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African American Resources at History Nebraska
AFRICAN AMERICAN RESOURCES AT HISTORY NEBRASKA History Nebraska 1500 R Street Lincoln, NE 68510 Tel: (402) 471-4751 Fax: (402) 471-8922 Internet: https://history.nebraska.gov/ E-mail: [email protected] ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS RG5440: ADAMS-DOUGLASS-VANDERZEE-MCWILLIAMS FAMILIES. Papers relating to Alice Cox Adams, former slave and adopted sister of Frederick Douglass, and to her descendants: the Adams, McWilliams and related families. Includes correspondence between Alice Adams and Frederick Douglass [copies only]; Alice's autobiographical writings; family correspondence and photographs, reminiscences, genealogies, general family history materials, and clippings. The collection also contains a significant collection of the writings of Ruth Elizabeth Vanderzee McWilliams, and Vanderzee family materials. That the Vanderzees were talented and artistic people is well demonstrated by the collected prose, poetry, music, and artwork of various family members. RG2301: AFRICAN AMERICANS. A collection of miscellaneous photographs of and relating to African Americans in Nebraska. [photographs only] RG4250: AMARANTHUS GRAND CHAPTER OF NEBRASKA EASTERN STAR (OMAHA, NEB.). The Order of the Eastern Star (OES) is the women's auxiliary of the Order of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Founded on Oct. 15, 1921, the Amaranthus Grand Chapter is affiliated particularly with Prince Hall Masonry, the African American arm of Freemasonry, and has judicial, legislative and executive power over subordinate chapters in Omaha, Lincoln, Hastings, Grand Island, Alliance and South Sioux City. The collection consists of both Grand Chapter records and subordinate chapter records. The Grand Chapter materials include correspondence, financial records, minutes, annual addresses, organizational histories, constitutions and bylaws, and transcripts of oral history interviews with five Chapter members. -
The Omaha Gospel Complex in Historical Perspective
University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Great Plains Quarterly Great Plains Studies, Center for Summer 2000 The Omaha Gospel Complex In Historical Perspective Tom Jack College of Saint Mary Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly Part of the Other International and Area Studies Commons Jack, Tom, "The Omaha Gospel Complex In Historical Perspective" (2000). Great Plains Quarterly. 2155. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/2155 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Great Plains Studies, Center for at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Great Plains Quarterly by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. THE OMAHA GOSPEL COMPLEX IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE TOM]ACK In this article, I document the introduction the music's practitioners, an examination of and development of gospel music within the this genre at the local level will shed insight African-American Christian community of into the development and dissemination of Omaha, Nebraska. The 116 predominantly gospel music on the broader national scale. black congregations in Omaha represent Following an introduction to the gospel twenty-five percent of the churches in a city genre, the character of sacred music in where African-Americans comprise thirteen Omaha's African-American Christian insti percent of the overall population.l Within tutions prior to the appearance of gospel will these institutions the gospel music genre has be examined. Next, the city's male quartet been and continues to be a dynamic reflection practice will be considered. Factors that fa of African-American spiritual values and aes cilitated the adoption of gospel by "main thetic sensibilities. -
Lincoln Journal Story on Mildred Brown in 1989
1 “Black-owned paper Thriving after 50 years” Lincoln Journal story on Mildred Brown in 1989 Courtesy of History Nebraska 2 Courtesy of History Nebraska 3 LINCOLN NE, JOURNAL NEBRASKA (page) 31 Mildred Brown runs Omaha Star Black-owned paper thriving after 50 years (Column 1) OMAHA (AP) – An Omaha weekly newspaper founded in 1938 is the country’s longest-operating, black-owned newspaper run by a woman, the newspaper’s founder and publisher said. A pastor in Sioux City, Iowa, first encouraged Mildred Brown more than 50 years ago to start a newspaper geared towards blacks. The ReV. D.H. Harris said, “ ‘Daughter, God told me to tell you to start a paper for these people and bring to them joy and happiness and respect.’ I looked at him and laughed until I cried,” said Brown, of the Omaha Star. The Star is Omaha’s only black-owned newspaper. It first hit the streets on July 9, 1938, with 6,000 copies costing a dime apiece. “It really bothered me,” Brown said of Harris’ adVice. “Then I thought, ‘I’m a young buck. I haVe a car. Every place I went they gave me an ad. I can do it.’ ” The former English teacher had honed her newspaper and ad-selling skills at a Sioux City paper called the Silent Messenger. Moving to Omaha and launching the Star, she said, was a thumbs- up proposition. No front seat By then Brown could run a newspaper, but couldn’t take a front seat on the streetcar or eat at any restaurant she chose. -
Omaha, Nebraska, Experienced Urban Uprisings the Safeway and Skaggs in 1966, 1968, and 1969
Nebraska National Guardsmen confront protestors at 24th and Maple Streets in Omaha, July 5, 1966. NSHS RG2467-23 82 • NEBRASKA history THEN THE BURNINGS BEGAN Omaha’s Urban Revolts and the Meaning of Political Violence BY ASHLEY M. HOWARD S UMMER 2017 • 83 “ The Negro in the Midwest feels injustice and discrimination no 1 less painfully because he is a thousand miles from Harlem.” DAVID L. LAWRENCE Introduction National in scope, the commission’s findings n August 2014 many Americans were alarmed offered a groundbreaking mea culpa—albeit one by scenes of fire and destruction following the that reiterated what many black citizens already Ideath of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. knew: despite progressive federal initiatives and Despite the prevalence of violence in American local agitation, long-standing injustices remained history, the protest in this Midwestern suburb numerous and present in every black community. took many by surprise. Several factors had rocked In the aftermath of the Ferguson uprisings, news Americans into a naïve slumber, including the outlets, researchers, and the Justice Department election of the country’s first black president, a arrived at a similar conclusion: Our nation has seemingly genial “don’t-rock-the-boat” Midwestern continued to move towards “two societies, one attitude, and a deep belief that racism was long black, one white—separate and unequal.”3 over. The Ferguson uprising shook many citizens, To understand the complexity of urban white and black, wide awake. uprisings, both then and now, careful attention Nearly fifty years prior, while the streets of must be paid to local incidents and their root Detroit’s black enclave still glowed red from five causes. -
Durham Gets “In Focus” Ortraits Are, Literally and Figuratively, Reflections of Ourselves, and the Memorable Ones Have a Psimple, Yet Profound Universal Appeal
OMAHA’S HOME TO HISTORY “The Enemy Within” Explores Terror on American Soil any American citizens either don’t remember or don’t know that September 11th was not the first Mtime Americans were threatened on their own soil. Americans have known and dealt with acts of terror since the founding days of the Republic and will continue to face those challenges in years ahead. Reminding Americans of this fact is the Durham Western Heritage Museum’s latest exhibit, The Enemy Within: Terror in America - 1776 to Today - a creation of Washington D.C.’s International Spy Museum™. From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terrorism, The Enemy Within provides unprecedented perspective into terror on American soil. Uncovering the forgotten stories of domestic terrorists, foreign agents, militant radicals, and saboteurs who have threatened America’s sense of security, the exhibit explores key questions: How do we identify who the enemy is? And how do we keep America safe without compromising the civil liberties upon which it was founded? Organized by Evergreen Exhibitions, The Enemy Within is divided into nine major themes: the country’s first hundred years, anarchist violence, labor movements, the Ku Klux Klan, world wars, communism, political violence, social violence, and security changes in a post-9/11 world. Each themed environment allows viewers to witness first-hand the terror and reactions of the government and public with the help of interactive displays, guest polling, artifacts, historical photos and film footage, video displays, and a timeline covering 170 acts of terror in America. The Enemy Within: Terror in America - 1776 to Today will be on display at the Durham Western Heritage Museum from September 8, 2007, to January 6, 2008. -
On the Front Lines for Racial Equality
WWCREIGHTONINDOWINDOW UNIVERSITY ■ WINTER 1995-96 FatherFather Markoe:Markoe: Our ‘Champagne A Life Glass’ Economy on the Don’t Play TV Front Lines Trivia With Her for Racial Finding God in Equality Your Daily Life LETTERS WINDOW Magazine edits Letters to the INDOW Editor, primarily to conform to space W■ ■ limitations. Personally signed letters Volume 12/Number 2 Creighton University Winter 1995-96 are given preference for publication. Our FAX number is: (402) 280-2549. E-Mail to: [email protected] Fr. Markoe’s Battle Against Racism ‘And If the Rules Change?’ Bob Reilly tells you about a man who I have read with interest the article “The was a lifelong fighter. Fr. Markoe Social Roots of Our Environmental found a cause for his fighting ener- Predicament” by Dr. Harper in your Fall gy. The word portrait of a strong- 1995 issue of WINDOW. minded Jesuit begins on Page 3. I would like to pose a question for Dr. Harper. In this third human environmental The Rich Get Richer, revolution, supposing we were to discov- er an inexhaustible source of energy. I The Poor Get Poorer am assuming that the laws of supply and Gerard Stockhausen, S.J., talks about what he calls “our cham- demand would eventually lead it to be at pagne-glass economy.” In this case, it doesn’t mean champagne an inconsequential cost. for everyone; it means the shape of our economy that puts the What would that do to the human liv- rich at the broad top of the glass and the poor at the narrow ing conditions in the world? bottom. -
Visitors Guide
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TYRANNOSAURS ARE INVADING OMAHA… and They Brought the Whole Family! PAGE 4 RAILROAD DAYS PAGE 12 ROOT BEER FLOAT DAY PAGE 12
TYRANNOSAURS ARE INVADING OMAHA… and they brought the whole family! PAGE 4 RAILROAD DAYS PAGE 12 ROOT BEER FLOAT DAY PAGE 12 Omaha Skyline Photo Provided by Visit Omaha SUMMER/FALL 2019 Contents 3 Letter from the Executive Director 4 Tyrannosaurs: Meet the Family Exhibit 8 Current Exhibits 9 A Look Ahead 12 Upcoming Events and Tours 14 Upcoming Lectures 14 From the Curator 15 Summer Camp 17 Volunteers 18 Development Corner 19 Calendar of Events Admission Adults $11 Seniors (62+) $8 Children (3-12) $7 Members and children 2 & under are FREE Hours Sunday: 1-5PM Monday: 10AM-5PM, June-August and December only Tuesday: 10AM-8PM Wednesday – Saturday: 10AM-5PM Closed Major Holidays Address 801 South 10th Street Omaha, Nebraska 68108 Contact 402-444-5071 DurhamMuseum.org [email protected] Smithsonian Aliate Letter from the We’re in for a really…really big summer! executive director In 2013, the museum had the great pleasure of welcoming the largest Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever discovered. SUE from Chicago’s Field Museum was more than 40 feet long and 13 feet tall at the hip. What made this T.rex even more special was the fact that it was nearly 90 percent complete, giving scientists a rare opportunity to more deeply study the biomechanics, movement and intellect of the “king of the tyrant lizards.” But wait…there’s a new man (or perhaps woman since we can’t really tell) on campus and in the words of University of Alberta paleontologist Scott Persons, it’s the “rex of all rexes.” Its name is Scotty and at an estimated 20,000 pounds, I guess you could say that it’s got some girth. -
Douglas County [RG230].Pdf
RG230 DOUGLAS COUNTY: Inventory of Collection SUBGROUP ONE DOUGLAS COUNTY SURVEYOR/ENGINEER, 1857-1915 MICROFILM, Reference Room, NSHS SERIES ONE THRU SERIES EIGHT Field Notebooks, 9 page boxes Surveyor’s Resolutions, 26 reels Surveyor’s Misc. Resolutions, 13 reels Topographical, Ownership, and Sectional Plans, 4 reels Plats and Blueprints, 22 reels Plats, 116 reels Land Plats, 13 reels Misc. Plats, 25 reels Miscellany, including road and bridge records, 18 reels SG1, SERIES ONE LAND PLAT BOOKS Roll #1, Book #1, T14-16N, Ranges 9E-13E Roll #2, Book #1, T14, R9E, Section 1 thru R16N, R9E, Sections 1-6, 8-17, 22-27, 34-36 Roll #3, Book #2, T14N, R10E, Sections 1 thru 12 T14N, R11E, Sections 1 thru 12 Roll #4, Book #3, T14N, R12E, Sections 1 thru 12 T14N, R13E, Sections 1 thru 11 Roll #5, Book #4, T15N, R10E, Sections 1 thru 36 T15N, R10E, Sections 10 thru Waterloo Roll #6, Book #5, T15N, R11E, Sections 1 thru 36 Roll #7, Book #6, T15N, R12E, Sections 1 thru 36 Roll #8, Book #7, T15N, R13E, Sections 1 thru 19 Roll #9, Book #8, T15N, R13E, Section 20 (West Omaha) thru T16N, R13E, Section 36 T15N, R13E, Section 35 (Riverview Park) T15N, R14E, Sections 6 & 7 T16N, R14E, Section 31 Roll #10, Book #9, T16N, R10E, Sections 1 thru 36 (included Elkhorn River) Roll #11, Book #10, T16N, R11E, Sections 1 thru 36 Roll #12, Book #11, T16N, R12E, Sections 1 thru 36 Roll #13, Book #12, T16N, R13E, Sections 2 thru 36 1 SG 1, SERIES TWO LAND PLATS, QUARTER SECTIONS Roll #14, NW, S1, T14N, R10E thru SE, S12, T14N, R10E Roll #15, NW, S1, T14N, R11E thru SE, S12, T14N, R11E Roll #16, NW, S1, T14N, R11E thru SE, S12, T14N, R12E Roll #17, NW, S2, T14N, R13E thru SW, S11, T14N, R13E Roll #18, NW, S1, T15, R9E thru SE, S23, T15N, R10E Roll #19, NW, S24, T15N, R10E thru SE, S12, T15N, R11E Roll #20, NW, S13, T15N, R11E thru SE, S36, T15N, R11E Roll #21, NW, S1, T15N, R12E thru SE, S16, T15N, R12E Roll #22, NW, S18, T15N, R13E thru SE, S36, T15N, R13E Roll #23, NW. -
Finding Aid to the Historymakers ® Video Oral History with Marguerita Le Etta Washington
Finding Aid to The HistoryMakers ® Video Oral History with Marguerita Le Etta Washington Overview of the Collection Repository: The HistoryMakers®1900 S. Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60616 [email protected] www.thehistorymakers.com Creator: Washington, Marguerita LeEtta Title: The HistoryMakers® Video Oral History Interview with Marguerita Le Etta Washington, Dates: October 5, 2007 Bulk Dates: 2007 Physical 5 Betacame SP videocasettes (1:59:27). Description: Abstract: Newspaper publishing chief executive Marguerita Le Etta Washington (1948 - ) was the publisher of the Omaha Star, the only African American newspaper in Nebraska. Washington was interviewed by The HistoryMakers® on October 5, 2007, in Omaha, Nebraska. This collection is comprised of the original video footage of the interview. Identification: A2007_280 Language: The interview and records are in English. Biographical Note by The HistoryMakers® Omaha Star publisher Marguerita Le Etta Washington was born on August 16, 1948 to Anna Le Brown and attorney Edmund Duke Washington. Washington’s maternal great grandfather, the richest man in Bessemer, Alabama, left his fortune to his black daughter, her grandmother. The white relatives resolved the matter by burning down the Bessemer courthouse. Washington’s aunt, Mildred Brown, founded Omaha, Nebraska’s Omaha Star in 1938. Washington graduated from Kansas’ Lincoln High School in 1964, at the age of sixteen. Afterwards, she briefly attended Lincoln University in Jefferson City. She then went on to attend the University of Nebraska at Omaha where she earned her B.A. degree in sociology and elementary education. While earning her M.A. degree in administration and special education, Washington began teaching in the Omaha public schools. -
A History of the Episcopal Church in Omaha from 1856 to 1964
University of Nebraska at Omaha DigitalCommons@UNO Student Work 1-1-1965 A history of the Episcopal Church in Omaha from 1856 to 1964 James M. Robbins Jr University of Nebraska at Omaha Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/studentwork Recommended Citation Robbins, James M. Jr, "A history of the Episcopal Church in Omaha from 1856 to 1964" (1965). Student Work. 580. https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/studentwork/580 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in Student Work by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UNO. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A HISTORY OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN OMAHA FROM 1856 TO 1964 A Thesis Presented to the Department of History and the Faculty of the College of Graduate Studies University of Omaha In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts fey James M. Robbins, Jr. January, 1965 UMI Number: EP73218 Alt rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. UMI Dissertation Publishing UMI EP73218 Published by ProQuest LLC (2015). Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code uest ProQuest LLC. -
Union Pacific Railroad Subgroup 8 - Office of the Secretary
RG3761.AM: Union Pacific Railroad Subgroup 8 - Office of the Secretary Series 1 Incoming Correspondence Box 294-333 1869 (Rollins)-1879 (McFarland) Box 334-373 1880-1888 (Previously SG11) Box 374-382 1889-1893 (Previously SG10) Box 383-391 1893-1898 (Previously beginning of SG8 S.1) Series 2 Outgoing Correspondence Vol. 1-74 1868 (Hammond and Rollins)-1898 (Millar) Note: vols. 1-3 previously SG10, S.2, vols. 1-3 vols. 4-48 previously SG11, S.2, vols. 1-45 vols. 49-74 previously SG11, S.2 vols. 46-58 and Millar, vols. 4-11 (at one time SG10) and Millar vols. 1-5. Series 3 Correspondence Registers (Incoming and Outgoing) Vol. 1-4 1888-1898 (Millar) Series 1 - Incoming Correspondence Box 294 1869 f.0 Original UP Index, Jun. 1869-Feb. 1870 f.1 Abbott, Downing & Co.; Buggies, Concord, NH Ames, Oliver; Pres. UPRR, 1868-71 see Central Pacific RR f.2 Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., Manchester, NH f.3 Andrews, Sidney (1835-80); News Correspondent f.4 Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Co. f.5 Babcock, H. B. regarding patent car chair f.6 Bay State Iron Co. (J. H. Reed & Co.) f.7 Bogert & White, NY regarding Bonds-U.S. Currency 6% Bonds-General Correspondence see Ham, B. F.; Painter, U.H.; U.S. Treasury Dept. Bonds-Subsidy (Ogden to Promontory) see listings CPRR Bonds-U.S. Currency 6% see Bogert & White; Cooke (Jay) & Co.; First National, Carbondale; U.S. Treasury Dept. f.8 Bradley, Osgood; Cars, Worchester, MA f.9 Briggs, J. R. Washington, D.C. regarding Congressional Documents RG3761.AM: Union Pacific Railroad Subgroup 8 - Office of the Secretary f.10 Burrows, H.