Author: Staff

Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson presented veteran Anna Mae Robertson with a proclamation on March 4 at the Tabernacle Community Baptist Church, in celebration of her military career and civilian accomplishments in advance of her 98th Birthday on March 5. Pastor Donna Childs joined with the Robertson family and the public to honor Robertson’s service. Robertson had been a member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion in 1943, the only African American Women’s Army Corps to serve overseas during World War II. Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson declared Saturday, March 5 to be “Anna Mae Robertson Day” throughout the entire...

The Wisconsin National Guard traces its history to the days before Wisconsin had achieved statehood. Just as Wisconsin evolved and developed over the following decades, so did the Wisconsin National Guard as it transformed into something quite different from its humble origins. Henry Dodge, governor of what was then the Wisconsin Territory — a swath of land consisting of all of current Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, along with roughly two-thirds of North Dakota and one-third of South Dakota — commissioned Morgan L. Martin of Green Bay as a captain and the commander of the Green Bay Rangers, a volunteer...

Louis Hughes was born 190 years ago in 1832, to a White plantation owner and Black slave in Charlottesville, Virginia. Thirty-three years after gaining his freedom at the end of the Civil War, he wrote a memoir about being a slave and became the first African American author published in Milwaukee. His memoir, Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (The institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter), provided extensive information about the complex relationships between slaves and masters, along with graphic accounts of the physical abuse slaves endured. Hughes...