Creighton Preparatory School is a private,Jesuit high school for boys in Omaha,Nebraska,United States. It was established in 1878 under the name Creighton College and is located in the Archdiocese of Omaha. Creighton College was founded by John A. Creighton and named after Edward Creighton,developer of the transcontinental telegraph line. It was founded from a $100,000 grant and donated to the Catholic Church,leading to its inception as a Jesuit institution. Creighton College separated into Creighton University and Creighton Preparatory School in 1958. Over the 142 years since its founding,Creighton Prep has grown from an initial class of 120 students to a student body of 1021 individuals (2016).
Ernest William Chambers is an American politician and civil rights activist who represented North Omaha's 11th District in the Nebraska State Legislature from 1971 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2021. He could not run in 2020 due to term limits.
Roman Lee Hruska was an American attorney and politician who served as a Republican U.S. senator from the state of Nebraska. Hruska was known as one of the most vocal conservatives in the Senate during the 1960s and 1970s.
David Kemp Karnes was an American politician,businessman,and attorney. He was a United States Senator from Nebraska from 1987 to 1989,and was president and chief executive officer of The Fairmont Group Incorporated,a merchant banking/consulting company with offices in Omaha and the District of Columbia. Karnes also served in an "of counsel" capacity to the national law firm of Kutak Rock and practiced out of the firm's Omaha,Nebraska and Washington,D.C. offices. Karnes was also involved in numerous civic,educational,and charitable organizations both in Nebraska and nationally.
John Joseph Cavanaugh III is an American politician and lawyer from Nebraska. From 1977 until 1981,he served in the U.S. House of representatives from Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district,and is the only living former Democrat in the state to be elected to the House of Representatives.
John E. Nelson is an American politician who served as the 40th lieutenant governor of Nebraska from September 29,2014 to January 8,2015 under Governor Dave Heineman. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Steve Lathrop is an American attorney and Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. From 2007 to 2015,he served as a member of the Nebraska Legislature,representing an Omaha-area district.
The civil rights movement in Omaha,Nebraska,has roots that extend back until at least 1912. With a history of racial tension that starts before the founding of the city,Omaha has been the home of numerous overt efforts related to securing civil rights for African Americans since at least the 1870s.
Racial tension in Omaha,Nebraska occurred mostly because of the city's volatile mixture of high numbers of new immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and African-American migrants from the Deep South. While racial discrimination existed at several levels,the violent outbreaks were within working classes. Irish Americans,the largest and earliest immigrant group in the 19th century,established the first neighborhoods in South Omaha. All were attracted by new industrial jobs,and most were from rural areas. There was competition among ethnic Irish,newer European immigrants,and African-American migrants from the South,for industrial jobs and housing. They all had difficulty adjusting to industrial demands,which were unmitigated by organized labor in the early years. Some of the early labor organizing resulted in increasing tensions between groups,as later arrivals to the city were used as strikebreakers. In Omaha as in other major cities,racial tension has erupted at times of social and economic strife,often taking the form of mob violence as different groups tried to assert power. Much of the early violence came out of labor struggles in early 20th century industries:between working class ethnic whites and immigrants,and blacks of the Great Migration. Meatpacking companies had used the latter for strikebreakers in 1917 as workers were trying to organize. As veterans returned from World War I,both groups competed for jobs. By the late 1930s,however,interracial teams worked together to organize the meatpacking industry under the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA). Unlike the AFL and some other industrial unions in the CIO,UPWA was progressive. It used its power to help end segregation in restaurants and stores in Omaha,and supported the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Women labor organizers such as Tillie Olsen and Rowena Moore were active in the meatpacking industry in the 1930s and 1940s,respectively.
Scott Alan Lautenbaugh was an American politician from the state of Nebraska. He served in the Nebraska Legislature from 2007 to 2014,representing Omaha-based district 18.
Creighton University School of Law,located in Omaha,Nebraska,United States,is part of the Jesuit Creighton University.
Jeremiah J. Nordquist is a politician from the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. Nordquist represented an Omaha district in the Nebraska Legislature from 2009 to 2015. He served in the Unicameral as a member of the Democratic Party,but is now a registered Non-Partisan.
Robert J. Krist is an American politician who served as the Nebraska State Senator from the 10th district from 2009 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party until 2017,his district includes Bennington and part of Omaha. Krist joined the Democratic Party in 2018;he was its nominee for Governor of Nebraska in the 2018 election.
James Darrell McFarland was an American football player,lawyer,and politician.
Burke Harr is a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. Harr was a member of the Nebraska Legislature,in which he represented the 8th legislative district in Omaha,consisting of the midtown neighborhoods of Dundee and Benson and the neighborhoods that surround Creighton Preparatory School. Harr was barred from reelection in 2018 due to term limits.
Mabel Gillespie was a farmer,teacher,journalist,and politician in Nebraska. In 1925,she was the first woman to be elected as a Nebraska state legislator when she served the first of her six terms. She was the first female reporter in Nebraska to work the general news beat,working for the Omaha Bee from 1916 to 1919. She had three failed campaigns for congress and served on the platform committee at the Democratic National Convention in 1940.
Anthony Vargas is an American politician and former educator serving as a member of the Nebraska Legislature. Vargas represents the 7th district,which covers all of downtown Omaha and much of southeastern Omaha.
Michael HilgersSr. is an American businessman,lawyer and politician who is the Nebraska Attorney General. He previously served as a Republican member of the Nebraska Legislature,representing the 21st district from 2017 to 2023. Hilgers was the speaker of the Nebraska Legislature from 2021 to 2023.
Therese M. Terlaje is a Guamanian politician and attorney. A member of the Democratic Party,Terlaje has served as a member of the Legislature of Guam since 2017,and as Speaker of the Guam Legislature in 2021.
D. Paul Hartnett was a member of the Nebraska Legislature for 20 years from 1985 to 2005.
