North Omaha History
North Omaha History

Author: Adam Fletcher Sasse

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9781539973614

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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.

My Omaha Obsession
My Omaha Obsession

Author: Miss Cassette

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2020-11

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 149622471X

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My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some of Omaha’s neighborhoods, buildings, architecture, and people, celebrating the city’s unusual history. Rather than covering the city’s best-known sites, Miss Cassette is irresistibly drawn to strange little buildings and glorious large homes that don’t exist anymore as well as to stories of Harkert’s Holsum Hamburgers and the Twenties Club. Piecing together the records of buildings and homes and everything interesting that came after, Miss Cassette shares her observations of the property and its significance to Omaha. She scrutinizes land deeds, insurance maps, tax records, and old newspaper articles to uncover a property’s singular story. Through conversations with fellow detectives and history enthusiasts, she guides readers along her path of hunches, personal interests, mishaps, and more. As a longtime resident of Omaha, Miss Cassette is informed by memories of her youth combined with an enduring curiosity about the city’s offbeat relics and remains. Part memoir and part research guide with a healthy dose of colorful wandering, My Omaha Obsession celebrates the historic built environment and searches for the people who shaped early Omaha.

Secret Omaha: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Secret Omaha: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

Author: Ryan Roenfeld

Publisher: Reedy Press LLC

Published: 2021-05-15

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1681063069

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How did Omaha get its nickname, “The Gateway to the West” and where can you gawk at the footsteps of the first human to walk in space? Just scratch the surface of a city best known for Warren Buffett, college baseball, and a great zoo and find far more than meets the eye. And Secret Omaha: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure is just the book you’ll need to uncover all the stories of Nebraska’s lone metropolis. Omaha rises up out of the low broken bluffs along the west bank of the Missouri River and sprawls west across what was once the prairie grasslands of the Great Plains. The buffalo wallows have been replaced by a more urban mix of grit and gentrification, with tree-lined avenues, boulevards, and varied communities that hold on to their heritage for generations. There’s a giant fork in Little Italy and stories told in stone around what was the world’s largest livestock market. There’s an old blues song by Big Joe Williams about an Omaha intersection that’s now on the National Register, and Irish Nationalists erected a grand monument to the Fenian who invaded Canada twice. Anyone in Omaha can take a gander at Goose Hollow or visit a haven for herons, but now author and Omaha enthusiast Ryan Roenfeld takes you on your own behind-the-scenes tour of the Big O. With his book as your guide, you’ll discover a whole new side to the city that’s inspired him for years.

Omaha's Easter Tornado of 1913
Omaha's Easter Tornado of 1913

Author: Travis Linn Sing

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738531847

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On Sunday, March 23, 1913, the burgeoning city of Omaha, Nebraska, fell victim to one of the worst tornado disasters in American history. Downtown was spared, but the fashionable neighborhoods of the city's western fringe and the ethnic neighborhoods of north Omaha were destroyed. Over 100 lives were lost, and millions of dollars in property damage was done. Photographers descended upon Omaha, rendering astonishing images of the storm's aftermath. This book uses nearly 200 of those photographs, many of which are drawn from the Durham Western Heritage Museum archives, to document the tornado's path of destruction, as well as stories of survival, compassion, reconstruction, and the remarkable unity and resilience of the Omaha community.

North Omaha History
North Omaha History

Author: Adam Fletcher Sasse

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-10-15

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9781539578635

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This book features powerful content about the rich, diverse history of a predominantly low-income, African American community in the Midwest. It includes stories about individuals, events, and places that made the community awesome and continue to influence it more than 150 years after it was founded.

24th and Glory
24th and Glory

Author: Dirk Chatelain

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781732231757

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In 1968, Bob Gibson was in the middle of one of the most dominant pitching performances in World Series history, but he wasn't the only North Omahan on the sports page.That first week of October, one native son led the NFL in rushing. Another averaged 22 points per game in the NBA. One was about to begin a 17,000-point pro basketball career. Another was about to break football's most stubborn racial barrier. One - a future Heisman Trophy winner - broke Friday night records.They all came from the same parks and gyms. The same schools and coaches.They rose out of segregation - higher and higher - as racial tensions in North Omaha boiled hotter and hotter."24th & Glory: The intersection of civil rights and Omaha's greatest generation of athletes" from award-winning World-Herald staff writer Dirk Chatelain tells the story behind one incredible neighborhood that produced so many world-class athletes.

Two Crows Denies it
Two Crows Denies it

Author: Robert Harrison Barnes

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780803262546

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In Two Crows Denies It, R. H. Barnes undertakes an ambitious historical analysis of anthropological scholarship about Omaha kinship systems. His groundbreaking work offers a critique of this established scholarship, including the work of Lävi-Strauss, Dorsey, and Fletcher. In comparing the primary and secondary accounts of Omaha descent, relationship, and naming systems, Barnes reveals the dissonance between the reality of Omaha society and the scholarship that has formed around it. Not only does he put forth a new and more realistic interpretation of Omaha sociology specifically, but in so doing he provides a reinterpretation of an aspect of anthropological theory. This edition includes a new introduction by Raymond J. DeMallie.

Detrimental Reliance
Detrimental Reliance

Author: Matthew Stelly

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-09-03

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9781727831023

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Let me begin by saying from the outset that "detrimental reliance" is the fault of those doing the relying, not necessarily the ones who created and fostered the reliance with a history of lies and trickery. As the saying goes, "Fool me once, it's on you; fool me twice, it's on me." Black people in Omaha, as in many parts of the country, have grown (read: been programmed) to believe in the white race and that it is "changing" and that race relations "are improving." These idiots come to these conclusions because of a mass media campaign that allows them to see black and white kids playing together at school, black men kissing on white bitches, and black people walking around in expensive suits and driving expensive cars. All this, despite the fact that racial and residential segregation remain as pervasive as ever and the racial gap between blacks and whites is actually widening. This then, serves as the ideological basis for what I view as "detrimental reliance" on the part of black people, a "syndrome" that only serves to muddy the waters that prevent clear and coherent racial analyses and discussions from taking place. In sum the white people have a view that is imposed on those who they appoint and hire to serve as "black leadership." As a result, the black masses think that they have a perspective being presented when in reality, what is being offered up by these coons posing as black people is nothing more than scripted statements and actions laid out by their white masters. Because of this "relationship." Detrimental reliance" is the key. Before moving on, functional and operational definitions of what constitutes 'detrimental alliance' is provided once the variable of "race" is interjected. And as I hope to show, it all begins during the formative years with those "fairy tales" that boost white self-concept and promote the consequent debasement of the black child's self-esteem. I will show how this is done and continues on through life.

#OmahaBlackHistory
#OmahaBlackHistory

Author: Adam Fletcher Sasse

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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This book focuses on historical Black experiences in Omaha extending from 1804 to 2000. It offers hundreds of vignettes about the people, places, events, organizations, and other historical aspects that can give readers more complete picture of the city's history, and Midwestern American history in general. Offering a unique viewpoint on the effects of racism, readers can also get a better sense of Black freedom struggle in Omaha and the vital role played by African Americans in Omaha towards achieving justice and maintaining freedom. This book shows how Omaha owes it's Black citizens a debt of gratitude for centuries of literally building the city from the ground up. Featuring seven chapters covering quarter-century spans of the city's history, #OmahaBlackHistory dives deep into notable people from Omaha's African American community, including politicians, ministers, businesspeople, community leaders, and others. Many of these stories have been lost to time, unaccounted for in other history books and largely neglected by Omaha historians. Various events are identified and detailed, including fairs, festivals, and celebrations; lynchings, murders, and riots; and weddings, birthdays, and funerals. Forgotten yet important places are uncovered, and lost addresses are revealed. Perhaps most vital is the way the book illustrates the connectivity between all of these elements and several others, and how the rest of the city has reacted to white supremacy, racism, and other issues central to Black history in Omaha. This book is for people who are yearning for the real history of Omaha, Nebraska. It is not glossy, it does not cover general Omaha history, and it does not contextualize a lot of what happened in the nearly 200 years included. However, it offers a uniquely substantial viewpoint that isn't covered otherwise. Author Adam Fletcher Sasse is an independent historian whose other writing includes North Omaha History Volumes 1, 2, and 3; Drawing North Omaha; and more than 500 articles on NorthOmahaHistory.com.