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Milwaukee PBS Specials

Milwaukee PBS Specials are local public television programs presented by WMVS/WMVT Milwaukee.

Milwaukee's Migrant Families

28m 15s

They came seeking the promise of a better life; escape from racial violence, better jobs, higher wages, and better educational opportunities. Milwaukee and Wisconsin began to feel the shift in the 1940s. Just before WWII, Milwaukee’s Black population totaled about 1.5 percent. By 1950 that number had increased to 3.5 per cent, approximately 22,000 people.

  • People of the Port: A Jones Island Documentary: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    People of the Port: A Jones Island Documentary

    S3 E2 - 28m 7s

    The story of Jones Island.

    Few places in any American city have packed so many layers of change into such a small area. Jones Island is practically an open book that tells, on a miniature scale, the story of our entire region, but it is also a richly human story. From the cultural struggles of the early Indians to the catastrophic flooding of Capt. Jones shipyard.

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    America's Dairyland: at the Crossroads

    S3 E13 - 54m 46s

    An hour-long documentary that takes a deeper look at the continuing crisis and the future for farmers, businesses and communities who rely on the dairy industry to survive.

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