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Thousands of people gathered in Madison on April 24 to protest Gov. Tony Evers’s “Safer at Home” order. Photo courtesy of Channel 3000.

Wisconsinites protest Safer at Home orders

Madeline Fuerstenberg
May 5, 2020

UW-Eau Claire class brings museum exhibit to Selma, Alabama

Kailin Schumacher
July 31, 2018
Vera Booker was 28-years-old the night she checked Jimmie Lee Jackson into the Good Samaritan Hospital in Selma, Alabama. © 2016 Andee Erickson

Civil Conversations: Closing a hole in history

Andee Erickson
April 17, 2018
Students had the opportunity to tour the National Civil Rights Museum on Saturday, March 24, the final day of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claires 10th annual Civil Rights Pilgrimage. Room 306 was the site of Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination on April 4, 1968. © 2018 Taylor Pomasl

Civil Conversations: Day 8, The Leader’s Last Hours

Taylor Pomasl
March 25, 2018
Statues resembling children born into slavery overlook Whitney Plantation from the porch of the slave quarters they once lived in. ©2018 Max Perrenoud

Civil Conversations: Day 5, Whitney Plantation and the Story of Anna

Max Perrenoud
March 23, 2018
Joanne Bland participated in the voting rights marches in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. She led a tour of the city for students on March 20, and encouraged young people to create change. ©2018 Andee Erickson

Civil Conversations: Day 4, Selma and Child Foot Soldiers

Andee Erickson
March 22, 2018
Equal Justice Initiative is a non-profit organization that fights for racial and economic justice, particularly working to end mass incarceration and excessive punishment of children and others in the United States. Students from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire visited the organizations Montgomery, Alabama, office on Monday, March 19. © 2018 Samantha West

Civil Conversations: Day 3, Montgomery and Equal Justice Initiative

Samantha West
March 20, 2018
James Patton marched on Bloody Tuesday when he was a high school student. On that day he witnessed protesters both young and old defend themselves against police and mob brutality.

Civil Conversations: Day 2, Tuscaloosa’s Bloody Tuesday

Erica Jones
March 19, 2018
Charles Person, the youngest Freedom Rider, speaks to a crowd about his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. © 2018 Erica Jones

Civil Conversations: Day 1, Atlanta and a Freedom Rider

Michael St. Ores
March 18, 2018
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