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Phillips & Phillips

Apr 18, 2018

Phillips, first African-American judge in Wisconsin, dies (UPDATE)

Vel Phillips, a civil rights pioneer who helped lead open housing marches in Milwaukee in the 1960s and was the first black person elected to a Wisconsin statewide office, has died. She was 94.

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