Every morning Karen Gamble flips on the lights in the old worship hall and glances to her left at a black banner reading: “Who is the most famous person from Omaha, NE?”
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State senators capitalized on Malcolm X’s induction into the Nebraska Hall of Fame this May to secure the grant. After years of unsuccessful attempts, longtime State Sen. Ernie Chambers said he never thought he’d “see a white conservative Republican governor, in a white ultra-conservative state like Nebraska” honor Malcolm X, its only Black inductee.
“I think this is the house that his family lived in,” Moore’s sister told her of the demolished home after reading Malcolm X’s autobiography.In 1924, her father moved the family here from Oklahoma to work at the meatpacking houses. During World War II, Moore organized strikes to force the packing houses to hire Black women.
What money the Malcolm X Foundation did have went toward a fence to keep people from dumping trash there and replacing its homemade sign when it was stolen and defaced. Under different circumstances, Malcolm X would have led people in Omaha, Parks imagines. Instead she and others planned protests, lawsuits and voting drives, listening to his speeches on cassettes so often his words melted into the worn tape.
As the grant languished, LeFlore-Ejike contemplated another long-held dream: getting Malcolm X into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. He’d been nominated and passed over twice. “Why bother?” LeFlore-Ejike wondered of a third proposal. But giving up wasn’t an option.This time it worked. The bust was unveiled in May to a crowd that included Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of the slain Civil Rights leader. Gov. Jim Pillen recognized Malcolm X’s birthday.
“That actually impressed me,” said Simpson, now the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation’s policy fellow. “I was like, ‘Well, gosh, if this one little skinny Black man can bring out all these law enforcement then I must be with the right people.’”He first came to the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation to build a community garden. Then he attended meetings and learned its story.
Liwaru did and OPS fired him not long after. Unable to find a job, he moved to Portland for a similar position.
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