Hate Crimes in Wisconsin: An Introduction
Wisconsin has long been a leader in hate crime prevention. In the late 1980s, Wisconsin passed a state-level hate crimes law–one of the first to protect lesbian and gay citizens. A few years later, a Wisconsin case led the Supreme Court to determine that it was fair to increase the penalty for a crime if it was motivated by hate.
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Read more about the United We Stand initiative: https://unitedwestand.gov/
Read more about hate crimes laws here: https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/09/07/hate-crime-laws-timeline
Read more about hate crimes in Wisconsin: https://www.justice.gov/file/1440701/download
Read more about increasing hate crimes in Wisconsin here: https://www.wpr.org/justice/fbi-wisconsin-hate-crimes-increase-2021-data

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Stand Up to Hate
A Mission for Wisconsin
Stand Up to Hate draws on real stories from across Wisconsin to educate Wisconsites about hate and hate crimes in our state. Wisconsin Humanities believes that stories and history have the power to to help people better understand their own communities and imagine possibilities for progress and change.
This project was spearheaded by Community Powered with UW-Extension’s division of Positive Youth Development and We Are Many-United Against Hate. It was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities’ United We Stand: Connecting Through Culture initiative.
