Category: Segregation

A History of Omaha’s Urban League

Post author By Adam F.C. Fletcher
Post date January 28, 2019
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This is a colorized version of a circa 1940s pic of the Near North Side Community Center operated by the Omaha Urban League. It was located in the Webster Telephone Exchange Building at 2213 Lake Street.

A hallowed history unlike any other organization in the state, the Urban League of Nebraska is committed to, “…lead Nebraska in closing the social economic gap in the African American, other emerging ethnic communities and disadvantaged families in the achievement of social equality and economic independence and growth.” From the official Urban League of Nebraska […]

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A History of Omaha’s North Downtown

Post author By Adam F.C. Fletcher
Post date July 31, 2018
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This is a 1952 aerial pic of North Downtown, looking south from Burt Street to Capitol Avenue, with North 13th on the left and North 20th Street on the right.

This is a history of Omaha’s North Downtown neighborhood.

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A History of North Omaha’s Lake School

Post author By Adam F.C. Fletcher
Post date July 21, 2018
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This is an original 1890s blueprint of the Lake School, once located at N. 20th and Lake Streets.

Lake School was a fixture in the neighborhood for a century. This is its history…

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A History of North Omaha’s Covenant Presbyterian Church

Post author By Adam F.C. Fletcher
Post date July 20, 2018
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The Covenant Presbyterian Church was located in North Omaha for almost 100 years. Learn more here…

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A History of 3210 North 21st Street

Post author By Adam F.C. Fletcher
Post date May 16, 2018
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This 3120 N. 21st St. in the Kountze Place neighborhood of North Omaha.

This is the history of an average home in North Omaha, which is old but not remarkable.

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A History of North Omaha’s Provident Hospital

Post author By Adam F.C. Fletcher
Post date May 10, 2018
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This is a drawing of the once-proposed Provident Hospital, a segregated healthcare facility planned for N. 30th and Wirt Streets in North Omaha. It was never built.

North Omaha’s Provident Hospital was an attempt to challenge the city’s racism. What happened?

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A Tour of the Omaha Civil Rights Movement

Post author By Adam F.C. Fletcher
Post date March 28, 2018
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(Clockwise from upper left) Ella Mahammit; Omaha Star offices; Black Panthers Headquarters; Alfonso Davis; Ernie Chambers; Matthew Ricketts; 4CL; DePorres Club flyer; First Black Bus Drivers; Celia Clemmens; Omaha Black Panthers; George Wells Parker; 4CL protest; St. Phillips Episcopal Church; Mondo we Langa; DePorres Club protest

This is a tour of various sites associated with the Civil Rights movement in Omaha, Nebraska.