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African Americans -- Nebraska

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

African-American and Jewish Collaboration and Conflict Oral History Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: UNO-0250
Content Description

UNO adjunct instructor Jeannette Gabriel’s students collected oral history interviews in fall 2018 for the course History 2990: African-American and Jewish Collaboration and Conflict. The interviews were collected from Jewish and African American residents of Omaha. Individuals interviewed were: A’Jamal Byndon, Tuffy Epstein, and Richard Fellman.

Dates: 2018
Found in: University of Nebraska at Omaha Archives & Special Collections

Great Plains Black History Museum Collection

 Collection — Box 1-16
Identifier: GPBHM
Scope and Contents Archival material from the Great Plains Black History Museum (GPBHM) consists of over 200 document boxes of letters, photographs, clippings, artifacts, and other collection material. An archivist for the GPBHM inventoried the material and identified potential series for the collection, including Local Histories, Black Institutions, Family Papers, Rare Books, Musical Scores, Bertha Calloway’s Research Collection, Photographs, Artifacts, and Unknown or Miscellaneous documents. ...
Dates: 1906 - 1997
Found in: University of Nebraska at Omaha Archives & Special Collections

Interview with A'Jamal Byndon, November 18, 2018

 Item
Identifier: UNO-0250-A'Jamal-Byndon
Scope and Contents Interview of A'Jamal Rashad Byndon, conducted November 18th, 2018 by Emmaline "Emily" Sabin and Luke Heitmann, for the African-American and Jewish Collaboration and Conflict Oral History Project and associated class. Byndon summarizes his own life and experiences as an African-American in Omaha, and connects these experiences with the current state of Omaha and of Omaha Public Schools (OPS).Byndon was born in Hastings, Nebraska, the second of 14 children. His family moved to...
Dates: November 18, 2018
Found in: University of Nebraska at Omaha Archives & Special Collections / African-American and Jewish Collaboration and Conflict Oral History Interviews

Interview with Arnold Epstein, November 18, 2018

 Item
Identifier: UNO-0250-Arnold-Epstein
Scope and Contents Interview of Arnold "Tuffy" Epstein, conducted by Amanda Ryan on October 31st, 2018, for the African-American and Jewish Collaboration and Conflict Oral History Project and associated class. Epstein details his life as musician, teacher and Jewish person in Omaha. He also presents his own early life and the story of his family. Epstein's father emigrated from Russia in the early 1900s, married, and settled in Omaha. Epstein's own early memories were of the grocery store his parents owned in...
Dates: November 18, 2018
Found in: University of Nebraska at Omaha Archives & Special Collections / African-American and Jewish Collaboration and Conflict Oral History Interviews

Interview with Dick Fellman, November 15, 2018

 Item
Identifier: UNO-0250-Richard-Fellman
Scope and Contents Interview of Richard "Dick" Fellman, conducted November 15th, 2018, by Kendall Panas and Zach Pederson for the African-American and Jewish Collaboration and Conflict Oral History Project. Fellman's interview alternates between his recollections of his own life and his observations on the current state of the world, the city of Omaha, and the Jewish community therein.Fellman was born in a family of Jewish immigrants, and attended both Hebrew and secular grade school during his...
Dates: November 15, 2018
Found in: University of Nebraska at Omaha Archives & Special Collections / African-American and Jewish Collaboration and Conflict Oral History Interviews

John Adams Jr., Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0514
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of photographs of John Adams Jr. as part of the Nebraska Legislature and Kappa Alpha Psi, certificates of election to the legislature and qualifications as an attorney, photographs and an obituary of his wife Constance Bell Singleton Adams, and a newspaper clipping with cartoons of John Adams Jr. with the senators from Nebraska.

Dates: circa 1918-1941, 2004; Majority of material found within circa 1929-1941
Found in: Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Nebraska Black Oral History Project

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0130
Content Description The 42 interviews span a wide range of subjects, including civil rights efforts at the University of Nebraska, the work of Nebraska State Senator Edward Danner, school desegregation, and labor conditions. Interviews conducted over a two-year period, 1980-1982, for a project funded by the Nebraska Committee for the Humanities, and sponsored by the Black Studies Department, UNL; The Great Plains Black [History] Museum; and the Nebraska Association for the Study of African American...
Dates: 1980-1982
Found in: University of Nebraska at Omaha Archives & Special Collections

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