The Omaha World-Herald is a daily newspaper in the midwestern United States,the primary newspaper of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. It was locally owned from its founding in 1885 until 2020,when it was sold to the newspaper chain Lee Enterprises by its most recent local owner,Warren Buffett,chairman of Omaha-based Berkshire Hathaway.
The Liberty Cup is a trophy awarded to the winner of the college football game between Columbia University and Fordham University,two National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I football programs in New York City. The cup was awarded annually from 2002 to 2015,but the two teams have not met since then.
The Miss Nebraska's Teen competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the U.S. state of Nebraska in the Miss America's Teen pageant.
The Omaha Daily Bee was a leading Republican newspaper that was active in the late 19th and early 20th century. The paper's editorial slant frequently pitted it against the Omaha Herald,the Omaha Republican and other local papers. After a 1927 merger,it was published as the Bee-News until folding in 1937.
Larry Donovan is an American former gridiron football coach. He served as head football coach at the University of Montana from 1980 to 195 and as head coach for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League from 1987 to 1989. Donovan's coaching career spanned 52 years,working with teams in the United States,Canada,and Japan.
Millard Filmore Singleton was an African-American political leader and civil servant in Omaha Nebraska. He was an officer in the Omaha Colored Republican Club and the Omaha branch of the National Afro-American League. He held posts as Justice of the Peace,storekeeper in the United States Internal Revenue Service,recorder of deeds for the city,and as bailiff of the municipal court.
John Albert Williams was a minister,journalist,and political activist in Omaha,Nebraska. He was born to an escaped slave and spoke from the pulpit and the newspapers on issues of civil rights,equality,and racial harmony. He was a highly respected minister,journalist,and civic leader. He served on many committees and boards among Omaha's black community and in the Omaha and Nebraska Episcopal Church.
Alfred S. Barnett was an American journalist and civil rights activist in Omaha,Nebraska,Des Moines,Iowa,and Chicago,Illinois. In Des Moines,Barnett created and ran the newspaper,The Weekly Avalanche from 1891 to 1894. Before moving to Des Moines,he contributed to his brother,Ferdinand L. Barnett's Omaha paper,The Progress. He worked for civil rights also a member and an officer of numerous civil rights organizations,including the Nebraska branch of the National Afro-American League and the Afro-American Protective Association of Iowa. Barnett was described as a "pleasing speaker".
John Grant Pegg was a political and civil leader in Omaha,Nebraska. He was a leader in the local African-American community and was the city inspector of weights and measures from 1906 until his death in 1916.
Henry Vinton Plummer,Jr. was an American lawyer,real estate agent,civil rights activist,and black nationalist. In the 1920s he became involved in Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA),leading the organizations publicity and propaganda wings,Garvey's secret service,and its militia.
Zanzye Herterzena A. Hill was Nebraska’s first African American female lawyer.
The 1914 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on November 3,1914.
The 1912 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on November 5,1912.
The 1908 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on November 3,1908.
The 1904 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1904.
The 1900 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on November 6,1900.
The 1898 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1898. Incumbent Populist Governor Silas A. Holcomb did not stand for re-election. Populist and Democratic fusion nominee William A. Poynter defeated Republican nominee Monroe Hayward with 50.19% of the vote.
African Americans in Nebraska or Black Nebraskans are residents of the state of Nebraska who are of African American ancestry. With history in Nebraska from the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the Civil War,emancipation,the Reconstruction era,resurgence of white supremacy with the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow Laws,the Civil Right movement,into current times,African Americans have contributed vastly to the economics,culture,and substance of the state.
