1936: Evangeline S. McAllister vs. the KKK

Friday, 1 May 2009, 6:00 | Category : Authors, Politics, Wink
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By Wink
On a Monday night in late June 1936 the KKK burned a cross on the lawn of a family in the tiny town of Minatare, Nebraska. Was it a black family? Nope, there were no blacks in Minatare at that time.
There were still plenty of people for the Klan to hate though: Mexicans, Indians, [...]

NE-02

Thursday, 6 November 2008, 7:00 | Category : Ike
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This election has been one of the biggest elections in U.S. history. President-elect Obama managed to take Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida, as well as Virginia and even losing by a relatively small margin in Texas. One of the biggest shocks to me, though, was Nebraska’s second district. With 9,000 absentee and early votes left [...]