Civil Rights Movement – Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books

Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Exhibit from the Wisconsin Historical Society

by Lisa Hager
September 7, 2014October 8, 2014

Commons Student Lounge Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Exhibit from the Wisconsin Historical Society tells the story of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project, when CORE and SNCC staff led 900 northern volunteers and thousands of…

Cover of Ellwanger's Strength for the Stuggle

Joseph W. Ellwanger on “Reading: Risk and Reward”

by Lisa Hager
August 15, 2014August 31, 2014

I hope that my book, Strength for the Struggle, will reward readers with a clearer vision of their own life and where it’s going, a clearer vision of our nation’s history and how significant changes…