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Midwest Nice Apartheid with Reggie Jackson

Presented by MPL and ABHM

2025-06-28 12:00:00 2025-06-28 14:00:00 America/Chicago Midwest Nice Apartheid with Reggie Jackson Join award-winning local historian Reggie Jackson, author of "Midwest Nice Apartheid," for a series on Milwaukee's history of segregation and its ongoing impact on housing, education, and equity. Tippecanoe Branch - Community Room, Gift of Heather Hurley

Saturday, June 28
12:00pm - 2:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-06-28 12:00:00 2025-06-28 14:00:00 America/Chicago Midwest Nice Apartheid with Reggie Jackson Join award-winning local historian Reggie Jackson, author of "Midwest Nice Apartheid," for a series on Milwaukee's history of segregation and its ongoing impact on housing, education, and equity. Tippecanoe Branch - Community Room, Gift of Heather Hurley

Tippecanoe Branch

Community Room, Gift of Heather Hurley

Join award-winning local historian Reggie Jackson, author of "Midwest Nice Apartheid," for a series on Milwaukee's history of segregation and its ongoing impact on housing, education, and equity.

Join award-winning local historian Reggie Jackson, author of the upcoming book Midwest Nice Apartheid, for a 5-part series on Milwaukee’s history of segregation and its ongoing impact on housing, education, and equity. Presented by the Milwaukee Public Library and America's Black Holocaust Museum.

Reggie is the author of the upcoming book Midwest Nice Apartheid: The History and Harms of Segregation in Milwaukee, which covers how segregation policies and practices beginning in the early 1900s led to segregated spaces in metro Milwaukee. These policies and practices created a two-tier system of homeownership between blacks and whites while forcing blacks to have limited opportunities in terms of where they could live. Their residential spaces were relegated to the oldest housing stock in the city and mostly as renters because they could not acquire a mortgage from most banks while living in a redlined part of the city. This segregation limited educational and employment opportunities. Eventually black people saw that the segregated schools limited their ability to find upward mobility. By the late 1970s the manufacturing jobs that brought black people to Milwaukee started to go away creating high levels of unemployment and pockets of concentrated poverty that impacts their social determinants of health. The challenges we see in the black community today are a direct result of the past discrimination they faced in housing.

Reggie Jackson is a U.S. Navy veteran, and internationally renowned expert on race relations, the 2021 winner of the Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award from the National Education Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, has conducted seminars at over a dozen college campuses around the state of Wisconsin while traveling to over fifty communities conducting lectures, workshops and facilitated dialogue sessions on American history. He is the winner of over twenty awards for his work as a journalist and activist supporting closer race relations within multiple communities throughout the state and served as Head Griot (oral historian) at America’s Black Holocaust Museum for two decades. Reggie is the protégé of the museum’s founder Dr. James Cameron, and the author of the forthcoming book Midwest Nice Apartheid: The History and Harms of Segregation in Milwaukee. Reggie’s approach to U.S. history is what he calls parallel journeys in history, recognizing that Americans of all backgrounds have shared histories that emphasize our commonalities instead of differences.

AGE GROUP: | Older Adults | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Special Events | History & Genealogy | Author Event |

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Tippecanoe Branch

Phone: 414-286-3000
Branch manager
Brett Rohlwing

Hours

Today's hours

We're open 10:00AM to 6:00PM

Mon, Jun 02 12:00PM to 8:00PM
Tue, Jun 03 12:00PM to 8:00PM
Wed, Jun 04 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Thu, Jun 05 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Fri, Jun 06 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, Jun 07 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Jun 08 1:00PM to 5:00PM

Upcoming Events

Cancelled
Thu, Jun 05, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Join us in a weekly walking exploration of the historic neighborhood surrounding the Tippecanoe Branch Library. Get some gentle exercise and make new friends!

Sat, Jun 07, 10:30am - 11:30am
Community Room, Gift of Heather Hurley
It's Pride Month! Inspired by the picture book Pride Puppy! by Robin Stevenson, let's explore the letters of the alphabet that make up our lives and create colorful banners celebrating ourselves.

Tue, Jun 10, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Other - See description for location
Do you have a question about your smartphone, tablet, or other electronic device? Need help accessing library resources? We can help!

Tue, Jun 10, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Community Room, Gift of Heather Hurley
All ages are invited to sign-up for the 2025 Summer Reading Program while enjoying ice cream!

Wed, Jun 11, 10:45am - 11:15am
Outdoor (East Lawn)
Young children and their caregivers are invited to story time filled with fun stories, songs, and finger plays.

Wed, Jun 11, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Community Room, Gift of Heather Hurley
In this engaging and interactive workshop, participants will be creating many drawings through games and unexpected prompts lead by author and illustrator Rachal Duggan. All skill levels are welcome.

Thu, Jun 12, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Other - See description for location
Join us in a weekly walking exploration of the historic neighborhood surrounding the Tippecanoe Branch Library. Get some gentle exercise and make new friends!

Thu, Jun 12, 4:45pm - 5:45pm
Community Room, Gift of Heather Hurley
Bring your projects for a monthly social fiber arts get-together! All experience levels encouraged. We welcome knitting, crochet, tatting, sewing, mending or other fiber-related projects.

Fri, Jun 13, 10:30am - 11:30am
Community Room, Gift of Heather Hurley
Babies, toddlers, and preschoolers are invited to drop-in and play with sensory toys and activities. Recommended for children 6 months to 5 years old with a caregiver.

Tue, Jun 17, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Community Room Tabling Area
Milwaukee Health Department staff will share resources to help keep your children healthy and safe.

Tue, Jun 17, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Community Room, Gift of Heather Hurley
Don't let the kids have all the fun! Join us for adult skill level craft projects and create something you can proudly display in your home. Projects change monthly. Registration recommended.

Tue, Jun 17, 6:15pm - 6:45pm
Secret Garden, Gift of Barbara Stein
Families are invited to a 30-minute story time filled with stories, songs, and movement all designed to help young children develop important literacy skills needed prior to learning how to read.

Wed, Jun 18, 10:45am - 11:15am
Outdoor (East Lawn)
Young children and their caregivers are invited to story time filled with fun stories, songs, and finger plays.

Mon, Jun 23, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Community Room, Gift of Heather Hurley
Calling all history buffs, History Buff Book Club is here! Please join us for a monthly non-fiction, history related book discussion.

Tue, Jun 24, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Other - See description for location
Do you have a question about your smartphone, tablet, or other electronic device? Need help accessing library resources? We can help!

Tue, Jun 24, 6:15pm - 6:45pm
Secret Garden, Gift of Barbara Stein
Families are invited to a 30-minute story time filled with stories, songs, and movement all designed to help young children develop important literacy skills needed prior to learning how to read.

Wed, Jun 25, 10:45am - 11:15am
Outdoor (East Lawn)
Young children and their caregivers are invited to story time filled with fun stories, songs, and finger plays.

Wed, Jun 25, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Community Room, Gift of Heather Hurley
Snack and craft while using our supplies to make buttons from comics, magazines, or even a photo from your phone! Tell your friends!

Thu, Jun 26, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Other - See description for location
Join us in a weekly walking exploration of the historic neighborhood surrounding the Tippecanoe Branch Library. Get some gentle exercise and make new friends!

Thu, Jun 26, 2:00pm - 2:45pm
Community Room, Gift of Heather Hurley
Kick up your heels to the fiddlin' good music of Fox & Branch at this family-friendly concert!

Thu, Jun 26, 4:45pm - 5:45pm
Community Room, Gift of Heather Hurley
Beat the heat and have some fun this summer with a friendly game of BINGO! All ages welcome and prizes awarded as supplies last.

Fri, Jun 27, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Other - See description for location
Employ Milwaukee will be at the library to share information about employment opportunities, paid training programs, and much more.

Sat, Jun 28, 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Community Room, Gift of Heather Hurley
Join award-winning local historian Reggie Jackson, author of "Midwest Nice Apartheid," for a series on Milwaukee's history of segregation and its ongoing impact on housing, education, and equity.

Tue, Jul 01, 6:15pm - 6:45pm
Secret Garden, Gift of Barbara Stein
Families are invited to a 30-minute story time filled with stories, songs, and movement all designed to help young children develop important literacy skills needed prior to learning how to read.

Wed, Jul 02, 10:45am - 11:15am
Outdoor (East Lawn)
Young children and their caregivers are invited to story time filled with fun stories, songs, and finger plays.

Thu, Jul 03, 10:30am - 11:30am
Community Room, Gift of Heather Hurley
Yoga focused on low-impact standing and chair-assisted poses

Thu, Jul 03, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Other - See description for location
Join us in a weekly walking exploration of the historic neighborhood surrounding the Tippecanoe Branch Library. Get some gentle exercise and make new friends!

Thu, Jul 03, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Community Room, Gift of Heather Hurley
This series of absolute basics is intended for newcomers to technology. No prior experience is needed, just an eagerness to learn.