Women, like the yellow wallpaper and it went on to create some of the first texts of women and gender studies movement in universities and now that every publisher publishs some feminist books at least we publish the most cutting edge, issues other publishers are not touching because they dont know to or too controversial so all our books have an urgency to them but also might have kind of new and cutting edge. Host what is your background . How did you get into this . Guest i am a journalist. I was born 45 years ago, a lot of feminists things happen. I have written six books, made two documentarys traveled the country speaking about feminisms all i know it is very mainstream. The word feminism is not the worst people would label but it probably is feminist or their belief system is often very feminist allies dont get hung up on the word, i love the title the feminist press. 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Today its nebraskas largest city with a population of over 400,000 people with Prominent Industries such as meat packing and insurance. With the help of our Cox CommunicationCable Partners well learn about its history from local authors. We begin with the ohama Deporres Club, group who fought against Racial Discrimination in the city. The ohama deperes club was this phenomenal story of onunlikely group of people in an unlikely place and an improbable time in history that faced and challenged Racial Discrimination and segregation in ohama nebraska, and it was it took place in the late 40s and early 50s, predate ago civil rights activities, if not be decade at least by years and it was a group that maybe defied the stereotype when you thing behalf civil rights group. It was men and women young people old people, black and white, held by two white men so this very wonderful story that has all these amazing connections in an unlikely place. The quote the birmingham of the north, was a quote i found by John Howard Griffin the author of black like me and John Howard Griffin used that quote and ohama had a reputation in the Africanamerican Community in ohama and the United States as a city that when you came in, of you were black you need teed keep your head down and needed to be aware you werent going to be served in restaurantswerent going to be able to stay in hotels and there was like there were in many cities, there there was this informal industry of staying in homes in the black community, eating at the restaurants in the black community, even if you were an africanamerican that part part of a band playing in a white hotel, or a play in a mostly white attended theater and thats not a quote that ohama shares proudly but it is a quote i found prepeted. It was known and that description of birmingham of the north was apt strings. The club started in 1947 by two gentlemen, one was a Catholic Priest a jesuit at Creighton University john markoe, and the other founder of the Deporres Club was a gentleman named Denny Holland who is actually my father. He was a 20yearold crate top student and he and father markoe talked about what they called at the time social justice and he started a group and my dad says he thought he was joining a prayer book, sit around, talk about what the moral and theological implications war and father markoe had different ideas and over in the next seven years was the core and he center of that group as they moved into boycotts and picketing and challenging and doing things that my dad said scared him spitless. When the Deporres Club began their operation, the ceremony civil rights they used the term social justice because civil rights want part of the national lexicon at the time. The idea of civil rights was so far removed from the idea of the Greater Community of ohama or the United States, that they were kind of operating in a vacuum. I like to say day were operating without a net. There were not the support groups there were not the prior experiences of other groups to challenge Racial Discrimination and segregation so in some cases they were making up their strategies, the techniques they used because there wasnt a im an edcountior and i do this preparation often for high school and middle school students. I say you can shoot somebody an email and say how did that protest go . There wasnt any of that. They were sitting down and saying okay, well try to challenge this business and were going to hand out leiflets but not yet because were not sure if its legal. In the Meeting Minutes they were going to check with a lawyer to find it if they can legally hand out fliers in front of a business. They were that far ahead of what bill the norm later. The ohama urban league was strong in ohama it was led by Whitney Young, the National Leader of the urban league in the 60s. A Strong Branch of the naacp and then came this ohama Deporres Club that was operating outside of the bounds of the regular established rules of how you got things done in the city. And it created a tension in the black community but in fact, one of the very first levels of tensions that was created by the ohama Deporres Club was because they were racially mixed. Black men and white women and black women and mite when meeting together, having a beer after their meetings and that created a stir because people in north ohama saw that as a problem. They didnt need to have any attention drawn to north ohama because they didnt the Deporres Club was seen as a dating center, one of the terms used and there was that tension of, you got black men and white women meeting and theyre single and thats a problem. So that was one of the first problems they came up against in the black community. But really once people understood what the Deporres Club was trying to do, they garnered support over the years from the urban league, from the naacp. In fact they worked closely with both of those groups. From ministers of local churches as theyll saw the Deporres Club was about challenging and changing the institutional racism in ohama and once they understood that is what they were about in fact, father mar coonce gave a supreme to a group that thought maybe the Deporres Club had other motivations, and he toad up and quickly said, the goal of the ohama Deporres Club is to kick jim crows ass out of ohama and the sat back down. That was the message. They werent there for anything else. And when people understood that they tended to get onboard or at pleas not resist the efforts of the club. The first boycott was a block down the street here, its now a daycare but the ed Holme Sherman lawn dray, they refused to hire blacks to do anything except wash the laundry. All the customers were black. The wouldnt hire anyone to work in the office, wouldnt hire any black employees the office for to drive the deliver yvans. So the Deporres Club this is 1950, after a couple of years of doing the as my dad said, the sweet mess santa things pleasant things, went to this business and said we think this isnt fair and the business said, why are you here . This hasnt been a problem. Weve been doing this for years and nobody has ever complained. Were not changing our policy. So the Deporres Club it caused a big stir they decided to organize a boycott and the black community should say do this . Is it going to cause problems beyond what we want it to . And they started a boycott and the business went out of business they sold to another laundry, and eventually that laundry hired a black clerk and then as it happened in a lot of these efforts it ripple effect. Ulaundrys to avoid a challenge by the Deporres Club, started hiring africanamerican employees, and one brilliant businessman opened a business that employed only africanamericans, including the manager and the assistant manager. So that boycott started in july of 1950 and came to fruition in february of 1951. So it was over a period of months efforts letters leafletting, that happened, and they had that successful boycott there then they boycotted the Cocacola Bottling Company and same thing. They went and said youre located in a black community you dont hire any africanamericans, and cocacola said yeah . So . We never have. Why should we . And the deperes club started a boycott, and cocacola after the club picketed and leafletes and got a petition and got 45 businesses to say they went care coke anymore the cocacola finally hired a couple of africanamericans to work in the plant. There was an ice cream plant and when at the Deporres Club approached them to hire black workes they said well go out of business before we hire black works. The Deporres Club said, display so they organized a boycott. Took a year, and after a huge loss in business, reeds ice cream finally hired africanamerican workers and the one that was the ongoing i think the one that would have cowed the most frustration and the most exhaustion especially for my dad was the ohama Railway Company which was the company that was given the charter by the city to do the street car and bus services at the time, and unlike in some places it wasnt about blacks being able to ride the street cars. Wait about the Company Hiring blacks to drive the buses in 1948 members of the deperes club including my dad went to visit at the leadership of the company to ask them why arent you hiring africanamericans to work for your company to drive buss and street cars . And the leadership gave several answers but the one that my dad remembered most vividly was the Vice President telling them, well you know, that if we hire if we have a black driver and we come to the end of the line and theres a white woman on the end of the line, you know hell rape her. That was one of their justifications in 1948 and my dad would have been 22 at the time and i can just see him walking into the meeting thinking my goodness, did he just say that . They went become to father mark coand he said, i know. So go back out he turned them and percentage. The right back out the door. So in 1948 the company said they wouldnt hire black drives, 49 to 54 the Deporres Club picketed. Leafletted held rallies and finally in 1954 the bus company hired four black drivers because the city threatened to take away their charter if the didnt change their hiring policy. Those are the high the four main efforts but at the same time they were helping a black world war ii veteran who had been a tuesday skiing be tuskegee airman, and he had been shot down, and he bought a house, and he house was stoned by neighbors and threw paint on it and the white neighborhood threatened to run the family out, and Whitney Young the head of the urban league issue came to the Deporres Club and said can you help this guy move in . They helped, and they protested a black face act put on at a local high school. As they were doing those longterm boycott efforts against businesses there were dozens and dozens of other things going on, and all of that was met with incredible resistance, as hard as the deperes club pushed against it, the resistance was just as forceful over that same period of time. One of the interesting things was thats did these activities and did these efforts, they were operating in a cone of silence in that north ohama, the black community knew of it because of the black newspapers but if you were white in ohama this never happened. For all intents and purposes it was a nonevent. All seven years, because the greater main stream media never carried it so. If you werent black and didnt read the north ohama star, didnt read the ohama guide you didnt know what happened. So when and people were asking me, what was the communitys response . The communitys response was nonexistent because there was nothing to respond to. The main newspaper wouldnt carry it. And in 1954 there was a Television Program that carried an episode that talked about the deperes club and that was the first time if you were white in ohama you would have never heard of these people. So that sense of pushing and not getting any response did wear down on dad. The Deporres Club dishappened in the fall of 1954. The montgomery bus boycott took place the next year. You think if they had just stuck it to they