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Letter From The Editor
As you open this issue, you may, like me, be waiting to see the first stubborn signs of spring: the crocus, early daffodil, or skunk cabbage. Like these early spring ephemerals, each of the articles in our Spring issue has in common an individual or
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Obreros Unidos
The following selection is from Obreros Unidos: The Roots and Legacy of the Farmworkers Movement, which will be released this summer by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. As a young man, Jesus Salas and others led a historic march from Wautoma t
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Stronger Than Law
On Friday, July 10, 1840, William Maxwell walked into H. J. Morrison’s store at the southeast corner of Main and Second Streets in Platteville, Wisconsin Territory, and purchased a pair of pants and a bar of soap. Maxwell, a Black man, worked as a le

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