McKissick, Clifford, 1949-1967
Biography:
Eighteen-year-old African American sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater shot in the neck and killed by police during a Milwaukee, Wisconsin riot on August 2, 1967. The police claimed that McKissick and three other youths had tried to set fire to a building with Molotov cocktails; McKissick's family and several neighbors claimed, however, that he had been sitting on the front porch when all of a sudden everyone heard gunshots. Everyone, including McKissick, ran. Father James Groppi spoke at McKissick's funeral.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- March on Milwaukee: Civil Rights History Project (Golda Meir Library (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries))
- 3 Anonymous letter, Box 6, Folder 3, 1967 August 5 (Documents)
- 4 Anonymous letter, Box 6, Folder 3, 1967 August 13 (Documents)
- 50 Mayor's Log, 4 August, 1967, Page 38 (Administrative reports)
- 56 Mayor's Log, 5 August, 1967, Page 44 (Administrative reports)
- 60 Mayor's Log, 5 August, 1967, Page 48 (Administrative reports)
- 62 Mayor's Log, 5 August, 1967, Page 50 (Administrative reports)
- 65 Mayor's Log, 6 August, 1967, Page 53 (Administrative reports)
- 66 Mayor's Log, 6 August, 1967, Page 54 (Administrative reports)
- 70 Mayor's Log, 7 August, 1967, Page 58 (Administrative reports)
- 72 Mayor's Log, 7 August, 1967, Page 59-A (Administrative reports)
- 73 Mayor's Log, 7 August, 1967, Page 60 (Administrative reports)
- 75 Mayor's Log, 7 August, 1967, Page 62 (Administrative reports)
- 76 Mayor's Log, 8 August, 1967, Page 63 (Administrative reports)
- Oral History Interview with Mary Arms, July 29, 2007, part II (Audio)
- Oral History Interview with Pam O'Halloran, August 16, 2007, part II (Audio)