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Friday August 28, 2009
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Guests: Margaret Rozga, Patrick Jones, Peggy Hong, Judy Steininger, Eva Augustin Rumpf, Kelly Byrnes
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Racial Inequality in Milwaukee
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Margaret "Peggy" Rozga, widow of the late civil rights leader James Groppi, and University of Nebraska-Lincoln Patrick Jones discuss Milwaukee's place in civil rights history and the social inequality that persists here today. Margaret Rozga is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha. She was married to the late civil rights leader James Groppi from the time he left the priesthood in 1976 until his death in 1985. Patrick Jones is Assistant Professor of History and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and author of The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee, published by Harvard University Press. Our interview with them first aired in June.

Margaret Rozga continues to be involved in issues of social inequity; she's also published a collection of poems about the fight for open housing. Rozga is leading a workshop on poetry form at Woodland Pattern Book Center tomorrow.


Crows, Gates and White Privilege
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Peggy Hong is a writer and the former poet laureate of Milwaukee and a Lake Effect contributor.


A Little Color
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Lake Effect contributor Judy Steininger is a Professor Emerita at the Milwaukee School of Engineering where she has taught chemistry and literature classes. She currently teaches in the Great Books program.


Reclamation: Memories from a New Orleans Girlhood
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Eva Augustin Rumpf is a former newspaper reporter and journalism instructor who lives in Milwaukee. Her memoir of growing up in 1940s and '50s New Orleans is called Reclamation: Memories from a New Orleans Girlhood, published by Booklocker. Rumpf will talk about New Orleans and her memoir next Tuesday at Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee.


Tanked: Summer Camp in the Recession
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Kelly Byrnes is the spokeswoman and public awareness chair for the American Camp Association of Wisconsin. She's also the director of Camp Eagle Ridge in Mellen, Wisconsin. She joined Stephanie Lecci for our semi-regular "Tanked: Running on Empty" series on the economy.


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