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Crowdfunded African American Sandhills Settlement Marker Dedication will be April 11, 2016

African Americans | historical markers | Sandhills
St. James A.ME. Church at DeWitty, Nebraska. History Nebraska RG2301-1-3   Nebraska’s longest-lasting African American rural settlement will receive a state ...
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The historical roots of the George Floyd protests in Nebraska

African Americans
By David L. Bristow, Editor (Originally posted June 2, 2020) Someday a historian will write a Nebraska History article examining the George Floyd protests in ...
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The symbols and secret codes of a 1922 KKK membership medallion

African Americans | Ku Klux Klan | Medallion | Nativism | Racism
This pocket piece in History Nebraska’s collection served as a kind of membership card for admittance to Klan meetings. .It demonstrates how the KKK used symbolism and ...
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1976: Omaha’s Court-Ordered Integration (Part One)

African Americans | Omaha
The Omaha Public School District was forced to face its racial imbalance and produced an integration plan that would reassign students to new schools and bus routes. ...
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1976: Omaha’s Court-Ordered Integration (Part Two)

African Americans | Omaha
In an earlier post we looked at how a 1975 court order addressed Omaha Public Schools’ racial imbalance by requiring the reassignment of students to new schools and bus ...
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How ‘Equality Before the Law’ became our state motto

African Americans | Statehood | voting
By David L. Bristow, Editor Did you know that we got our state motto due to a post-Civil War controversy over Black voting rights? In another post, we looked ...
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Journey to Freedom – Celia and Eliza Grayson’s escape from Nebraska slavery

African Americans | Nebraska Territory | Slavery
Editor's note: Below is the first part of "Journey to Freedom from Nebraska Territory," from the Summer 2022 issue of Nebraska History Magazine. Read the complete ...
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