The past is never really past

Case Study: Our Back Pages

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel resurrects the archives to understand today through the lens of the past

Thousands of marchers honor Martin Luther King Jr. on Wisconsin Ave. four days after King’s assassination. This photo was published on the front page of the Milwaukee Sentinel on April 9, 1968, and appeared in the Journal Sentinel 50 years later in the paper’s yearlong retrospective on the year 1968.

Chris Foran, an assistant entertainment editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, digs into the archives for sections of the paper called the Green Sheet and Our Back…