Milwaukee alderman Vel Phillips right is greeted
Velvalea Rodgers "Vel" Phillips, one of Milwaukee's pioneering civil rights icons, has passed away.
Officials made the announcement and held a moment of silence during Tuesday night's MPS school board meeting. In 1978, she was the first woman and first African American to be elected as Wisconsin's secretary of state. She was Milwaukee's first female judge, as well as Wisconsin's first African American judge.
Phillips, a leader of the open housing marches in Milwaukee in the 1960s and the first black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin law school, was in hospice care at Mequon hospital, according to her son, Michael Phillips, The Associated Press reported. She sponsored legislation to outlaw racial discrimination in city housing ordinances during her time on the Milwaukee Common Council. "You have to do your best to be your best when the cameras aren't rolling", he said.
"She cheered me on through every victory in my life & taught me to always keep the faith", Moore wrote on Twitter.
"If I had it to do over again, I think I would have appreciated having a close relationship with three presidents: LBJ, JFK and Jimmy Carter", she said. And I believe Ms. Phillips showed us all that change can be achieved through quiet persistence and unwavering integrity.
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Democratic candidates for governor, Mahlon Mitchell and Matt Flynn, also praised the work of Phillips in statements issued upon her passing.
"Wisconsin has lost a beloved, iconic, tenacious trailblazer whose leadership and career of firsts in our state opened doors through which so many African Americans, Democrats and women are proud to have followed", said Democratic Party of Wisconsin chair Martha Laning.
In 2015, Wisconsin Public Television produced a documentary about Phillips' awesome life, titled, "Vel Phillips: Dream Big Dreams", ensuring her life and legacy will live on forever.
In 1971, Phillips left her role as "Madam Alderman" when she was appointed to the Milwaukee County Judiciary.
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