Operation Backlot 

Media Sages 2022

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Pat Diggs

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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's lead researcher, Kitonga Alexander, project director, Patricia Diggs (publisher, Bronzeville, A Lifestyle), Arts Wisconsin and an UWM affiliation and a grant from Greater Milwaukee Foundation launches, Milwaukee Bronzeville Histories, a virtual interactive platform of the history, arts and culture of Milwaukee Bronzeville, an African American community in Milwaukee.

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This ongoing digital platform archives and preserves Milwaukee Bronzeville history with oral histories, research database, podcasts, a teaching resource and a self-guided walking tour of the Milwaukee community.

 

The platform launches at Bronzeville Week 2022 with a self guided tour brochure and a History In The Making humanities venue. The platform starts a curriculum and a digital historic research lab providing "good will," amongst all communities.

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Welcome to milwaukeebronzevillehistories.org

Bronzeville Week 2022

More to come

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Contact: patriciadiggamedia@gmail.com