Peoples Brewing and African American Entrepreneurship in the Civil Rights Era

John Harry, a graduate student in history at UW-Milwaukee, recently published a scholarly article in Voyageur Magazine about the final years of Peoples Brewing of Oshkosh. In conjunction with his article, Harry is speaking Thursday night (September 12) at Fifth Ward Brewing in Oshkosh. He'll be talking about Theodore Mack, the last president of Peoples, and Mack's role in leading Peoples as a black-owned brewery during the civil-rights era.

I've known John for a while now and can attest that he brings an interesting perspective to this complex story and how it relates to what was happening in our city in the early 1970s. John’s talk begins at 7pm. Hope to see you there!