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African Americans -- Nebraska

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 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

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

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

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