April 10, 1968

After 200 days of marching, demonstrations, mass meetings, picketing, boycotting, lobbying aldermen to support Alderman Vel Phillips' fair housing ordinance, and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a federal fair housing bill was passed by Congress on April 10, 1968.

April 13, 1968, “Federal Open Housing Bill Passed,” Milwaukee Courier, Public Library Microfilm Collection, Microfilmed by the Wisconsin Historical Society.