By Stuart Stotts
Father Groppi Marched to alter Milwaukee
"Father Groppi: Marching for Civil Rights" tells the tale of dad James Groppi, a Catholic priest from Milwaukee, Wis., who stood up for civil rights within the Nineteen Sixties and 1970s.
This vital new addition to the Badger Biographies sequence for younger readers additionally tells a few turbulent time in Wisconsin background and sheds gentle at the civil rights move and its position within the North.
Growing up at the south part of Milwaukee because the son of Italian immigrants, younger James Groppi discovered early on what it felt prefer to be made enjoyable of simply because of who you're, and he discovered to appreciate humans from different races and ethnic teams. Later, whereas learning to turn into a clergyman, he observed the discrimination African american citizens confronted. It made him offended, and he vowed to do no matter what he may possibly to struggle racism.
Father Groppi marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and different leaders of the civil rights move. yet he knew there has been paintings to be performed in his personal urban. In Milwaukee, he teamed up with the NAACP and different corporations, protesting discrimination and segregation anywhere they observed it. It wasn't constantly effortless, and Father Groppi and the opposite civil rights staff confronted nice challenges.
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