Several Omahans are featured in the project that producer says was informed by an estimated 100 interviews
OMAHA — Burned into James Freeman’s memory is the sight, 58 years ago, of an ongoing string of for-sale signs posted in front of homes along a boulevard on the north side of Nebraska’s biggest city.
The Georgia native had just arrived in Omaha, recruited from college to be part of the first National Teachers Corps class. Freeman, who had marched alongside civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, asked the driver about all the yard signs.
He was told that Black families had purchased houses in the area and white people were moving out.