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    Asante Sana, ‘Thank You’ Father James E. Groppi
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    Asante Sana, ‘Thank You’ Father James E. Groppi

    By Shirley R. (Berry) Butler-Derge

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    Forty years ago, thousands of Milwaukee residents marched for equal rights to join and participate in local organizations, receive equal and appropriate educational resources for their children, and live where they wanted. Thus, the purpose of the book, Asante Sana, Thank You Father James E. Groppi is to commemorate and honor the Father James E. Groppi and the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council/Commandos who unselfishly put their lives on line and made a significant difference in making Milwaukees history one that changed the livelihood for all living beings. Specifically, in the book: Asante Sana, Thank You Father James E. Groppi, the author, who was one of the original founders of the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council in 1964, poetically responds to some of the famous quotes of Father Groppi and the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council members while they experienced life- threatening issues with racial discrimination in Milwaukee during the 1960s. (Asante Sana, Thank You Father James E. Groppi by Dr. Shirley R. (Berry) Butler-Derge (2010).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateDec 11, 2013
    ISBN9781426948749
    Asante Sana, ‘Thank You’ Father James E. Groppi
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    Shirley R. (Berry) Butler-Derge

    During her twenty-five successful years as a teacher, author, lecturer, and publisher, the author has received the following awards: Most Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award from the Wisconsin-Bell/ Ameritech, Most Outstanding High School Teacher of the Year Award from Metropolitan Milwaukee Alliance of Black School Educators (MMABSE), and the Black Excellence Award for Teaching from the Milwaukee Times and Channel 6. With her warm personality and great sense of humor, the author has the ability to tap into her students’ inner gifts and instill in them a lifelong passion for learning. She has written numerous innovative curriculum textbooks as well as urban classroom plays and ethnic poetry books. She has a BA in Education from The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, MA in Exceptional Education from The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Doctorate Degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Sarasota and a founder and principal of an urban private high school, The Nzingha Institute of Creative Learning for Living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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      Asante Sana, ‘Thank You’ Father James E. Groppi - Shirley R. (Berry) Butler-Derge

      © Copyright 2012 Shirley R. (Berry) Butler-Derge, Ph.D.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      0-9717545-3-5 FIRST EDITION

      Cover design courtesy of Wisconsin Historical Society Museum #ID 5295 1968

      Cover Photograph, Father James Groppi singing with Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council Members on the steps of St. Boniface Church in 1968. From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Journal Sentinel Inc., reproduced with permission, Wisconsin Historical Society #ID 5295.

      Author’s photograph by Fayemi D. Jackson

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Dr. Shirley (Berry) Butler-Derge

      ISBN: 978-1-4269-4872-5 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4269-4874-9 (e)

      ISBN: 978-1-4269-4873-2 (hc)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2010941116

      Trafford rev. 10/24/2012

      11604.png www.trafford.com

      North America & international

      toll-free: 1 888 232 4444 (USA & Canada)

      phone: 250 383 6864 ♦ fax: 812 355 4082

      CONTENTS

      Dedication

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      My Little Sister: Glenda Butler

      My Muddear: Making M.U.S.I.C.

      Father Groppi: My Journey

      Police: Watching Little Me

      Commandos: The Name

      Eagle’s Club: Patty Wagon

      Aunt Elizabeth: St. Boniface Cook

      WANTED: Have You Seen this Man?

      Gathering of the Bread

      Let the Church Say, AMEN!

      Grup The Change Maker

      Human Angels

      Black Leaders

      Nigger Lover

      Borders

      Camping Seeds

      Black Web

      This & That: St. Boniface Fall Festival (1960)

      A Chosen Child

      High School: No Vacation

      My Muddear Spoke liked an Angel to Me

      Milwaukee: Downtown Jail House Blues

      Mayor Meier’s Office

      Alderwoman Vel Phillips

      Standing still

      H. Rap Brown and Stokley Carmichael

      Marchers: 13th Walnut

      Southside

      Unchristian: Father Groppi

      Do You Miss the Civil Rights Movement?

      Bertha-Mae Whoppi and Me

      Heroes Through Whose Eyes?

      Duwayne Tollivier: Commando

      Bus Ride: Conversation

      War: What’s That All About?

      Questions: Is That Bus Safe?

      One Mind: Marching Spirit

      Death: Only When

      You Is A Hoodlum

      …And We Keep Coming…..

      Mr. Dick Gregory

      Protest: Not A Riot

      Is You Skared Yet?

      Sexual Prowess: Reverse

      ‘Grup’

      That’s Not My Jesus!

      Freedom House: 15th Vliet Street

      Rise-Up Black Leaders

      Struggle: Viet Cong

      Knock Knock: Mr. Death(Philadelphia NAACP Conference – 1968)

      Asante Sana (‘Thank You’) Father Groppi

      An Unnecessary Black University Experience (1970)

      St. Boniface: Selma

      Not Bad: But Mad

      Postpone: Surprise

      Police Please!

      Enemies

      Macho Man Walking

      Poor: Washington D.C.

      Racism: Catholic High School

      Journey: Earth Zone

      No Turning Back

      Specialty School: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

      Black Christmas(1967)

      References

      About the Author

      DEDICATION

      This book is dedicated to the following Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council Members, Commandos and other angels who participated in the Civil Rights/ Open Housing marches during the 1960’s.  

      Attorney Lloyd A. Barbee

      Vada Bass

      James Beckley

      Raymond Bladders

      Carol Carmen Butler

      Columbus Boston

      Dennis Boyd

      Kenneth Bowen

      Cleavlin Bryant

      Cecil Brown Jr.

      Elizabeth Campbell

      Rev. Leo Champion

      Odean Childs

      William Coffey

      Brenda M. Coggs

      Rose Marie Coggs

      Isaac Coggs

      Marsha Coggs

      Velma L. Coggs

      Thurston Coleman

      Allen Crawford

      Lawrence Friend

      Marion Red Glass

      Lawrence Gantt

      Father James E. Groppi

      Merlyn Morehouse Hansen

      Webster Harris

      LaVada Harris

      Charles Harper

      Ester Hazelwood

      James Hazelwood

      Joe Hazelwood

      Joe Holloman

      Edward Jamerson

      Cheryl Jean-Jeter Johnson

      Earl Johnson

      Walter Jones

      Jimmy Johnson

      Rev. Albert Kelly Sr.

      Sullivan King

      Rev. Richard Kirkendoll

      Hilda Larkey

      Rev. R.L. Lathan

      Milton Lanzing

      Earl Lewis

      Carol Thomas-Malone

      Lee McGee Jr.

      Lee McGee Sr.

      Eugene Pierce

      James Pierce

      Donald Reed

      David Rodgers

      Ida Mae Royalty

      Addie Mae Sargent

      Rev. Lamont Sherman

      Dalow Stingley

      Robert Stingley

      Clarence Smith

      Claretta Simpson

      Ivory Thornton

      Ruby Toon

      Duwayne Toliver

      William Turner

      AC Turner

      Jessie Wade

      John Ware

      Carol Willis

      Early Wilson

      Cynthia Wigley

      Bettie Lou Woods

      Tommy Lee Woods

      Sylvester Williams

      Howard Wright

      Estelle Yarbrough

      Lucile Woodards

      *Special Thank you Honorable Vel R. Phillips

      Compiled and read at the 40th Celebration of the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council- March-On-Milwaukee (MOM) at the 16th street Bridge on September 29 2007.

      By Fred Reed, Commando

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      Minnie Butler-McClain, my mother who taught me to Never bow my head in shame for being an African Native American female. K.C. Butler, my father who was unable to march due to his bad feet but always made the best coffee and tea for the marchers. Father James E. Groppi, Grop, adviser and founder of the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council, who told me that my black skin, nappy hair, and wide thick lips were physical gifts from God. Professor Margaret Peggy, widow of famous Father James E. Groppi, thanks for writing my first recommendation for Upward Bound at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, including me in your play, March on Milwaukee and for being an outstanding role model. Carole Carmen Butler, my sister, who held my hand when we were lost at the age of five and for encouraging me to write, Mary Childs-Arms, my best friend who was arrested with me on the 100th day for fair/open housing protest march, Lee Mc Ghee Jr. for being my big brother at St. Boniface grade school and helping me create freedom songs during the marches, Tommy Lee Woods, Red Glass, Duwayne Tollvier, Lawrence Friend and my sweet heart, Dennis Boyd, thanks for protecting me during the Poor People Campaign at Washington D.C., Aunt Elizabeth Campbell, Ida Mae Royalty, Mother Miller, and Estelle Yarbrough, thanks for your watchful eyes, motherly wisdom and all the bologna and cheese sandwiches after the marches. Sullivan & Jean Williams, thanks for the comfort of your car after a long cold march in the freezing rain, scorching heat and unbearable winter walks. Finally, Annie Evers, Charlene Evers, Fred Evers, Helen Evers, Lawrence Butler, Glenda Butler, Barbara Butler, Betty Martin-Harris, Vada Harris, Barbara & Jenny Davis, Pamela Sergeant, Angie Gray-Ward, The Harris sisters- Roberta, Claudetta, Lou-Lou and Wanda, Jimmy Harris, and Kenneth and Joyce McGhee, thank you all for uplifting our motto, neither snow nor rain nor heat or gloom of the justice path stopped us from marching for a just cause.

      INTRODUCTION

      Forty years ago, thousands of Milwaukee residents marched for equal rights to join and participate in local organizations, receive equal and appropriate educational resources for their children, and live where they wanted. Thus, the purpose of the book, Asante Sana, ‘Thank You’ Father James Groppi is to commemorate and honor Father James E. Groppi and the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council/Commandos who unselfishly put their lives on line and made a significant difference in making Milwaukee’s history one that changed the livelihood for all living beings.

      Specifically, in the book: Asante Sana, ‘Thank You’ Father James Groppi, the author, who was one of the original founders of the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council in 1964, poetically responds to some of the famous quotes of Father Groppi and the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council members while they encountered challenging issues with racial discrimination (i.e., St. Boniface Church/School: Marching/Rallies, Integration/Segregation, Eagles’ Club, Integration/Segregation in the Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC), Segregation of Milwaukee Public Schools, Honorable Vel Phillips, Dick Gregory, Freedom Schools, Freedom House, Washington D.C. Poor People Campaign, Black Christmas, Kosciusko Park, Open Housing Marching, 16th Street Viaduct) and hate letters and/or comments received during the 1960’s in Milwaukee.

      From this book, the author wishes that all

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