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2. African Americans in Omaha, Nebraska - Wikipedia

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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.While population statistics show almost constantly increasing percentages of Black people living in the city since it was founded in 1854, [1] Black people in Omaha have not been represented equitably in the city's political, social, cultural, economic or educational ...

3. Near North Side, Omaha - Wikipedia

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   Countless momentous events in Omaha's African American community happened in the Near North Side, including the 1865 establishment of the first Black church in Omaha, St. John's AME; the 1892 election of the first African American state legislator, Dr. Matthew Ricketts; the 1897 hiring of the first Black teacher in Omaha, Ms. Lucy Gamble, the ...

4. List of African-American historic places in Omaha, Nebraska

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   "Omaha Black Heritage Sites" on NorthOmahaHistory.com includes 165 locations, addresses and references in Omaha. Nebraska Black Oral History Project finding aid and digital collection, digitized by Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska at Omaha Libraries; original held by History Nebraska.

5. Great Plains Black History Museum - Wikipedia

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   The Great Plains Black History Museum currently resides on the first floor of the historic Jewell Building in North Omaha, Nebraska. It was formerly located at 2213 Lake Street in the Near North Side neighborhood in North Omaha.

6. Culture of North Omaha, Nebraska - Wikipedia

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   Far North Omaha, near Florence, was home to an almost exclusively Scandinavian immigrant community. With a variety of churches and social clubs, this neighborhood was a cultural center for many of North Omaha's working class and middle class whites. Los of industrial jobs in the late 1950s and 1960s accelerated changes in the neighborhood.

7. Racial tension in Omaha, Nebraska - Wikipedia

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   In 1995, an African-American gang member murdered an Omaha police officer named Jimmy Wilson, Jr. The city responded by equipping every police car with a camera and giving North Omaha officers body armor. Later that year, arsonists tipped over and burned an African-American woman's car in East Omaha near the site of the 1981 arson. Both cases ...