During the 60's, the civil rights movement came to Milwaukee resulting in the fair housing riots and further protests lead by Father Groppi and others. Many of these protests went down Wisconsin Avenue, right past Calvary Presbyterian church. With this, the neighborhood also changed and no longer was it just a place for rich white people in mansions, but had become a community of many ethnicities and economic divisions. Calvary embraced this and its congregation began to represent the diversity of the surrounding neighborhood. As can be seen in this picture, children of multiple ethnicities can be seen playing bells side by side in Calvary Presbyterian's bell choir in 1962.
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- Source: Presbyterian Magazine, 1990, Calvary Presbyterian Archive, Calvary Presbyterian Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 628 North 10th Street.
- Creator: Thomas Gentine and Kyle Govan