Good morning.
It’s a lovely day ahead for the Whippet City – sunny with a high of eighty-one.
On this day in 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano exploded, leaving just under sixty people dead or missing.
On this day in 1964, as the Wisconsin Historical Society recounts,
1964 – Milwaukee Students Participate[d] in First School Boycott
On this date, the 10th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, students from Milwaukee schools participated in the first boycott of the city’s public schools, a critical moment in civil rights and desegration movements in Wisconsin. Two months earlier, in March 1964, the NAACP, CORE, and other civil rights organizations formed MUSIC — the Milwaukee United School Integration Committee. Its purpose was to implement mass action to highlight the issue of educational inequality. For two years, sit-ins, picketing, prayer vigils, marches, and boycotts had raised public awareness about segregation but failed to move the school board to action. In December of 1965, Wisconsin civil rights activist and attorney Lloyd Barbee filed a formal desegregation suit in federal court on behalf of 41 black and white children, eventually decided in their favor in 1976. [Source: Rethinking Schools].
Something of ancient medicine from Google’s daily puzzle: “Ancient Greek and Roman physicians treated patients with electrical shocks generated by a particular fish. Up to how many volts can it produce?”