Omaha’s Lillie Williams became a professional bicycle racer in 1889
Starting in the high-wheel bicycle era, Lillie Williams of Omaha became a multi-sport professional athlete at a time when women’s sports were widely regarded as improper ...
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What We Found
The Girls of Company Z
An 1890s Omaha photo shows three young women dressed in what look like men’s military cadet uniforms. It was frowned upon for women to be dressed in such a manner, so ...
Women Serve on a Frontier County, Nebraska, Jury for the First Time in 1966
Frontier County, Nebraska, disallowed female jurors until 1962 and did not empanel its first female jurors until 1966.
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Found at an Estate Sale: A Trophy from the Year Nebraska Banned Girls’ Basketball Tournaments
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Jim Brogden was browsing an estate sale in Acworth, Georgia, when he noticed this beautiful trophy. It tells a story not only of ...
For career woman in 1930, “home’s still home”
"I honestly believe there is no sound reason why women should not be in business," Miss Loretta Larsen told the Omaha Bee-News in 1930. Larsen appeared in ...
When the women of Wahoo’s JFK College took on the Chinese national basketball team, 1973
By David L. Bristow
May 24, 2023
Fifty years ago the women’s basketball team of tiny John F. Kennedy College in Wahoo traveled to China for a series ...
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