Documentary Drama
Northside YMCA/Performance at Scottish Rite Center
Past Performance at UW-Waukesha
April 2007

MARCH ON MILWAUKEE:      
A Memoir of the
Open Housing Protests

Written by Margaret Rozga
Directed by Mark Lococo

On two weekends in April 2007 (April 13, 14, 15; 20 and 21), Director Mark Lococo of the University of Wisconsin- Waukesha produced March On Milwaukee, a play about the 1967-8 open housing marches written by Peggy Rozga.

This play is based on Rozga’s original interviews with NAACP Youth Council members, most notably Pamela Sargent, Shirley Butler, and Mary Childs Arms, who participated in the open housing marches and who participated in talk-back sessions after performances of the play. History Professor Tim Thering facilitated talk-backs with those participants following two performances of the play, putting the close-up approach of the play in historical perspective.
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The Documentary Drama:
March On Milwaukee:
 A Memoir of the Open Housing Protests
 was performed at 7pm, on Thursday, September 27th to a packed house
 at the Humphrey Scottish Rite Center,
790 N. Van Buren

Written by Margaret Rozga
Directed by Andre L. Ellis

Congratulations to Mario Hall, Andre Ellis and all of the actors!

This performance has kicked off our weekend events to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the open housing marches.