Risking Everything: More Information, Sources & Contributors

Other related ABHM virtual exhibits:

• Jim Crow Returns: The Voting Rights Act Gutted Today!
• ‘This Is Our Selma’: NC’s Fight for Voting Rights
• Voting Rights for Blacks and Poor Whites in the Jim Crow South
• Bernard Lafayette: An Unsung Veteran of the Voting Rights Struggle
• Locked Out: Millions of Voters Are Disenfranchised Ahead of Midterm Elections
• Remembering James Chaney, Voting Rights Hero and Martyr
• Who Gets to Vote? Teaching About the Struggle for Voting Rights in the United States
• American Experience
• The Mississippi Summer Project
• Mississippi Justice
• Freedom Summer
• Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 97, number 4, summer 2014 2
• Tracy Sugarman Drawings
• Protest Songs.
• Barbee, Lloyd A. (1925-2002).
• SNCC & Grassroots Organizing: A Black Power Roundtable Discussion
• SNCC & Voting Rights Toolkit
• Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)
• SNCC & Grassroots Organizing Discussion Series

Women’s role in freedom summer:

• Between Two Worlds: Black Women and the Fight for Voting Rights

• Black women’s suffrage

• Reconstructing the Vote

Freedom Schools in Milwaukee:

• Freedom Schools
• Race and Education: The Integration of Milwaukee Public Schools, 1960s-1980s
• Freedom Day (May 18, 1964)
• Milwaukee School Boycott, May 18, 1964
• “Say What You Really Believe”: Freedom Schools, Youth Empowerment, and Black Power in 1960s Milwaukee
• Amos et al. v. Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee, 408 F. Supp. 765 (1976)

Voting Rights Roundtable Discussion:

SNCC and Voting Rights Roundtable Discussion - Prairie View A&M University

Contributors to Risking Everyting: The Fight for Black Voting Rights

Scholar Griot, Adamali De La Cruz is the Education and Griot Coordinator at America’s Black Holocaust Museum. She is a graduate of Marquette University's History department with a focus on medieval studies. She joined ABHM as a Griot/Center for Urban Research and Teaching Outreach (CURTO) Intern in 2022 and formally joined the ABHM Ed. Dept in 2023. As the Education and Griot Coordinator, Adamali has developed the Junior Griot Program for high school students, coordinates with volunteers, has assisted in formalizing the college internship program at ABHM, and writing of virtual exhibits and other public history projects that ABHM contributes to. 

Scholar Griot, Mia Phifer is the Senior Education, Collections, & Outreach Coordinator at America’s Black Holocaust Museum. She is a trained Public Historian who earned her M.A. in History at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, along with certificates in Museum Studies and Nonprofit Management. Her expertise is in historical research & writing, collections management, curriculum development, advocacy, and educational programming. At ABHM, Mia designs and implements ABHM’s educational programs, manages the museum’s collections and archives, and initiates and sustains ongoing partnerships and collaborations locally and nationally.

Editor, Dr. Robert S. Smith is the Harry G. John Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Urban Research, Teaching & Outreach at Marquette University. He serves as ABHM’s Director of Education and Resident Historian. His research and teaching interests include African American history, civil rights history, and exploring the intersections of race and law. Dr. Smith is the author of Black Liberation from Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter and Race, Labor & Civil Rights; Griggs v. Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity. Prior to joining Marquette University, Dr. Smith served as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Inclusion & Engagement and Director of the Cultures & Communities Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. And, Rob is the proud father of Henderson Marcellus Smith.

Web & Graphic Designer, Anthony Ferraro has demonstrated success in developing, producing, and marketing a unique blend of independent and corporate projects. He continually pushes boundaries to achieve extraordinary results and expand market share for his clients. He began his career advocating for the "individual voice" by helping establish a media company that showcased literary and artistic expression. During his nine years at Time Warner, he provided award-winning creative direction, producing advertising for print, web, and television. He has since established a small agency to develop marketing collateral and media content for small businesses, startups, non-profits, and creative ventures. His ambition is to use his creative talents and marketing experience to enrich the community through positive initiatives.

This virtual exhibit is a collaborative effort between staff of America’s Black Holocaust Museum, the Wisconsin Black Historical Society & Museum, the Milwaukee County Historical Society, and the Wisconsin Historical Society. It coincided with the Freedom Summer exhibit that was on display at ABHM in the fall of 2024, the screening of the PBS’ Freedom Summer documentary, the ABHM Book Club, and with Museum Voter Registration Week(s).