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 ...
Omaha
What We Found
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 ...
Union Pacific World Premiere in Omaha, 1939
Various Hollywood movies have been filmed at least partly in Nebraska, with a smaller number holding their world premier event in the state. The first was ...
Marker Monday: Buffalo Bill at the Trans-Mississippi & International Expo. & Indian Congress of 1898
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William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody held the first official performance of his Wild West show just half a mile northeast of here on May 19, 1883. Eight ...
Beer and Blood: The Butchers’ Picnic
The South Omaha butchers conceived the idea that it would be fun to stay away and play a practical joke on their Council Bluffs brethren, . . . They sent a defiant ...
Nebraska’s 1898 World’s Fair
By David L. Bristow, Editor
More than 2.6 million people attended the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition. Held from June through October ...
Marker Monday: Central High School
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The first session of Omaha High School, now Central High School, was held on November 10, 1859, in Nebraska's territorial capitol on ...
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