Two steps forward, a sidestep and two steps backward. It's getting nowhere. Using documented court cases, newspaper articles, public documents and other research materials, the report offers some insight into discrimination by government, businesses, organizations, institutions and individuals. Zubrensky would like to see it distributed to schools and libraries. She is looking for a publisher for the 89-page report that chronicles the causes and effects of discrimination in employment, education and housing through nearly 165 years in Milwaukee.
Minorities make up the majority.
The city should be doing a lot more. Even Zubrensky, who has seen much since moving to Milwaukee in 1953, was surprised by some of her research. I never knew we had African-Americans in Milwaukee before the Civil War. There is a long, rich history here. I have a limited perspective looking in from the outside.