1952 Newspaper Article Discussing Black Voting Power

1952 Newspaper Article Discussing Black Voting Power

Along with the thousands of African American migrants to the urban North during the mid-twentieth century came growing political power. Increasingly, black voters in the North could provide a meaningful margin in local, state and even national elections. This 1952 headline suggests that African American political power has much deeper roots in Nebraska than the more recent historic victory of Barack Obama as the nation’s first black president.

The American Record

Great Plains Black History Museum, North Omaha History Harvest, 2011

The American Record

1952

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