DePorres Club

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The DePorres Club was an early pioneer organization in the

civil rights activists throughout the nation in the 1960s."[1] The club was an affiliate of CORE.[2]

History

The DePorres Club was formed in 1947 by a group of African American high school students and white college students who worked with Rev. John Markoe of

Eppley Air Field for not hiring black workers.[5]

The group met at Creighton until it became too controversial and was asked to move off campus.

Near North Side neighborhood four years before the Montgomery bus boycott.[8]

Aside from its activism, the club regularly held other activities, as well. They staged events to raise funds, had their own dances and picnics. They painted houses for poor families and stuffed acres of envelopes.[9]

In the following years the club hosted a community center called the Omaha DePorres Center to meet the needs of low-income families, and eventually started branches in Denver and Kansas City.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ Taylor, Q. (2007) The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed - Timeline. Seattle: University of Washington.
  2. ^ Nugent, W.T.K. and Ridge, M. (1999) The American West: The Reader. Indiana University Press. p 298.
  3. ^ "In search for saints in our time" Archived 2007-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Creighton University. Retrieved 12/4/07.
  4. ^ Amy Helene Forss, "Mildred Brown and the De Porres Club: Collective Activism in Omaha, Nebraska’s, Near North Side, 1947-1960,” Nebraska History, 91 (2010): 190-205.[usurped]
  5. ^ Forss, A.H. "Shining Star" Archived 2008-10-10 at the Wayback Machine, Omaha Reader. 25 June 2008. Retrieved 8/2/08.
  6. ^ "A Street of Dreams," Nebraska Public Media. Air Date, 08/01/1994. Retrieved April 8, 2024.
  7. ^ Graves, S. (2004) Black history strong at Creighton, Archived 2007-02-28 at the Wayback Machine The Creightonian Online. 83(18).
  8. ^ "" Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Winter: The magazine of Creighton University. 12;2. Winter 1995-96. p 5.
  9. ^ "" Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Winter: The magazine of Creighton University. 12;2. Winter 1995-96. p 8.
  10. ^ (n.d.)Mildred Brown Archived 2014-06-06 at the Wayback Machine Nebraska Studies.

External links

  • Interview with Dennis Holland, Nebraska Black Oral History Project, digitized by Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska at Omaha Libraries; original held by History Nebraska.
  • Interview with Bertha Calloway, Nebraska Black Oral History Project, digitized by Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska at Omaha Libraries; original held by History Nebraska.
  • Interview with Dorothy Eure, Nebraska Black Oral History Project, digitized by Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska at Omaha Libraries; original held by History Nebraska.
  • "A Timeline of the DePorres Club" by Adam Fletcher Sasse for NorthOmahaHistory.com.
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