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.
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.
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.