[Music] and finally tonight we pay tribute to Lucille Baran Ry Clark Hollard and Bernice Lindsay joining us to discuss their legacy is a storian Dr Sandra e Jones author of voices of Milwaukee bronzville thank you so much for joining us thank you for having me all right so first off let's talk about Lucille Baran we were talking back stage about the history of activism between uh all three of these women but uh Miss Barian first just talk about what she means to the city Lucille um has a history of activism in the city of Milwaukee um she uh migrated to Milwaukee from Florida in about the 1950s uh and um her whole history here she's contributed a lot to the history of Milwaukee has been fighting for the rights of people fighting for the rights of African-Americans in the city of Milwaukee uh she um worked in the area of housing she worked in the areas of welfare rights uh she was one of the founding members of the uh uh National Alliance against racist and political repression which grew out of the uh national movement to Free Angela Davis uh she was a first African-American woman to run for mayor in the city of Milwaukee back in the day she also ran for Wisconsin State um Treasurer um in I think it was 1990s uh and her whole life has been giving uh to the community that she has loved that is a a pretty profound and uh extensive history so uh happy to learn that but now let's talk about Miss Hollard right uh you know Columbia savings and loan we all know the bank the black bank here in Milwaukee but talk about her activism in the economic sense yes she also migrated to Milwaukee um uh back in the day and uh she and her husband Wilbur were very interested in improving the housing situation for uh black people in the city um they founded the as everybody knows the Colombia um Savings and Loan uh which made it possible for black people to uh purchase houses housing because Banks very much discriminate discriminated against black folks uh back in the day um they are the um Howard Park area in Milwaukee is named after uh already and Wilbur uh haard um they funded the first houses that were built in the area and it was built mainly for Working Class People who worked at Alice uh not Alice tomers um masterlock and AOS Smith um but it really gave African-Americans a chance to create generational wealth that um you know had been lacking uh up to that point and so the the area is named after them and it's a great tribute to their activism and their contribution to the city so we they themes of activism themes of uh housing also themes of migration so uh talk about Miss uh Bernice Lindsay right so Bernice Lindsay is another person who migrated uh from Indiana uh to uh Milwaukee uh and Bernice Lindsay was also very much interested in improving the housing conditions of African-Americans in the city so um she there were a number of projects that she was involved in one was a project around the area of uh Stark um Street and um they bought she and a group of African-Americans bought up some land basically for the taxes that were due on them and sold them to African-Americans who wanted to build houses the project was halted because of things like restrictive covenants but she was successful in creating a housing project uh along 1800 on uh Fourth Street uh and again what that did is it made it possible for black people to buy own their own homes create generational wealth and uh you know live a better life in the city of Milwaukee so we have about a minute left uh what do you want our viewers to know and people to know about the legacies of all these three women if you could sum it up for us they they symbolize what black people do black people do what black people have to do to get ahead you know it's not just protesting but how do we help ourselves uh acquire the things that we deserve you know the the the the wealth the progress and so on uh and they the three of the these women represent that very well Dr Joon such an honor to have you on the show thank you so much for being here on black newo thank you so much for having me [Music]