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Two African Americans newspapers in the city took a decided turn toward cultural nationalism and came to level criticisms towards Fr. Groppi’s leadership in the movement similar to those that had been heard in the nation’s capital. The two factions that the commandos ultimately split was one that continued to advocate a militant “not-violent” approach to social change and another community embraced organizing model linked to federal funding and institutional relationships. Fr. Groppi parted ways with the NAACP Youth Council and Commandos, he was convince that the time had come for the group to function on its own, outside the intense media glare that his unusual presence invariable attracted. The direct action in Milwaukee was decline due to the following opening housing campaign.

For more than three years a white Indian –American priest and a group of young, inner-core African American led a military movement for racial justices in Milwaukee, a movement they understood that to be informed by the Black Power. The wake of Martin luther King’s assassination during the spring of 1968, the Common Council finally relented and passed a citywide open housing ordinance. White citizen and local officials could no longer ignore the experiences, hopes and aspirations of black community.

The Commandos and Fr. Groppi, the NAACP Youth Council suggest that they need for a closer look to examination of local people took the raw materials of this more militant approach to civil rights and applied them to their own circumstances. The black people suggest that it may be much more variegated, contested, and localized than we have assumed in the past. Between the year 1965and 1968 the national attention the “ Selma of the north “ the story was generated has largely fallen from public memory. In 1965 the campaign for voting rights in Selma, Alabama, the campaign of the YC and the commandos against segregated urban education, the Eagles Club’s exclusionary memberships policy, police brutality, was unfair to the housing practices offered no clear moral division, and they  hold forth a tiny redemptive narrative of  American institution overcoming an obvious injustice. [title;Local Black freedom Mountain in American, Auther; Theoharis, Jeanne

 The twentieth century drive for liberation colonial rule was one of the most potent themes. The European nations were unable to maintain the military forces necessary to police their empires, after the World War II colonial subject increase their efforts to free themselves of imperialist control. With the hope to reduce poverty and raise the standard of living to the level enjoy by the more highly developed nations of the world. In India where the earliest revolts against colonial rule took place. The India nation congress, during the world war I came under the influence of the Hindu Mohandas Gandhi [1869-1948].

Mahatma was the name his followers of Gandhi gave him, or great soul, le India’s struggle for independence from, Great Britain. Hinduism was guided by the precepts as well as by the serum on the Mount and the writing of Thoreau and Tolstoy, Gandhi initiated a policy of peaceful protest against colonial oppression. The novelist resistance of his program was including fasting and peaceful demonstrations, from British control only one year before he was assassinated by a Hindu Fanatic who opposes his conciliatory gesture toward India’s Muslim minority. In 1947 the India subcontinent results in an indecent Pakistain. Between the year 1944-1960 many nation, such as: Jordon, Burma, Palestine, Srilanka, Ghana, Malaya, Cyprus, and Nigeria, freed them selves from British rule. In American history the Vietnam War was the longest war, cost about fifty thousand American lives, and around fifteen million Vietnamerse. [Fiero; 428].            

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