By Art Heitzer and Elizabeth Hoffmann Dr. Mildred Fish Harnack was a Milwaukee native who gave her life in the fight against fascism during World
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When the Working Class Made the News
At its peak, the Milwaukee Leader was the most widely circulated English-language socialist daily in the United States, and was ultimately the longest-lasting socialist paper in the country. Building that reputation meant standing up to power, even at the peril of imprisonment and government censorship.