A woman struggles with police on the second night of unrest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the summer of 1967, Bettmann Archive/Getty Images.
”The Milwaukee Youth Council of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP), led by Father James Groppi, had marched at the homes of judges who maintained memberships in the Fraternal Order of Eagles, which had a “whites only” membership policy” (“March on Milwaukee”).
“In 1962, Alderman Vel R. Phillips, the first African American and the first woman elected to the city of Milwaukee Common Council, was also the first to introduce an open housing ordinance” (“March on Milwaukee”).
Both James Groppi (hailed as a “Black God”) and Vel R. Phillips led their communities in attempting to further African-American rights. The NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. They marched at the homes of judges to tell them to do what is right (give them the rights they are asking for), and to tell the government to do their job (give the people the rights they deserve) and protect the American people, no matter the color of their skin.