The freedom struggle that occurred in Selma, Alabama is well known to millions of Americans but these struggles didn’t just occur in the South. Patrick D. Jones examines Milwaukee, Wisconsin between 1958-1970 where a civil right’s movement similar to Selma occured. In Milwaukee, also known as The Selma of the North, a freedom march was led by Father James Groppi, a white Catholic priest, to end discrimination. Jones’ also depicts other stories of racial injustice and police brutality that occurred in this city. The Selma of the North’s purpose is to shed light on the Milwaukee’s civil rights movement and bring more attention to the fact that racial struggles occurred in the North as well as the South. The wide array of sources used by
