• The civil rights movement in Omaha, Nebraska, has roots that extend back until at least 1912. With a history of racial tension that starts before the founding...
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    The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination...
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    Omaha (/ˈoʊməhɑː/ OH-mə-hah) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern...
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  • Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska African Americans in Omaha, Nebraska Greeks in Omaha, Nebraska Timeline of riots and civil unrest in Omaha, Nebraska...
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  • This is a timeline of the civil rights movement in the United States, a nonviolent mid-20th century freedom movement to gain legal equality and the enforcement...
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  • African Americans in Omaha, Nebraska are central to the development and growth of the 43rd largest city in the United States. Black people are first recorded...
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    American Jews played an important role in the country's civil rights movement, forming alliances with African American leaders and organizations. Jewish...
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    The Omaha Race Riot occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, September 28–29, 1919. The race riot resulted in the lynching of Will Brown, a black civilian; the death...
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  • The following is a list of riots and civil unrest in Omaha, Nebraska. With its economic roots in cattle processing, meatpacking, railroads, manufacturing...
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  • Racial tension in Omaha, Nebraska occurred mostly because of the city's volatile mixture of high numbers of new immigrants from southern and eastern Europe...
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    civil rights movement. United States portal History of North Omaha, Nebraska List of newspapers in the United States "Park Named in Honor of 'Omaha (Neb...
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    natives of Omaha, Nebraska Timeline of Racial Tension in Omaha, Nebraska Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska Racial Tension in Omaha, Nebraska Douglas...
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    Mildred Brown (category African-American life in Omaha, Nebraska)
    in the Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska. Part of the Great Migration, she travelled from Alabama via New York and Des Moines, Iowa. In Omaha,...
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  • DePorres Club (category Civil rights movement)
    in the Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska, whose "goals and tactics foreshadowed the efforts of civil rights activists throughout the nation in...
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    Malcolm X House Site (category Landmarks in North Omaha, Nebraska)
    In 2008, the foundation established six plots on the site for a community garden. Civil rights movement in Omaha, Nebraska History of North Omaha, Nebraska...
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    improvements in the legal rights of some previously oppressed groups of people, in some places. The main aim of the successful civil rights movement and other...
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  • The civil rights movement (1896–1954) was a long, primarily nonviolent action to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The...
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    North Omaha is a community area in Omaha, Nebraska, in the United States. It is bordered by Cuming and Dodge Streets on the south, Interstate 680 on the...
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  • The civil rights movement (1865–1896) aimed to eliminate racial discrimination against African Americans, improve their educational and employment opportunities...
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    half-breed tract. Today six tribes, (Omaha, Winnebago, Ponca, Iowa, Santee Sioux, Sac and Fox), have reservations in Nebraska. In 2006 American Indian and Alaska...
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  • Index of articles related to African Americans (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    Civil Rights Cases Civil rights movement Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Civil rights movement (1896–1954) Civil rights movement in Omaha, Nebraska...
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  • by Black people in Nebraska began in the 1860s. Edwin R. Overall (1835–1901) was an early civil rights activist and politician in Omaha. After being an...
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  • The history of the 1954 to 1968 American civil rights movement has been depicted and documented in film, song, theater, television, and the visual arts...
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    Ernie Chambers (category African-American life in Omaha, Nebraska)
    1937) is an American politician and civil rights activist who represented North Omaha's 11th District in the Nebraska State Legislature from 1971 to 2009...
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    African American women played a variety of important roles in the 1954-1968 civil rights movement. They served as leaders, demonstrators, organizers, fundraisers...
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  • Hamitic League of the World (category African-American history in Omaha, Nebraska)
    Crusader which subsequently became the journal of the African Blood Brotherhood. United States portal Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska v t e v t e...
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  • Lynching of Joe Coe (category Lynchings in Omaha, Nebraska)
    portal Crime in Omaha Mass racial violence in the United States Racial tension in Omaha, Nebraska Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska Ginzburg, R...
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    Whitney Young (category African-American life in Omaha, Nebraska)
    Dorothy Height, and Donald Rumsfeld. Civil rights movement in Omaha, Nebraska Big Six (activists) List of civil rights leaders "Notable Kentucky African...
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    first sit-in during the Civil Rights Movement. Five years after it was opened, the building was almost destroyed by mob violence in the Omaha Race Riot...
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  • Rudy Smith (category University of Nebraska Omaha alumni)
    life in Nebraska, particularly within the black community. He was the first black graduate of Omaha University's (later University of Nebraska at Omaha) communications...
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