No mob? No riot? What really happened when North Platte forced Black residents to flee
In 1929 a group of local men visited every Black household in North Platte, telling people to get out of town by 3 p.m.
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African American History
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Flashback Friday: NAACP Youth Council’s Peaceful Swimming Pool Protest Deemed “hysteria” in 1963 Omaha
A number of people at the Peony Park pool in Omaha in 1930. The pool was not de-segregated until 1963.
Simone Manuel made history at the 2016 Summer ...
Marker Monday: DeWitty – An African American Settlement in the Sandhills
Spread out along the North Loup River west of here, DeWitty, later known as Audacious, was the largest and longest-lasting African American settlement in rural ...
Rev. Russel Taylor and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1920s Omaha.
There are certain names we instantly recognize as those who passionately loved and strove for equality. Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Susan B. Anthony and ...
Flashback Friday: Omaha’s Bus Boycott of 1952-54
Years before the famous Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott of 1955-56, a group of Omahans led a bus boycott of their own. In this case, the target was the Omaha and ...
Triumphs and Troubles: The Early History of the NAACP in Nebraska, 1918-1940
By Breanna Fanta, Editorial Assistant
In a period of intense racial discrimination, groups like the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of ...
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