Green Bay Packers win Super Bowl I, January 15, 1967. It’s a bit of a stretch date-wise, but we couldn’t talk about 1966 in Wisconsin and leave out the Packers! In January 1967, the Green Bay Packers, led by head coach Vince Lombardi, capped off a stellar 1966 season by beating the Kansas City Chiefs in the first-ever AFL-NFL World Championship Game, later known as the Super Bowl. via: Turning Points in Wisconsin History, Wisconsin Historical Society
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Green Bay Packers win Super Bowl I, January 15, 1967.

It’s a bit of a stretch date-wise, but we couldn’t talk about 1966 in Wisconsin and leave out the Packers! In January 1967, the Green Bay Packers, led by head coach Vince Lombardi, capped off a stellar 1966 season by beating the Kansas City Chiefs in the first-ever AFL-NFL World Championship Game, later known as the Super Bowl.

via: Turning Points in Wisconsin History, Wisconsin Historical Society

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Hess Cooperage makes its last oak barrels, Madison, 1966. The Frank J. Hess and Sons Cooperage, one of the longest-lived wooden barrel manufacturers in the United States, was established on Madison’s east side in 1904. Hess made barrels for the Fauerbach brewery and other breweries and wineries in Wisconsin and beyond. This barrel, one of the last produced by the cooperage, is signed by the five Hess descendants who carried on the family business until 1966.  via: Historic Blooming Grove Historical Society by way of Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database see more: Photographs of the barrel-making process at the Hess Cooperage, 1954, from the Wisconsin Historical Society
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Hess Cooperage makes its last oak barrels, Madison, 1966.

The Frank J. Hess and Sons Cooperage, one of the longest-lived wooden barrel manufacturers in the United States, was established on Madison’s east side in 1904. Hess made barrels for the Fauerbach brewery and other breweries and wineries in Wisconsin and beyond. This barrel, one of the last produced by the cooperage, is signed by the five Hess descendants who carried on the family business until 1966. 

via: Historic Blooming Grove Historical Society by way of Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database

see more: Photographs of the barrel-making process at the Hess Cooperage, 1954, from the Wisconsin Historical Society

Source: content.wisconsinhistory.org

Obreros Unidos march from Wautoma to Madison, August 1966. On August 15, 1966, 24 migrant workers on Wisconsin farms began an 80-mile march from Wautoma to the state capitol building in Madison to petition lawmakers to hold farms and food industry corporations accountable for better conditions for migrant workers. The marchers, members of the Obreros Unidos (United Workers) migrant farm-worker labor union, were led by 22-year-old Jesus Salas, pictured here at left. The march inspired a number of further labor actions by migrant workers in Wisconsin, including a 1967 strike in Neshkoro, a 1969 walkout in Cambria, and a statewide grape boycott in support of California laborers. Photograph by David Giffey. via: Wisconsin Historical Images WHi-92280 read more: Jesus Salas and David Giffey, “Struggle for Justice,” Wisconsin Labor History Society (1998)
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Obreros Unidos march from Wautoma to Madison, August 1966.

On August 15, 1966, 24 migrant workers on Wisconsin farms began an 80-mile march from Wautoma to the state capitol building in Madison to petition lawmakers to hold farms and food industry corporations accountable for better conditions for migrant workers. The marchers, members of the Obreros Unidos (United Workers) migrant farm-worker labor union, were led by 22-year-old Jesus Salas, pictured here at left. The march inspired a number of further labor actions by migrant workers in Wisconsin, including a 1967 strike in Neshkoro, a 1969 walkout in Cambria, and a statewide grape boycott in support of California laborers. Photograph by David Giffey.

via: Wisconsin Historical Images WHi-92280

read more: Jesus Salas and David Giffey, “Struggle for Justice,” Wisconsin Labor History Society (1998)

Source: wisconsinhistory.org

Sit-in at Peterson Building, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1966. On May 16, 1966, more than 200 UW students staged a sit-in to protest the university’s endorsement of and facilitation of tests conducted by the draft board, and by extension, the support of the war in Vietnam. As Matthew Levin puts it in his 2009 dissertation, “The Sixties and the Cold War University,” the sit-in at the Peterson Building was a pivotal event in the protest movement at UW-Madison: The draft sit-in is not the most remembered of the protests that took place at the University of Wisconsin in the sixties, perhaps because it ended peacefully, but even as it has been overshadowed by events such as the 1967 Dow Chemical Company protests, the 1969 Black Strike, and the 1970 bombing of Sterling Hall, it sits in many ways at the center of sixties history. It represents the strength of what came to be known as the New Left in Madison, a strength that made the University of Wisconsin a leader of student activism in the sixties, and it was both a culmination of the many threads that had been developing since the end of World War II and a marker of a new era. via: UW-Madison Archives by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
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Sit-in at Peterson Building, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1966.

On May 16, 1966, more than 200 UW students staged a sit-in to protest the university’s endorsement of and facilitation of tests conducted by the draft board, and by extension, the support of the war in Vietnam.

As Matthew Levin puts it in his 2009 dissertation, “The Sixties and the Cold War University,” the sit-in at the Peterson Building was a pivotal event in the protest movement at UW-Madison:

The draft sit-in is not the most remembered of the protests that took place at the University of Wisconsin in the sixties, perhaps because it ended peacefully, but even as it has been overshadowed by events such as the 1967 Dow Chemical Company protests, the 1969 Black Strike, and the 1970 bombing of Sterling Hall, it sits in many ways at the center of sixties history. It represents the strength of what came to be known as the New Left in Madison, a strength that made the University of Wisconsin a leader of student activism in the sixties, and it was both a culmination of the many threads that had been developing since the end of World War II and a marker of a new era.

via: UW-Madison Archives by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

Source: digital.library.wisc.edu

NAACP Youth Council demonstration at the Eagles Club, Milwaukee, September 1966. We’re trying a new approach with this week’s theme—highlighting events from a single year in history. The year of the week is 1966, a turbulent year of grassroots political actions in Wisconsin and across the nation. For several months in 1966, the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council, along with advisor Father James Groppi, picketed the Fraternal Order of Eagles, an exclusively white social club. Eagles Club membership included many prominent Milwaukee judges and other city officials. The news media largely ignored the protesters until the NAACP Youth Council moved from picketing the Eagles Club itself to picketing the homes of individual judges. The Eagles Club demonstrations were part of a decade-long struggle for civil rights in Milwaukee in which community members waged protests, boycotts, and legislative battles against segregation and discrimination in housing and schools. Photo by Robert Miller for the Milwaukee Journal, September 28, 1966. via: Historic Photo Collection, Milwaukee Public Library learn more: March on Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project, UW-Milwaukee Libraries
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NAACP Youth Council demonstration at the Eagles Club, Milwaukee, September 1966.

We’re trying a new approach with this week’s theme—highlighting events from a single year in history. The year of the week is 1966, a turbulent year of grassroots political actions in Wisconsin and across the nation.

For several months in 1966, the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council, along with advisor Father James Groppi, picketed the Fraternal Order of Eagles, an exclusively white social club. Eagles Club membership included many prominent Milwaukee judges and other city officials. The news media largely ignored the protesters until the NAACP Youth Council moved from picketing the Eagles Club itself to picketing the homes of individual judges. The Eagles Club demonstrations were part of a decade-long struggle for civil rights in Milwaukee in which community members waged protests, boycotts, and legislative battles against segregation and discrimination in housing and schools. Photo by Robert Miller for the Milwaukee Journal, September 28, 1966.

via: Historic Photo Collection, Milwaukee Public Library

learn more: March on Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project, UW-Milwaukee Libraries

Source: content.mpl.org

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