July 29, 1967

After the Youth Council announced that they would march, some aldermen faced increasing pressure. Alderman Dwyer spoke with the Milwaukee Courier (below), and Alderman Robert Anderson, who had clashed with Father Groppi at a City Council meeting on July 25, tried to stop Father Groppi. "Several days later, Anderson telephoned the office of Archbishop William E. Cousins, demanding that Groppi be sent to Panama. According to news reports, 'Anderson's shouts could be heard throughout the city clerk's and aldermen's offices on the second floor of city hall and drew a crowd of aldermen and other onlookers.' When a reporter from one of the city's radio and TV stations approached Anderson with a microphone, 'the alderman tore it from its cord.'

From Margaret Rozga's "March on Milwaukee," Wisconsin Magazine of History, Volume 90, Number 4, Summer 2007, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/wmh/id/49374/show/49343/rec/6 , p. 33.

“Housing Ord. Increases St. Police Power: Dwyer,” Milwaukee Courier, July 29, 1967. Page 1. Milwaukee Public Library Microfilm Collection, Microfilmed by the Wisconsin Historical Society.