Thanks for the memories: The Avant Garde, Negative Movement, Milwaukee Organizing Committee, Viet Nam, the Draft, Race Riots, Assassinations, Music, Poetry, Sit-ins, Be-ins, Marches.

In 2010, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee embarked on a long-term, multi-departmental research project focused on the Avant Garde Coffeehouse, a local landmark and center of the folk/blues revival in Wisconsin from 1962 to 1968. There were places like this in other areas, but, in Wisconsin, none as important as the Avant Garde. It presented local […]