% REPUBLICANS CALLED THE DECISION
% A "WIN FOR FAIR ELECTIONS."
% DEMOCRATS CALLED IT AN "ASSAULT
% ON DEMOCRACY."
% >> IN A SIGN OF AN IDEA WHOSE
% TIME HAS CALL THIS WEEK, THERE
% ARE CALLS TO HONOR ONE OF
% WISCONSIN'S BEST-KNOWN CIVIL
% RIGHTS PIONEERS, JUST WEEKS
% AFTER PROTESTERS TOPPLED A
% REPLICA OF THE "FORWARD" STATUTE
% AND ANOTHER OF HANS CHRISTIAN
% HEG, A NORWEGIAN IMMIGRANT FROM
% WISCONSIN WHO DIED FIGHTING FOR
% THE UNION ARMY IN THE CIVIL WAR.
% THE PROPOSED STATUTE WOULD HONOR
% VEL PHILLIPS.
% SHE DIED TWO YEARS AGO AT THE
% AGE OF 94 AFTER BREAKING RACE
% BARRIERS HER ENTIRE LIFE.
% PHILLIPS WAS THE FIRST BLACK
% WOMAN ELECTED AS WISCONSIN'S
% SECRETARY OF STATE, THE FIRST IN
% THE NATION ELECTED TO STATEWIDE
% OFFICE, THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO
% GRADUATE FROM THE UW LAW SCHOOL
% AND THE FIRST BLACK PERSON
% ELECTED TO MILWAUKEE'S CITY
% COUNCIL AND TO BE A WISCONSIN
% JUDGE.
% TO LEARN MORE ABOUT VEL PHILLIPS
% GO TO PBSWISCONSIN.ORG AND WATCH
% "VEL PHILLIPS: DREAM BIG