The supportive telegram sent by Martin Luther King Jr. to Father Groppi, September 4, 1967. Court. But this time, County Judge Christ Seraphim set Father Groppi's bail at $1000, calling Groppi a 'repeater,' and asserting his belief that "the public has a right to be protected from a repeater. You have to deal with crime as you would with a disease. You have to isolate it."^^ National news media rushed to cover the Milwaukee demonstrations following these mass arrests. Thus the Milwaukee Open Housing Move¬ ment entered a third phase, that of a national movement. The NAACP immediately dispatched reinforcements to Mil¬ waukee, including regional field director Sydney Finley, who was arrested with Father Groppi the next night, and regional youth director William Hardy. National Youth Director Mark Rosen- man arrived the following day. The NAACP also put out a call to its other branches to join the Milwaukee Youth Council in marching the next weekend. As a result, the march September 10, 1967, drew over 5,000 supporters of fair housing, the largest march to date in Milwaukee.^^ Sam Dennis, an agent with the U.S. Department of Justice, was also with Father Groppi the night of the rally at the burned out Freedom House.^^ Letters of support came from longtime civil rights activists, including the Rev. Kelly Miller Smith, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee, whose church was a headquarters for the students who initiated the lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville and who later became the founders of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King sent a telegram that included these words of support: "What you and your courageous associates 36 www.wisconsinhistory.org ^> |