USA: FATHER GROPPI AND DICK GREGORY CALL FOR ANOTHER OPEN-HOUSING MARCH IN MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN

Record ID: 1082300

  • Title: USA: FATHER GROPPI AND DICK GREGORY CALL FOR ANOTHER OPEN-HOUSING MARCH IN MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
  • Date: 3rd September 1967
  • Summary: Interviews with Father James Groppi and Deik Gregory. Initials al NO SHOTLIST Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 17th September 1967 13:00
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  • Location: MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, USA
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA5XQL7XF3POYHE7ULH24JGO72S
  • Story Text:Father James Groppi and comedian Dick Gregory sagin called for a march of Milwaukee through the all-white south side section of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Saturday (2 Sept).

    Both Father Groppi and Dick Gregory announced resumption of open housing marches through the all-white South Side of Milwaukee. Gregory, a negro comedian who has suspended his stage career to lead civil rights campaigns said "They were testing whether the feet of police can get as tired as the ??? they used to beat the negro marchers." In the subsequent march more than a thousand marchers participated. It was the largest, longest march in a week of Milwaukee racial turmoil at the least eventful.
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