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 ...
Omaha
What We Found
Marker Monday: Before Creighton
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Archaeological evidence shows periodic Native American residence in this general area for some 12,000 years. From the mid-1600s to the early 1700s the ...
Marker Monday: The Bank of Florence
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The Bank of Florence was chartered by the Nebraska Territorial legislature on January 18, 1856. It was located in this substantial building, ...
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 ...
Marker Monday: Ak-Sar-Ben Field and the U.S. Air Mail
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Ak-Sar-Ben Field, whose hangars were located on the southeastern corner of these grounds, was used extensively during the early development of U.S. ...
Harriet S. Brooks, Woman Suffragist
By the time Harriet S. Brooks became a senior founding member of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association, she had been promoting women's right to vote for decades in ...
Marker Monday: Duchesne Academy
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In October 1881, Mother Margaret Dunne and three religious of the Sacred Heart opened a boarding school for girls at a temporary location on Ninth and ...
The St. Paul Church Riot
On the night of March 27, 1895, Elia W. Peattie one of the first female news reporters in Omaha, visited the diverse neighborhood of Sheelytown to report a fire. Located ...
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