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Engineering Music History
On the evening of Friday, October 17, 2003, more than five hundred concertgoers packed into the Todd Wehr Auditorium, a performance space on the campus of the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). They had come to see a series of alternative music
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Stronger Than Law
On Friday, July 10, 1840, William Maxwell walked into H. J. Morrison’s store at the southeast corner of Main and Second Streets in Platteville, Wisconsin Territory, and purchased a pair of pants and a bar of soap. Maxwell, a Black man, worked as a le
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“A Credit to Our City as Well as Our State”
In the fall of 1947, Mary Evelyn Williams and Willie M. Mitchell enrolled in Milwaukee’s Pressley School of Beauty Culture, the only Black beauty school in Wisconsin, which had opened three years prior. After paying their enrollment fees and going to

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