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	Omaha Race Riot of 1919 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The race riot resulted in the brutal lynching death of a fl man, the death of two white men, the attempted hanging of the mayor of Omaha and a public rampage that included the burning of the Douglas County Courthouse in downtown Omaha.
		The responsibility of the so-called yellow journalism of the Bee for stoking the conditions for the riot is a common factor in explanations of the event.
		Afterward, the city of Omaha, previously a cosmopolitan city similar to Chicago in its mixing of races and ethnicities, was segregated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Omaha_Riot (2564 words)

	Omaha, Nebraska
		Omaha was chosen as the eastern terminus of America's first transcontinental railroad in 1862 with the passage of the Pacific Railroad Act.
		Omaha's growth was accerlerated in the 1880s by the rapid development of the meatpacking industry in South Omaha; in the 1880s, Omaha was the fastest-growing city in the United States.
		Omaha is home to the Omaha Community Playhouse, one of the most famous and best-endowed community theaters in the United States, and to Girls and Boys Town; its Henry Doorly Zoo is widely considered one of the premier zoos in the world.
	creekin.net /c7719-n232-omaha-nebraska.html (2552 words)

	Omaha - omaha world herald
		Omaha omaha migraine headache was founded in the summer of 1854 by land speculators from Council Bluffs, months after omaha quest center the Kansas-Nebraska Act created the Nebraska Territory.
		Omaha's growth was accelerated in the 1880s by the rapid development of the meatpacking industry in South Omaha; in the 1880s, Omaha was the fastest-growing city in the United States.
		Omaha from omaha was also the birthplace of Malcolm X, but his family moved to Milwaukee when he was one year old.
	www.meteoroloo.com /Met-North-America-O---R/Omaha.html (2896 words)

	Education: Omaha Timeline 1880-1889 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Omaha officially became the county seat of Douglas County.
		Omaha was connected by telephone with Lincoln and Plattsmouth.
		The round house of the Missouri Pacific Railroad in Omaha was destroyed by fire.
	www.omahahistory.org /Education_Timeline6.htm (1090 words)

	Omaha's Riot in Story and Picture - 1919
		The dramatic facts of the mob scenes are herein set forth in word and picture, with the view of stimulating serious thought and a possible probe into conditions that seem to foster anarchy.
		The riot lasted until 3 o'clock in the morning of September 29.
		Machine guns were placed in the heart of Omaha's business district and in the center of the "fl belt." [Note: picture at Twenty-Fourth and Lake Streets] Major General Leonard Wood, commander of the Central Department, came the next day to Omaha by order of Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War.
	www.historicomaha.com /riot.htm (2493 words)

	Omaha, Nebraska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Omaha is home to the Omaha Community Playhouse, the largest, and also one of the most famous and best-endowed community theaters in the United States, and to Girls and Boys Town; its Henry Doorly Zoo is widely considered one of the premier zoos in the world.
		Omaha's position as a transportation center was finalized with the 1872 opening of the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge linking the transcontinental railroad to the railroads terminating in Council Bluffs.
		Omaha's Missouri River road bridges are now entering their second generation, including the WPA financed South Omaha Bridge (now Veteran's Memorial) which was added to the National Register of Historic Places and is currently scheduled to be demolished.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Omaha,_Nebraska (3914 words)

	Shadowrun - Omaha Timeline
		Omaha and Winnebago tribes shunned by NAN due to the close relationship developing between Nebraska and the tribes.
		Omaha and Winnebago tribe members consequentially purchase a number of farms which have gone bankrupt, in an effort to revitalize the soil.
		Riots ensue throughout the Omalink area, but stop abruptly when the Dance of Dragons is reported by the press.
	members.cox.net /~lightfinger/sr/omaha/omaha_timeline.htm (1187 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Omaha Bee advocated the election of the delegates by the legislature on the ground that stronger men would be chosen by this method than by popular election; but the Herald properly opposed that plan.
		All that part of the Omaha and Winnebago reservation not included in Cuming or Burt counties was attached to Dakota county for judicial and revenue purposes.
		It is significant that the Omaha papers excepting the Bee, the Lincoln Journal, and the state government were distinctly biased in favor of the railroad company, the Bee alone giving the other side a hearing.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/honjsm21.html (11355 words)

	Untitled Document
		The city of Omaha was officially incorporated by the Legislature of the Territory of Nebraska in 1857.
		The city charter determined that Omaha would be controlled by a mayor and a common council.
		A race riot ensued in Omaha in 1919 after a white woman accused a fl man of robbing and raping her, and the newspapers wrote sensationalist stories vilifying fl men in Omaha.
	www.hamline.edu /personal/dkirchner01/urban/cases/omaha03.html (821 words)

	Omaha Race Riot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rioters on the south side of Douglas County Courthouse, Omaha, Nebraska, September 28, 1919
		Headline in the Omaha World-Herald, September 29, 1919
		Soldiers on guard at 24th and Lake streets, Omaha, following the 1919 riot.
	bss.sfsu.edu /tygiel/Hist427/1919Photos/omaharaceriot.htm (46 words)

	tulsa race riot
		But when the riot broke out, both mother and daughter were forced to abandon their apartment and flee for their lives, running north along Greenwood Avenue amid a hail of bullets.
		Riot survivors, participants, and observers, to be certain, still told stories of their experiences to family and friends.
		A young girl at the time of the riot, Avery had been haunted by her memories of the smoke and flames rising up over the African American district, and by the two trucks carrying the bodies of riot victims that had passed in front of her home on East 8th Street.
	www.ipoaa.com /tulsa_race_riot_overview.htm (7702 words)

	History of Nebraska By Morton & Watkins
		The democratic state convention, held in Lincoln, September 9th, nominated Eleazer Wakeley of Omaha, for judge of the supreme court and Alexander Bear of Madison county and Andrew J. Sawyer of Lancaster, for regents of the University.
		Thereupon the governor at once placed the Nebraska National Guards under orders to be held in readiness for duty, and he made a formal requisition upon the president of the United States for troops to aid in suppressing domestic violence.
		The committee on claims, to whom the resolution was referred, reported that the riot was of a dangerous character and required military interference.
	www.rootsweb.com /~neresour/OLLibrary/MWHNE/mwhne596.htm (3419 words)

	Photographs from the FSA and OWI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 1938 article traced the development of the Union Pacific and other railroads--for which Omaha was an important center--and the political machinations that made their builders millionaires.
		The Omaha in Vachon's photographs is more varied and complex than the one in Leighton's text, but the photographer's broad coverage may in fact have been inspired by the attention the writer paid to the many levels of the city's society.
		Vachon's pictures of Omaha's streets offer a personal vision of an imperfect world, and they solve the test he posed for himself when he first arrived in Nebraska.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/fsahtml/fachap02.html (1202 words)

	The Tulsa, Oklahoma Race Riot of 1921
		From Chicago to Tulsa, to Omaha, East St. Louis, and many communities in between, and finally to Rosewood, white mobs pursued what can only be described as a reign of terror against African Americans during the period from 1917 to 1923.
		If so, the Tulsa race riot would go down as the worst single act of domestic violence on U. soil since the Civil War; worse than the 1965 Watts riot, the 1967 Detroit riot, the 1992 Los Angeles riot and the 1995 Oklahoma city bombing.
		Sometime near 1am, the mayor and the chief of police sent a message to the governor, informing him that the riot was out of control and requested assistance.
	www.exodusnews.com /HISTORY/History007.htm (1136 words)

	Omaha, Nebraska - www.1-omaha.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		North Omaha just north of downtown Omaha, is the urban center and one of Omaha's most trendy communities.
		Though located at approximately the same latitude as Rome Italy, Omaha, by virtue of lying near the center of the North American continent, far from either large bodies of water or mountain ranges, has a typically continental climate, with hot summers and cold winters.
		Omaha has a number of Catholic/parochial high schools: Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart, Gross, Marian, Mercy, Roncalli, and Skutt.
	www.1-omaha.com (3878 words)

	Lesson Plans for Omaha Race Riot
		Discuss the events of the Omaha race riot and construct an outline of the key events.
		Instruct students to conduct an interview with a person who was a contemporary of the Omaha race riot in 1919 using the "How to Conduct and Utilize Oral Interviews" as a guide for their interview.
		However, students living in other areas of Nebraska could interview people in their areas to determine what the interviewee knew about the Omaha race riot and what their reactions were to the riot.
	www.nebraskastudies.org /0700/resources/0700_1040.html (2128 words)

	Top20Omaha.com - Your Top20Guide to Omaha, NE.
		According to the 2004 census estimate, Omaha's population had risen to 409,416.
		Located on the eastern edge of Nebraska, it is on the Missouri River, about 20 miles north of the mouth of the Platte River.
		The Omaha-Council Bluffs-Fremont Combined Statistical Area is comprised of the Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Fremont Micropolitan Statistical Area; the CSA has a population of 839,867 (2004 Census Bureau estimate).
	top20omaha.com (2848 words)

	statethn.html
		In the 1920s, Omaha’s African American and Jewish community on North 24th Street bustled with enterprise and vigor.
		The historical setting of America, and Omaha, at the turn of the century establishes the tone for exploring the explosive Omaha riot of 1919.
		Race relations and the socioeconomic factors that built up to the riot lead us into an examination of the police department, General Wood and the 2,000 federal soldiers he escorted to Omaha, Mayor Smith, and political and gang-related activities of the time.
	cehs.unl.edu /rrp/statethn.html (651 words)

	Omaha Sunday World-Herald \| The Popular Knocker.
		This is a true story, although it may be branded as a "nature-fake" by those who haven't experienced the pleasure described in it.
		Photographs of a Chickadee eating a bit od suet from the lips of Ernest Harold Baynes, famous naturalist, pretty nearly caused a riot among Omaha skeptics when printed in the World-Herald a couple of years ago.
		Yet the writer has had Chickadees, as well as Tufted Titmice, sitting on the brim of his hat and on the tip of his shouldered walking stick in the vicinity of Elmwood park as recently as a couple of weeks past!
	libtextcenter.unl.edu /birds_of_nebraska/articles.php?id=DJ.00684 (414 words)

	311 Tickets Omaha - Westfair Amphitheater - Concert tickets available now - 311 Omaha Tickets
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	Omaha Resource Page - Omaha
		This 100-acre botanical garden features 13 outdoor areas, including a rose garden, herb garden, children’s garden and an arboretum.
		On March 8, 2005, Omaha annexed Elkhorn; this annexation was upheld by a district court order on August 19.[1] This annexation is not yet final, as Elkhorn has appealed the district court ruling.
		Forensic entomology deals with the examination of insects in, on, and around human remains to assist in determination of time or location of death.
	www.forensico.com /For-List_of_Colleges_U-/_Omaha.html (2826 words)

	Nebraska Time Line
		Lincoln became the state capital on July 29.
		The Union Pacific Railroad is completed; terminus is at Omaha.
		1968and1969 - Race riots required intervention by the military and the National Guard.
	members.cox.net /awise130/time.htm (769 words)

	Nebraska History Quarterly, Contents of Volume 68, 1987
		Terry Townsend, whose painting is reproduced on the cover, had a long and varied career.
		He was a vocalist in the early days of Nebraska radio; a commercial artist and illustrator during his mature years; and a field director for the American Red Cross during World War II.
		He lived at various times in Omaha, Seward, Wayne, Chadron, Grand Island, Fairbury, and Lincoln.
	www.nebraskahistory.org /publish/publicat/history/back87.htm (374 words)

	Historic Omaha
		Listed below are links to pages of historical pictures and information about Omaha, Nebraska.
		Omaha's First Century, by Walter H. Rowley (Written at the time of Omaha's 1954 Centennial
		Omaha From the Air - 1947 aerial photographs
	www.historicomaha.com /hisomaha.htm (78 words)

	SLAM Omaha
		Ten years ago there were really only a handful of bands playing seriously, and there were clubs to play.
		Now there are many bands with really only three venues (in Omaha) to play on a consistent basis--it has become quite competitive in a way.
		-One of Omaha’s longest running bands The Confidentials will release their new CD Foundation tonight at Witherspoon Hall which is located inside the Joslyn Museum. Gooding will bring his multi-media extravaganza to Knickerbockers this evening.
	www.slamomaha.com /theBuzz/default.asp?page=61 (873 words)

	Library Special Collections
		History of Omaha by Savage and Bell - Errata by H.W. Becker
		Gampper, Terry A. Omaha Race Relations Since the 1919 Court House Riot
		University of Omaha, The Early History of the
	www.omahahistory.org /library_special_collections.htm (366 words)

	Nebraska Arts Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Blue Barn Theatre's touring production of Minstrel Show, or the Lynching of William Brown is a two-man show about the 1919 race riot in Omaha.
		You can enjoy NAC-sponsored community productions of The Taming of the Shrew in seven Nebraska communities this fall: Albion, David City, Kearney, Macy, Minden, and Omaha.
		Nebraska Shakespeare's production of The Taming of the Shrew is also a part of the National Endowment for the Arts' (NEA) Shakespeare in American Communities program.
	www.nebraskaartscouncil.org /index_html?page=content/NEWS/spotlight (493 words)

	SouthEastern Nebraska Resources
		An excellent resource for a Bryan field trip and study.
		state capitols, from the 1854 Omaha territorial capitol to the present
		Czechs were one of the nationalities that emigrated to the United States of America in the late 1800s and early 1900.
	cehs.unl.edu /rrp/seast.html (1073 words)

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