Lunch + Learn: Great Plains Black History Museum

Eric L. Ewing, Executive Director of the Great Plains Black History Museum, will speak with Preston Love Jr. about the civil rights movement in Omaha, then and now. Love is the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Urban Development and Professor of African-American Experience in Politics at the University of Nebraska Omaha. As part of All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy, this lunch + learn explores 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.

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Watch the recording of part one with Eric L. Ewing and Matt Holland on the DePorres Club, an early pioneer organization in the Civil Rights Movement in Omaha.

Image: National Guard troops lined Beale Street during a protest on March 29, 1968. “I was in every march, all of ’em, with that sign: I AM A MAN,” recalls former sanitation worker Ozell Ueal. (Bettmman Collection / Getty Images).