Join award-winning local historian Reggie Jackson\, author of the upcoming book \;Midwest Nice Apartheid\, for a 5-part series on Milwaukee&rsquo\;s history of segregation and i ts ongoing impact on housing\, education\, and equity. Presented by the Mi lwaukee Public Library and America's Black Holocaust Museum.
\nReggi e is the author of the upcoming book \;Midwest Nice Apartheid: The History and Harms of Segregation in Milwaukee\, \;which \;co vers how segregation policies and practices beginning in the early 1900s l ed to segregated spaces in metro Milwaukee. These policies and practices c reated a two-tier system of homeownership between blacks and whites while forcing blacks to have limited opportunities in terms of where they could live. Their residential spaces were relegated to the oldest housing stock in the city and mostly as renters because they could not acquire a mortgag e from most banks while living in a redlined part of the city. This segreg ation limited educational and employment opportunities. Eventually black p eople saw that the segregated schools limited their ability to find upward mobility. By the late 1970s the manufacturing jobs that brought black peo ple to Milwaukee started to go away creating high levels of unemployment a nd pockets of concentrated poverty that impacts their social determinants of health. The challenges we see in the black community today are a direct result of the past discrimination they faced in housing.
\nReggie J ackson is a U.S. Navy veteran\, and internationally renowned expert on rac e relations\, the 2021 winner of the Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award from the National Education Association and the Association for the Study of A frican American Life and History\, has conducted seminars at over a dozen college campuses around the state of Wisconsin while traveling to over fif ty communities conducting lectures\, workshops and facilitated dialogue se ssions on American history. He is the winner of over twenty awards for his work as a journalist and activist supporting closer race relations within multiple communities throughout the state and served as Head Griot (oral historian) at America&rsquo\;s Black Holocaust Museum for two decades. Reg gie is the proté\;gé\; of the museum&rsquo\;s founder Dr. Jame s Cameron\, and the author of the forthcoming book Midwest Nice Apartheid: The History and Harms of Segregation in Milwaukee. Reggie&rsquo\;s approa ch to U.S. history is what he calls parallel journeys in history\, recogni zing that Americans of all backgrounds have shared histories that emphasiz e our commonalities instead of differences.
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