For some, the Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska evolved towards black nationalism, as the Black Panther Party was involved in tensions in the late 1960s.

The annual Omaha Blues, Jazz, & Gospel Festival celebrates local music along with the Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame.

* 2005 Inducted into the Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame

The Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad was built after the discovery of gold in the Black Hills in South Dakota ; it ran from the Omaha area up the Elkhorn valley, then across northern Nebraska and into South Dakota.

The Omaha, Niobrara, and Black Hills branch of the Union Pacific ran north from the railroad's main line at Duncan to Norfolk ; it reached the city in 1880.

When the Union Pacific developed its subsidiary Omaha, Niobrara and Black Hills Railroad, he directed that it cross the Loup River at Lost Creek, the site of present-day Oconee, then run south to join the Union Pacific's main line at Jackson ( since renamed Duncan ), bypassing Columbus.

Jackson was chosen in 1879 as the southern terminus of the Omaha, Niobrara, and Black Hills Railroad, a Union Pacific subsidiary, purportedly because Jay Gould was angry at Columbus for promoting a rival railroad in the region.

In the following year, an ice jam destroyed the Omaha, Niobrara, and Black Hills Railroad bridge across the Loup River ; the line was later moved to branch off the main line of the Union Pacific at Columbus.

" Omaha " the Cat Dancer was nominated for Eisner Awards for Best Continuing Series, Best Black-and-White Series, and Best Writer / Artist in 1989 ; in 1991, the series received Eisner Awards for Best Black and White Series and Best Writer.

Portions of the road were known as the Grant Highway, Black Hills Sioux Trail, and as part of the Omaha, Rosebud and Black Hills Highway and the Custer Battlefield Trail.

* Black history page on 1919-20 race riots, includes an extensive section on the Omaha riot

* Charles Miller ( educator ), inducted into the Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame in 2005

Sundown towns are mentioned in Following the Color Line, by Ray Stannard Baker ; Free But Not Equal, by V. Jacque Voegeli ; Black Ohio and the Color Line, by David Gerber ; The Negro in Indiana, by Emma Thornbrough ; Mobile Americans: Residential and Social Mobility in Omaha, by Howard Chudacoff ; Race and Kinship in a Midwestern Town, by James DeVries ; Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis ; The Sociogenesis of a Race Riot by Roberta Senechal.

It marched from Omaha, Nebraska and was to follow the Loup River in Nebraska westward to the Black Hills and meet up with Connor near the Powder River.

Some of its larger collections include sites at Omaha's Metropolitan Community College at Fort Omaha, Joslyn Castle, Swanson Science Park, the Blair Community Arboretum ( Steyer Park, Black Elk Park, and the Dana College campus ), Gilman Park Arboretum in Pierce, and Clemmons Park Arboretum in Fremont.

Thorpe has also been a member of the Houston Texans, Detroit Lions, Indianapolis Colts, Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Giants, Tennessee Titans, Winnipeg Blue Bombers, New York Sentinels, Omaha Nighthawks and Tijuana Flats Black Magic.

The Black Hawks also found themselves one game away from winning the 2007 Clark Cup, before they were downed 3-0 by the Sioux Falls Stampede in the championship game, and they found themselves in the same state in the 2008 Clark Cup Finals, losing 4-3 to the Omaha Lancers in overtime in the final game of the series.

Black enjoyed a spectacular start to 2007 placing 2nd for $ 100, 000 in the Pot Limit Omaha event and 3rd in the No Limit Main Event for $ 750, 000 at the Aussie Millions in Melbourne, Australia.

In 2007, Black won the Pot Limit Omaha side event at the Irish Open.

At the 2007 WSOP, Black finished in the money in two Pot Limit Omaha events, finishing 7th and 11th respectively.

The two men had been targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO ( Counter Intelligence Program ), which operated against and infiltrated anti-war and Civil Rights groups, including the Omaha Black Panthers.

In a 1990 BBC documentary about the case, the officer in charge of the investigation, Detective Jack Swanson, affirmed the Omaha Police Department's fear of the Black Panther Party: " We feel we got the two main players in Rice and Poindexter, and I think we did the right thing at the time, because the Black Panther Party ... completely disappeared from the city of Omaha ... and it's ... been the end of that sort of thing in the city of Omaha — and that's 21 years ago.

Category: Music of Omaha, Nebraska

* Download recording of a courtship song from the Library of Congress ' Omaha Indian Music Collection ; performed by George Miller in 1897, collected by Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche

Music of Omaha and other smaller parts of Nebraska has included a variety of country, jazz, blues, ragtime, rock and alternative rock musicians.

During these early years, some of Davis ' compositions that fell into the category of what was known as " New Age Music " were featured in a concert by the Voices of Mel Olson in the Witherspoon Hall of Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, with Davis directing the community chorale for those songs.

The recording has now been re-released on the NMC label, and there have been six further productions of Golem since 1989: Opera Omaha, 1990 ; Northern Stage ( UK Arts Council / Contemporary Music Network Tour ), 1991 ; Theater Dortmund, 1994 ; Aspen Festival, 2000 ; Neue Operbühne Berlin 2001 ; Opéra de Rennes and Angers Nantes Opéra, 2006.

* Music in Omaha, Nebraska

Category: Music of Omaha, Nebraska

Category: Music of Omaha, Nebraska

* Omaha Indian Music, Library of Congress.

The Civic Auditorium Music Hall, located on the east side of Omaha Civic Auditorium is used for concerts, Broadway shows, and other events.

* Music in Omaha

Category: Music venues in Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the birthplace of numerous important historical and modern sports figures, including 1960 Summer Olympics gold medalist and NBA star Bob Boozer ; Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Gibson ; 1989 American League Rookie of the Year Gregg Olson ; NFL running back Ahman Green ; Heisman Trophy winners Johnny Rodgers and Eric Crouch ; Pro Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers ; and champion tennis player Andy Roddick.

Rear Admiral John L. Hall, ( Commander Task Force 124, the " Omaha " Beach Assault Force ), strongly disapproved of the amount of air and naval bombardment used.

* 2000 Inducted into the High School Hall of Fame at Central High School in Omaha, Nebraska.

The Episcopal Church founded Brownell Hall, an all-girls secondary boarding school three miles north of Omaha in Saratoga.

In 1893, Abbott graduated from Brownell Hall, a girls ' boarding school in Omaha.

* Old City Hall ( Omaha, Nebraska )

The annual River City Roundup is celebrated at Fort Omaha, and the neighborhood of Florence celebrates its history during " Florence Days ".