Mildred Dee Brown (1905 89) was the cofounder of Nebraska s Omaha Star, the longest running black newspaper founded by an African American woman in the United States. Known for her trademark white carnation corsage, Brown was the matriarch of Omaha s Near North Side a historically black part of town and an iconic city leader. Her remarkable life, a product of the Reconstruction era and Jim Crow, reflects a larger American history that includes the Great Migration, the Red Scare of the post World War era, civil rights and black power movements, desegregation, and urban...
Mildred Dee Brown (1905 89) was the cofounder of Nebraska s Omaha Star, the longest running black newspaper founded by an African American w...
