Making Invisible History Visible with Spatial Justice

6400 University Drive South,Omaha NE 68182

05 April, 2023

Description

Kristine Gerber, Program Manager of Making Invisible Histories Visible, will showcase OPS and UNO student research documenting the history of North Omaha.  In Summer 2022, OPS students and teachers along with UNO students spent a week researching and mapping more than 400 homes and businesses in North Omaha from the 1950-60's. The students used ArcGIS software. city directories, Sanborn maps, aerial photographs, historic images and oral history interviews. Their research uncovered the thriving African American and Jewish communities before the racial riots and documented how disinvestment in the community changed the landscape.  Sposored by the Omaha Spatial Justice Project, the Geography and Geology Department and the Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies.