North Omaha History

North Omaha History
Author: Adam Fletcher Sasse
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781539973614

In the third book of the North Omaha History Series, Adam Fletcher Sasse reveals a lot of the hidden, denied and neglected history of one of the oldest areas of Nebraska's largest city. Highlighting the predominantly African American community and other ethnic groups, he introduces some intriguing characters and important businesses that made North Omaha great. He reveals the role of transportation in the area by examining the history of several streets, including the culture and figures in the areas around them. He details the roles of North Omaha's extensive boulevard system that weaves together neighborhoods and connects the community to the rest of the city, as well as looks at the historic Belt Line Railway that used to encircle the area. In the next section, Fletcher Sasse conducts a community-wide exploration of architecture in North Omaha. He reveals the basics about the neighborhood, and then plunges deep into the apartments, homes, neighborhoods and other institutions that make the historic preservation movement so important to the community. He details several important districts and shines a light on the oldest houses in North Omaha, too. Then, he tells the missing history of a dozen mansions and estates that once occupied the area. The final section of the book is a massive timeline of birthdates for the many of the most important people in North Omaha history, including athletes, entertainers, politicians, leaders and others. The book finishes with a bibliography and comprehensive index.

Get Your Knee Off Our Necks

Get Your Knee Off Our Necks
Author: Bruce E. Johansen
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030851559

The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and the ensuing trial of Derek Chauvin for murder a year later has rubbed raw the bloodiest stain on the United States’ history and its world reputation. The nine minutes and 29 seconds during which Chauvin’s knee crushed the spark of life out of Floyd was not unusual in the history of the United States. Before the U.S. Civil War, slaves were routinely beaten to death for disobeying orders or running away, then often lynched. In roughly two centuries, Blacks have achieved nominal freedom. But, as this book’s opening chapter and expert essays that follow indicate, freedom has been conditional based on inequity of wealth, social, and legal discrimination. None of this is new in the United States; what is new is the number of people rising up in protest, a figure in the millions around the world after Floyd’s murder. This book supplies a readable, scholarly account of recent issues in race and racism in the United States that will be useful for general readers, undergraduate students, and their professors. It will be useful in many fields, including Black studies, other ethnic pursuits, United States history, law, criminal justice, intercultural communication, et al. The work contains a powerful historical narrative followed by several important, essays on subjects including George Floyd’s murder, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and many other victims of systematic racism.

Federal Civil Rights Enforcement Effort

Federal Civil Rights Enforcement Effort
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1194
Release: 1970
Genre: Civil rights
ISBN:

Report on the structure, mechanisms and procedures utilised by federal public administration agencies in the prevention of discrimination and the protection of legal status and human rights of individuals and minority groups and the administration of justice in respect thereof in the USA - covers equal employment opportunities, housing, etc., and includes administrative aspects. References.

The Right to Privacy

The Right to Privacy
Author: Samuel D. Brandeis, Louis D. Warren
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2018-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3732645487

Reproduction of the original: The Right to Privacy by Samuel D. Warren, Louis D. Brandeis