Vel Phillips, the Wisconsin civil rights activist who died Tuesday at age 94, was confronted with the kind of housing discrimination she would later fight tenaciously when she moved to Madison to attend law school in the early 1950s.
Vel Phillips, the Wisconsin civil rights activist who died Tuesday at age 94, was confronted with the kind of housing discrimination she would later fight tenaciously when she moved to Madison to attend law school in the early 1950s.