Omaha (Neb.)

Papers and Proceedings form the 6th Annual Conference of the Hadassah Mountain Plains Region held in Omaha, Nebraska in May 1952.

The file contains three letters in English and two in English. Two of the Yiddish letters are on Don Bercu and Sons and one letter is on letterhead for M. L. Friedmann, Grossrabiner from Romania. On the back of the Friedmann letter is hand-written in English "Children: You can have breakfast downstairs and I will be back about 8 or 8:30 for you, Daddy." Two letters are written from George Bercu to Olive Bercu in 1916.

Several unidentified men and women at a Farband Labor Zionist Order dinner. A banner hanging over the head table reads: ''Welcome Delegates [section in Hebrew]; Farband Labor Zionist Order District No. 7.''

Grandfather Schatz stands in front of a house with an unidentified man.

Folder contains one typed page of family history written by Josephine Lang Tanzer.

Ms. Danner recounts her experiences growing up in Oklahoma, and her life in Omaha starting in about 1917. She also discusses her brother, a Nebraska State senator.

Ms. Calloway grew up in Denver, CO, and worked in Washington D.C. She relates her involvement in civil rights activities from the 1940s through the 1960s, and in the creation of the Great Plains Black Museum in Omaha.

Mr. Hogan was born in Gordonsville, Virginia in 1942. He recounts his experiences growing up in Virginia, attending Boys Town, NE, and the St. Augustine Seminary in Mississippi, living in Omaha and his tenure as president of the Omaha NAACP.

Mr. Tyler recounts his experiences in Omaha and outstate Nebraska as an itinerant minister, starting in 1947, and doing oral history research in outstate Nebraska.

Mr. Eure was born in Omaha in 1950. He relates his involvement in the Omaha public schools (especially student activism at Central High School), in civil rights and anti-war activities, and in his work with the Afro Academy of Dramatic Arts in Omaha.