Stay updated with breaking news from Kevin abing. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
We'll have rain showers and possible thunderstorms most of the day.Heavy rain is possible. The high temperature reaches 64.A rainy Weathermaker is pushing in t ....
Third Ward a Window on Milwaukee's Past and Future shepherdexpress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from shepherdexpress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
George Marshall Clark, Milwaukee lynching victim, honored 160 later jsonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jsonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It took Tyrone MackLee Randle Jr., two days to find it. The 28-year-old artist and activist, along with two friends, combed Section 17 in the city’s largest and oldest cemetery looking for the final resting place of George Marshall Clark. In the early morning hours of Sept. 8, 1861, Clark became Milwaukee’s only lynching victim. Clark was hastily buried that day in Forest Home Cemetery, somewhere in Section 17, a grassy knoll now dotted with 200-year-old trees. He was 24 years old, according to cemetery records. That’s where Randle and his friends searched among a patchwork of graves, some marked by weather-beaten headstones, others unmarked, buried beneath the Earth. They made pencil rubbings to trace barely legible inscriptions, to no avail. ....