Learn about the collaboration between the Great Plains Black History Museum and UNO’s Criss Library that is expanding access to the Museum’s archival collection. The new grant project is arranging and describing the Museum’s 115 cubic foot archival collection, which includes documents, photographs, records of the museum, and other material dating from 1870 to 2015 that shares the history of the Black community in Omaha, Nebraska, and more broadly in the Great Plains. The archival material was gathered by the Museum’s founder Mrs. Bertha Calloway and subsequent Museum staff and volunteers. Museum and Library staff will provide an overview of the Great Plains Black History Museum, the archives, and the two-year project. 

The brown bag is free and open to the public via Zoom. Advance registration is required.  

This program is part of Access to the Archives of the Great Plains Black History Museum, a joint grant project of the Great Plains Black History Museum and Criss Library supported by the National Archives' National Historical Publications and Records Commission. 

Contact: Amy Schindler by email at acschindler@unomaha.edu or by phone at 402.554.6046.