14 Facts About Mildred Brown

Mildred D Brown was an African-American journalist, newspaper publisher and leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska.

Mildred Brown used its influence for education, community building, supporting the national civil-rights movement and opening up jobs for blacks.

Mildred Brown was the first African-American and one of only three women inducted into the Omaha Business Hall of Fame.

Mildred Brown has been posthumously inducted into the Nebraska Journalism Hall of Fame and the Omaha Press Club Journalism of Excellence Hall of Fame.

Mildred Brown was born in Bessemer, Alabama, in 1905 to Rev and Mrs Bennie J Brown, a prominent African-American family.

In 1931, Mildred Brown graduated from Miles College, an historically black college founded in Birmingham, Alabama, by the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mildred Brown started in journalism and started selling advertising and writing news at the Silent Messenger in Sioux City, Iowa, where Gilbert was editor.

Mildred Brown was the owner and publisher until her death in 1989.

Mildred Brown used the newspaper as a way of expanding opportunities for the African-American community, especially for jobs.

Mildred Brown hired young black men and provided scholarships for education.

Mildred Brown refused to accept advertising from businesses that discriminated against blacks in hiring and led customer boycotts of them to achieve change.

Mildred Brown provided the group with her informal guidance and support.

Mildred Brown continued her activism to persuade businesses to make more opportunities open to blacks.

Mildred Brown lived in an apartment in the Omaha Star building in the North Omaha neighborhood from 1938 to her death in 1989 from a cold.