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African-American life in Omaha, Nebraska

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The list African-American life in Omaha, Nebraska includes Malcolm X, Whitney Young, Ferdinand L. Barnett, Joe Coe and Ophelia Clenlans. The list consists of 38 members and 2 sublists.
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    Malcolm X
    American Black rights activist (1925–1965)
    Malcolm X
    Overview: El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Arabic: ٱلْحَاجّ مَالِك ٱلشَّبَازّ‎, al-Ḥājj Mālik ash-Shabāzz; born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), better known as Malcolm X, was an American Muslim ...
    Date of birth: 19 May 1925
    Date of death: 21 February 1965
    Age: 39 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)
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    20th-century American memoirists 459T
    Deaths by firearm in Manhattan 78T
    African-American heroes and icons 14T
  • 2.

    Whitney Young
    American civil rights leader
    Whitney Young
    Overview: Whitney Moore Young Jr. (July 31, 1921 – March 11, 1971) was an American civil rights leader. He spent most of his career working to end employment discrimination in the United States and turning the ...
    Date of birth: 31 July 1921
    Date of death: 11 March 1971
    Age: 49 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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    University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development alumni 50T
    MIT School of Engineering alumni 716T
    Activists from New Rochelle, New York 22T
  • 3.

    Ferdinand L. Barnett
    American, Journalist
    Ferdinand L. Barnett
    Overview: Ferdinand Lee Barnett ( February 18, 1852 – March 11, 1936) was an African-American journalist, lawyer, and civil rights activist in Chicago, Illinois in the late Reconstruction era and after. He was a ...
    Date of birth: 18 February 1852
    Date of death: 11 March 1936
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Journalist
    Gender: Male
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    Politicians from Huntsville, Alabama 47T
    Politicians from Omaha, Nebraska 118T
    African-American newspapers published in Omaha, Nebraska 14T
  • 4.

    Ella Mahammitt
    American journalist
    Ella Mahammitt
    Overview: Ella Lillian Davis Browne Mahammitt (November 1863 – perhaps 1903) was an American journalist, civil rights activist, and women's rights activist from Omaha, Nebraska. She was editor of the black weekly ...
    Date of birth: November 1863
    Date of death: 1903
    Age: 39 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    Ophelia Clenlans
    American activist and journalist
    Ophelia Clenlans
    Overview: Ophelia Clenlans (c. 1841 – February 12, 1907) was a civil rights activist and journalist from Omaha, Nebraska.
    Date of birth: 1841
    Date of death: 12 February 1907
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    Clubwomen 227T
    19th-century American women writers 1,226T
    Journalists from Nebraska 27T
  • 6.

    Aaron Manasses McMillan
    American politician
    Overview: Aaron Manasses McMillan (November 3, 1895 – June 1, 1980) was a medical missionary to Angola and a civic leader and legislator in Nebraska. He was elected to the Nebraska House of Representatives ...
    Date of birth: 3 November 1895
    Date of death: 1 June 1980
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Occupation: Activist
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    Baptist missionaries in Angola 1T
    Baptists from Arkansas 142T
    Activists from Nebraska 12T
  • 7.

    Bertha Calloway
    American, Curator
    Bertha Calloway
    Overview: Bertha Calloway (born c.1925?) is an African-American community activist and historian in North Omaha, Nebraska. The founder of the Negro History Society and the Great Plains Black History Museum, Calloway ...
    Date of birth: 14 July 1925
    Date of death: 25 November 2017
    Age: 92 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Curator
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    Women museum directors 133T
    20th-century philanthropists 1,966T
    2017 deaths 9,371T
  • 8.

    Joe Coe
    African American lynching victim
    Overview: Joe Coe, also known as George Smith, was an African-American laborer who was lynched on October 18, 1891 in Omaha, Nebraska. Overwhelmed by a mob of one thousand at the Douglas County Courthouse, the twelve ...
    Date of death: 1891
    Nationality: American,American
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    History of racism in Nebraska 2T
    1891 murders in the United States 4T
    October 1891 events 4T
  • 9.

    Clarence W. Wigington
    American architect
    Clarence W. Wigington
    Overview: Clarence Wesley "Cap" Wigington (1883-1967) was an American architect who grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. After winning three first prizes in charcoal, pencil, and pen and ink at an art competition during ...
    Date of birth: 21 April 1883
    Date of death: 7 July 1967
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Architect
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    Omaha Central High School alumni 48T
    Architects from Saint Paul, Minnesota 16T
    Artists from Omaha, Nebraska 43T
  • 10.

    Alfonza W. Davis
    American World War II pilot
    Overview: Alfonza W. Davis (November 23, 1919 – October 30, 1945) was the first African-American aviator from North Omaha, Nebraska, to be awarded his "wings." He was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, a recipient ...
    Date of birth: 23 November 1919
    Date of death: 30 July 1945
    Age: 25 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Military
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    United States Army Air Forces personnel killed in World War II 94T
    Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1945 36T
    African-American aviators 88T
  • 11.

    George Wells Parker
    American journalist
    George Wells Parker
    Overview: George Wells Parker (September 18, 1882 – July 28, 1931) was an African-American political activist and writer who co-founded the Hamitic League of the World.
    Date of birth: 18 September 1882
    Date of death: 28 July 1931
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Occupation: Activist
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    Politicians from Omaha, Nebraska 118T
    African-American newspapers published in Omaha, Nebraska 14T
    Journalists from Nebraska 27T
  • 12.

    Ernie Chambers
    American politician
    Ernie Chambers
    Overview: Ernest William Chambers (born July 10, 1937) is an American politician and civil rights activist who represents North Omaha's 11th District in the Nebraska State Legislature.
    Date of birth: 10 July 1937
    Age: 87
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    African-American state legislators in Nebraska 4T
    Creighton University School of Law alumni 43T
    Politicians from Omaha, Nebraska 118T
  • 13.
    Overview: Arthur B. McCaw (August 1, 1905 - May 11, 1985) was a civil servant and civil rights activist active in Nebraska and as a United States Federal employee. He was the first black person to achieve a cabinet ...
    Date of birth: 1 August 1905
    Date of death: 11 May 1985
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Occupation: Activist
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  • 14.
    Overview: Comfort Baker (born c. 1869) was a teacher in the American South and was the first African American to graduate from a High School in Omaha, Nebraska.
    Date of birth: 1869
    Age: 155
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Educator
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  • 15.

    Edwin R. Overall
    American abolitionist, civil rights activist, civil servant & politician (1835-1901)
    Edwin R. Overall
    Overview: Edwin R. Overall aka Edwin R. Williams (August 25, 1835 – July 31, 1901) was an abolitionist, civil rights activist, civil servant, and politician in Chicago and Omaha. In the 1850s and 1860s, he ...
    Date of birth: 25 August 1835
    Date of death: 31 July 1901
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    Knights of Labor people 28T
    Politicians from Omaha, Nebraska 118T
    American anti-lynching activists 32T
  • 16.

    George F. Franklin
    American journalist
    Overview: George F. Franklin (February 1852 – 1901) was a journalist and civic leader in Omaha, Nebraska and Denver, Colorado. He owned and published two African-American newspapers, The Enterprise in Omaha and ...
    Date of birth: February 1852
    Date of death: 1901
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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    Cyrus D. Bell
    American journalist
    Overview: Cyrus Dicks Bell (August 1848 - October 21, 1925) was a journalist, civil rights activist, and civic leader in Omaha, Nebraska. He owned and edited the black newspaper Afro-American Sentinel during the ...
    Date of birth: August 1848
    Date of death: 21 October 1925
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Journalist
    Gender: Male
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    African-American newspapers published in Omaha, Nebraska 14T
    Journalists from Nebraska 27T
    American male journalists 4,321T
  • 18.

    Thomas P. Mahammitt
    American journalist
    Overview: Thomas P. Mahammitt (August 1862 – March 28, 1950) was a journalist, caterer, civil rights activist, and civic leader from Omaha Nebraska. He was owner and editor for the black weekly, The Enterprise ...
    Date of birth: August 1862
    Date of death: 28 March 1950
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Occupation: Activist
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  • 19.
    Overview: Sarah Helen Bradley Toliver Mahammitt (c.1873 – November 26, 1956) was a caterer, chef and author of cookbooks in Omaha, Nebraska. She studied at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris 1927 and sought to bring formal ...
    Date of birth: 1873
    Date of death: 26 November 1956
    Age: 83 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
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    Women cookbook writers 359T
    American cookbook writers 233T
    African-American writers 887T
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    John Albert Williams
    American journalist
    Overview: John Albert Williams (February 28, 1866 – February 4, 1933) was a minister, journalist, and political activist in Omaha, Nebraska. He was born to an escaped slave and spoke from the pulpit and the new ...
    Date of birth: 28 February 1866
    Date of death: 4 February 1933
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Occupation: Journalist
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