Young, Whitney, Jr.
Whitney M. Young, Jr., executive director of the National Urban League through the 1960s, was a leading U.S. civil rights leader during a turbulent era. Young helped ...
Civil Rights
What We Found
Klowns of the Koo Koo Krust
It is well known that the first Nebraska Klavern of the Ku Klux Klan was formed in Omaha in 1921. It is also known that the Klan was claiming as many as 45,000 members ...
African Americans in Nebraska—special issue of Nebraska History Online
Due to the great demand for the Fall/Winter 2010 issue of Nebraska History, we have posted the entire issue on our website.
If you’d rather read the articles on ...
Rev. Russel Taylor and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1920s Omaha.
Rev. Russel Taylor, Omaha Monitor, August 11, 1921.
St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, where Taylor pastored, Omaha Moniter August 11, 1921
Various ...
“We the People: Nebraska Stories of Civil Rights” Video on YouTube
Check out the NSHS’s new video on YouTube!
During the Nebraska History Museum’s "We the People": The Nebraska Viewpoint exhibit, visitors were invited to tell their ...
Telephone Booth Sign
A simple phone booth sign reminds us that racial segregation and discrimination were very real here in Nebraska. Our history includes laws against interracial marriage, ...
Flashback Friday: Then The Burnings Began: Omaha’s Urban Revolts and the Meaning of Political Violence
In August 2014 many Americans were alarmed by the scenes of fire and destruction following the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Despite the prevalence of ...
“A Double Mixture”: Equality and Economy in the Integration of Nebraska Schools, 1858-1883
Most Americans associate the history of school segregation with Southern and urban communities, a physical distance that may create a sense of separation for some ...
The New Negro Movement in Lincoln, Nebraska
The New Negro Movement (NNM)—a term used here as opposed to the commonly used “Harlem Renaissance”—occurred not just in Harlem, and not just in large metropolitan areas. ...
Mildred Brown and the De Porres Club: Collective Activism in Omaha
Precisely at 10 a.m. on June 20, 1952, a stylishly dressed middle-aged black woman named Mildred Brown urged the Omaha City Council to “do all in their power to see that ...
Whitney Young Jr’s Time in Omaha
Before Whitney Young Jr was a nationally known civil rights leader, he was a local leader in the Omaha chapter of the National Urban League.
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“Equality Before the Law”: Thoughts on the Origin of Nebraska’s State Motto
“Equality Before the Law,” Nebraska’s state motto, is unique among the fifty states. Only Wyoming’s motto, “Equal Rights,” expresses a similar idea. Both mottos date ...
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