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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. -
Loyalty, Or Democracyat Home?
WW II: loyalty, or democracy at home? continued from page 8 claimed 275,000 copies sold each week, The "old days," when Abbott 200,000 of its National edition, 75,000 became the first black publisher to of its local edition. Mrs. Robert L. Vann establish national circulation by who said she'd rather be known as soliciting Pullman car porters and din- Robert L. Vann's widow than any other ing car waiters to get his paper out, man's wife reported that the 17 were gone. Once, people had been so various editions of the Pittsburgh V a of anxious about getting the Defender that lW5 Yt POWBCX I IT A CMCK WA KIMo) Courier had circulation 300,000. Pf.Sl5 Jm happened out ACtw mE Other women leaders of they just sent Abbott money in the mail iVl n HtZx&Vif7JWaP rjr prominent the NNPA were Miss Olive . .coins glued to cards with table numerous. syrup. Abbott just dumped all the Diggs was business manager of Anthony money and cards in a big barrel to Overton's Chicago Bee. She was elected separate the syrup and paper from the th& phone? I wbuWfi in 1942 as an executive committee cash. What Abbott sold his readers was w,S,75ods PFKvSi member, while Mrs. Vann was elected an idea catch the first train and come eastern vice president. They were the out of the South. first women to hold elected office in the n New publishers with new ideas were I NNPA. coming to the fore. W.A. -
The Annals of Iowa
The Annals of Volume 73, Number 4 Iowa Fall 2014 A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF HISTORY In This Issue ERIC STEVEN ZIMMER, a doctoral candidate in American history at the University of Iowa, describes the Meskwaki fight for self-governance, in the face of the federal government’s efforts to force assimilation on them, from the time they established the Meskwaki Settlement in the 1850s until they adopted a constitution under the Roosevelt administration’s Indian New Deal in the 1930s. GREGORY L. SCHNEIDER, professor of history at Emporia State University in Kansas, relates the efforts made by the State of Iowa to maintain service on former Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad lines in the 1970s as that once mighty railroad company faced the liquidation of its holdings in the wake of bankruptcy proceedings. Front Cover As the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad faced bankruptcy in the 1970s, it abandoned branch lines and depots across the state of Iowa. This 1983 photo of the abandoned depot and platforms in West Liberty repre- sents just one of many such examples. To read about how the State of Iowa stepped in to try to maintain as much rail service as possible as the Rock Island was liquidated, see Gregory Schneider’s article in this issue. Photo taken by and courtesy of James Beranek. Editorial Consultants Rebecca Conard, Middle Tennessee State R. David Edmunds, University of Texas University at Dallas Kathleen Neils Conzen, University of H. Roger Grant, Clemson University Chicago William C. Pratt, University of Nebraska William Cronon, University of Wisconsin– at Omaha Madison Glenda Riley, Ball State University Robert R. -
Omaha Area Schools
High Schools near Zip Code 68102 School Grades Students P/T Ratio Zipcode Central High School 09-12 2592 17.7 68102 Burke High School 09-12 2092 17.5 68154 Omaha North Magnet High School 09-12 1924 17.3 68111 Bryan High School 09-12 1758 17.5 68157 Omaha South Magnet High School 09-12 1740 14.9 68107 Benson Magnet High School 09-12 1526 15.6 68104 Omaha Northwest High School 09-12 1416 15.5 68134 (* = alternative school) Middle Schools near Zip Code 68102 School Grades Students P/T Ratio Zipcode King Science/Tech Magnet Middle School 07-08 399 10.9 68110 Bryan Middle School 07-08 821 13.7 68147 Norris Middle School 07-08 758 13.9 68106 Beveridge Magnet Middle School 07-08 720 13.6 68144 Mc Millan Magnet Middle School 07-08 686 13.5 68112 Morton Magnet Middle School 07-08 633 13.7 68134 Alice Buffett Magnet Middle School 07-08 632 15.7 68164 Monroe Middle School 07-08 586 12.7 68104 Lewis & Clark Middle School 07-08 564 12.7 68132 R M Marrs Magnet Middle School 07-08 515 11.4 68107 Hale Middle School 07-08 290 9 68152 Elementary Schools near Zip Code 68102 School Grades Students P/T Ratio Zipcode Liberty Elementary School PK-06 591 11.7 68102 Kellom Elementary School PK-06 351 11 68102 Bancroft Elementary School PK-06 674 12.5 68108 Field Club Elementary School PK-06 643 14.8 68105 Jefferson Elementary School PK-06 516 16.5 68105 Castelar Elementary School PK-06 488 11.2 68108 Lothrop Magnet Center PK-06 366 12.7 68110 Walnut Hill Elementary School PK-06 345 12.5 68131 Conestoga Magnet Elementary School PK-06 305 10 68110 King Science/Tech -
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. -
Report Resumes Ed 016 749 Ud 005 460 Multiple Activities Program, Esea Title I, September 1966 to September 1967, an Evaluation
REPORT RESUMES ED 016 749 UD 005 460 MULTIPLE ACTIVITIES PROGRAM, ESEA TITLE I, SEPTEMBER 1966 TO SEPTEMBER 1967, AN EVALUATION. NEBRASKA STATE DEPT. OF EDUCATION, LINCOLN OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, NEBR. PUB DATE 67 EDRS PRICE MF -$1.00 HC- $10.52 261P. DESCRIPTORS- *DISADVANTAGED YOUTH, *COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROGRAMS, *PROGRAM EVALUATION, *DATA, STUDENT ENROLLMENT, FEDERAL PROGRAMS, SPEECH THERAPISTS, DROPOUTS, PERSONNEL, FACILITY EXPANSION, TUTORING, REMEDIAL READING, PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES, COMMUNITY COORDINATORS, RESOURCE CENTERS, CURRICULUM PLANNING, INSERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION' SPECIAL EDUCATION, LIBRARY SERVICES, OMAHA, NEBRASKA, ESEA TITLE 1, MULTIPLE ACTIVITIES PROGRAM THE MULTIPLE ACTIVITIES PROGRAM, A COMPREHENSIVE COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROJECT FOR DISADVANTAGED YOUTH, IS EVALUATED IN THIS REPORT. THE BASIC DATA IN THE FIRST SECTION . DESCRIBES THE NUMBER OF THE PROJECT'S PUBLIC AND NONPUBLIC SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS, PROJECT PERSONNEL, DROPOUTS, STUDENTS CONTINUING THEIR EDUCATION BEYOND HIGH SCHOOL, AND THE PROJECTS COORDINATION WITH OTHER FEDERAL PROGRAMS AND WITH COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS. IN AN ADDITIONAL SECTION THE PROJECT'S 16 DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES ARE DESCRIBED AND EVALUATED. THESE ACTIVITIES INVOLVED EXTENDED USE OF STAFF AND FACILITIES, VOLUNTEER TUTORING, REMEDIAL READING, PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES, COMMUNITY AIDES, ENRICHMENT, VISITING TEACHERS, PROGRAMS FOR ACOUSTICALLY AND VISUALLY HANDICAPPED STUDENTS, CURRICULUM CONSULTANTS, CHILD AND YOUTH STUDY INSERVICE TEACHER TRAINING, TEACHER CONSULTANTS, SPECIAL EDUCATION, LIBRARY -
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. -
Title I Schools Accountability Calculations 16-17
TITLE I SCHOOLS ACCOUNTABILITY CALCULATIONS 16-17 - Amount Allocated $2,666,868 District Building 20% Accountability Accountability DISTRICT ID DISTRICT NAME AGENCY ID SCHOOL NAME Allocation District Allocation Amounts Amount 01-0018-000 HASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS 01-0018-003 ALCOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL $178,305 $7,926 01-0018-000 HASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS 01-0018-005 LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL $199,242 $11,889 01-0018-000 HASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS 01-0018-006 LONGFELLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL $104,683 $7,926 $27,742 01-0123-000 SILVER LAKE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 01-0123-002 SILVER LAKE ELEM SCH-BLADEN $26,827 $3,963 $3,963 02-2001-000 NEBRASKA UNIFIED DISTRICT 1 02-2001-002 CLEARWATER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL $20,128 $3,963 02-2001-000 NEBRASKA UNIFIED DISTRICT 1 02-2001-006 VERDIGRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL $28,057 $2,642 02-2001-000 NEBRASKA UNIFIED DISTRICT 1 02-2001-007 CLEARWATER/ORCHARD MIDDLE SCHOOL $25,617 $2,642 02-2001-000 NEBRASKA UNIFIED DISTRICT 1 02-2001-010 VERDIGRE MIDDLE SCHOOL $20,738 $5,284 $14,531 04-0001-000 BANNER COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS 04-0001-002 BANNER COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL $52,965 $4,624 $4,624 05-0071-000 SANDHILLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS 05-0071-002 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT HALSEY $30,424 $3,963 $3,963 06-0001-000 BOONE CENTRAL SCHOOLS 06-0001-002 BOONE CENTRAL ELEM-ALBION $53,434 $4,624 $4,624 06-0017-000 ST EDWARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS 06-0017-002 ST EDWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL $33,568 $3,963 $3,963 07-0006-000 ALLIANCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 07-0006-004 EMERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL $175,926 $5,945 07-0006-000 ALLIANCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 07-0006-005 GRANDVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL -
Proclamations - Nixon (1)” of the William J
The original documents are located in Box 34, folder “Proclamations - Nixon (1)” of the William J. Baroody Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Copyright Notice The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Gerald R. Ford donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections. Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid copyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Digitized from Box 34 of the William J. Baroody Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library ---·~------~------------------~ ----j-----------------·----·-------- --1 I i ~-1-- -11----- ·--- \ AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY 9650 ROCKVU•. LE PIKE BETHESDA, MARYLAND :20014 PHONE: 301 530-JSOO .February 12, 1974 1 . \ Miss ·McAuleisse c/o Mr. Baroody's Office The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D. C. Dear Miss McAuleisse: Enclosed are the names and addresses of the Past Presidents and the Board of Trustees of the American College of Cardiology that you re quested in order to send the Heart Month Proc lamation. Sincerely, ~-+ 9LA,;, (Mrs.) Beverly J. Sandlin Secretary I I I I. I I. AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY PAST PRESIDENTS * * * ) I l ..~ .Ashton Graybiel, M. D., F .A. C. C. U. S. Naval .Aerospace Medical Institute Pensacola, Florida 32512 Walter S.