Lunch + Learn: Great Plains Black History Museum

Eric L. Ewing, Executive Director of the Great Plains Black History Museum, will speak with Matt Holland about the DePorres Club, an early pioneer organization in the Civil Rights Movement in Omaha. Holland is the author of “Ahead of Their Time: The Story of the Omaha DePorres Club.” As part of All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy, this series of lunch + learns explore themes in artist Glenn Ligon's Condition Report D, which incorporates the I AM A MAN phrase from the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike of 1968. Learn more about the Great Plains Black History Museum at gpblackhistorymuseum.org.

RSVP: This event is virtual only. RSVP for Zoom details.

Lunch + Learn: Great Plains Black History Museum is a two-part series. Join us on September 7 for part two with Preston Love, Jr. about the civil rights movement in Omaha, then and now.

Image: Omaha DePorres Club on the steps of the Creighton University Admin Building in January 1948; far left row: Ola McCraney, Denny Holland, Louise Riese, Eleanor Ortman, Raymond Metoyer, Walter Sulka, These Henderson; second from left row, bottom to top: Fr. John Markoe, S.J., Peggy Fitten, Margaret Miraskey, Fay Lee, Bill Reid, Claude Miller; third from left row, bottom to top: Donald Butler, Mildred Heifner, Regina Luca, Mary Frederick, Mary Jo Schutz, Jack Mulhall; far right row, bottom to top: Bertha Calloway, Mary Anne Locke, Ted Johnson, Virginia Frederick, Anthony Caradori. Image courtesy of Creighton University, Matt Holland, and Great Plains Black History Museum.