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The May 31 protests included recognition of Omaha resident, James Scurlock, who was murdered at a protest in Omaha the previous night. Small groups of protesters continued to gather throughout the first week of June. [12] Protests were ongoing as of June 8, when 75 people demonstrated downtown in the afternoon. [13]
On May 30, 2020, around 11:00 pm, James Scurlock and a group of protestors were in the Old Market area of Omaha, Nebraska, during the George Floyd protests. [8] During the protest, Scurlock was filmed vandalizing inside a building, including exterior windows and interior office spaces.
Thousands of protesters gathered at 72nd and Dodge to protest the murder of George Floyd. They were attacked by police with physical force, tear gas, and rubber bullets. Protesters were driven into downtown Omaha, where a Black man named James Scurlock was killed by a white bar owner in an alleged act of self-defense, prolonging the riots. The ...
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Jacob Gardner, 38, was scheduled to return to Omaha that evening to hand himself over after a grand jury indicted him last week, attorney Stu Dornan said at a press conference Sunday. Gardner, who ...
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.
The Omaha Bus Boycott was led by the DePorres Club, including Mildred Brown, who extolled readers of the Omaha Star stating "Don’t ride Omaha’s buses or streetcars. If you must ride, protest by using 18 pennies." Focusing on ending the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company's policy of not hiring black drivers, the boycott was ...
The Omaha Race Riot occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, September 28–29, 1919.The race riot resulted in the lynching of Will Brown, a black civilian; the death of two white rioters; the injuries of many Omaha Police Department officers and civilians, including the attempted hanging of Mayor Edward Parsons Smith; and a public rampage by thousands of white rioters who set fire to the Douglas County ...