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Bobby Tanzilo, author of The Milwaukee Police Station Bomb of 1917

Start: 12/07/2010 7:00 pm

In his new book, Milwaukee's Bobby Tanzilo focuses on an incident in 1917 when, on a chilly September day, the patriotic, pro-protestant preaching of an Italian immigrant pastor, August Giuliani, ignited a riot in Bay View. Two months later, in an apparent act of retaliation, someone placed a bomb in Giuliani's Third Ward church. When a parishioner took it to the Central Police Station, it detonated, killing nine policemen and a civilian. The subsequent trial of the Bay View Italians attracted national attention--Clarence Darrow and Emma Goldman were involved in the case. Find out how the bombing and trial effected the ethnic, religious, and economic tensions that were brewing in Milwaukee in the early part of last century from Bobby Tanzilo at this free event.