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History > USA > Civil rights > Activists
Vel Phillips 1923-2018
Ms. Phillips and her husband, Dale, after they learned she had been elected national Democratic committeewoman in 1958.
They had been law students together.
Photograph: Gene Herrick/Associated Press
Vel Phillips, Housing Rights Champion in the ′60s, Is Dead at 95 NYT By RICHARD SANDOMIR APRIL 25, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/
Ms. Phillips, second from left, joined an antiwar protest in Washington in January 1968.
The demonstrators argued that the war was diverting attention from pressing domestic social issues.
Photograph: Associated Press
Vel Phillips, Housing Rights Champion in the ′60s, Is Dead at 95 NYT APRIL 25, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/
Vel Phillips 1923-2018
(born Velvalea Hortense Rodgers)
barrier-breaking African-American lawmaker from Milwaukee who became an influential voice in the national movement for fair housing during the 1960s
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Ms. Phillips — the first African-American to serve on the city’s Common Council and the first woman elected to it — began introducing open-housing bills in 1962, two years after championing civil rights at the Democratic National Convention that nominated Senator John F. Kennedy for president.
The city legislation’s aim was to end practices by landlords and real estate agents that had made it nearly impossible for blacks to find housing beyond Milwaukee’s so-called inner core, a run-down section where nearly all the city’s black population lived.
But she faced repeated opposition from the other members of the council, all of them white and male.
Several times her bills were defeated, 18-1.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/
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