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Malcolm Little was born at University of Nebraska at Omaha Hospital on May 19, 1925, to Earl and Louise Little. Earl Little was a Christian minister and active in the local community. In his autobiography, Malcolm X stated that his family left Omaha for Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1926 because of threats from the Ku Klux Klan.
Crane Junior College, the first city college in Chicago, was founded in 1911 to be a junior college for the graduates of the nearby Crane High School.During the Great Depression, the financially strapped Chicago Board of Education considered closing the school but after arguments from Clarence Darrow, it remained open as the Theodore Herzl Junior College, named for the founder of the modern ...
The earliest institution of higher education promoted in the Omaha-area came from promoters of the Town of Saratoga located around present-day North 24th and Grand Streets in Omaha. The Saratogans won a charter from the Nebraska Territorial Legislature to establish Nebraska University. However, their proposal was delayed in the Legislature, and ...
The Malcolm X Memorial Foundation is a non-profit organization, headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, working to perpetuate the leadership and contributions of El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz towards social justice. [1] Founded by Rowena Moore, the organization is located on the site of Malcolm's first home in Omaha at 3448 Pinkney Street.
The M.E. Smith Building, formerly part of the Jobbers Canyon Historic District. A 1900 street scene including the Old Post Office. A 1910 postcard shows the historic columns at the front entrance of Omaha's Burlington Station. Current entrance to the historic Ford Hospital in Midtown Omaha. Omaha Public Library building, built in 1894 in ...
Collins' mother Ella also lived in the house when Malcolm X was there, from 1941 to 1944. In the 1990's it was nearly sold, saved in part by Boston Mayor Tom Menino who turned it into a national ...
The area comprising modern-day North Omaha is home to a variety of important examples of popular turn-of-the-20th-century architecture, ranging from Thomas Rogers Kimball's Spanish Renaissance Revival-style St. Cecilia Cathedral at 701 N. 40th Street to the Prairie School style of St. John's A.M.E. Church designed by Frederick S. Stott at 2402 N. 22nd Street. [1]
(1916) Melrose Apartments, 602 N. 33rd St., North Omaha; listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 and designated an Omaha Landmark in 1982 (1905) Ernie Chambers Court (formerly Strehlow Terrace), 2024 and 2107 N. 16th Street, North Omaha; listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986; Malcolm X House Site, North Omaha