This 1964 Omaha Star headline reads, “4CL Vows to Continue Drive ‘Until Hell Freezes Over.'” They were boycotting Omaha’s S. To secure integrated schools through busing for all African American students.To create equal job opportunities for African Americans.They had three main goals to be achieved through the Nebraska Legislature: Omaha’s civil rights movement was coordinated by 4CL, and they set the agenda for action throughout the city. King and the Birmingham campaign, the De Porres Club slowly folded after 4CL launched and their once-young members joined the new group. In 1947, a group of students gathered to form the De Porres Club with a Catholic priest, Father John DeMarkoe. The Citizens Civic Committee for Civil Liberties, called 4CL, they were focused the future of the Black community in Omaha, and for the future of democracy in the United States. More than a 50 years ago, a group of African American activists banded together to form a group that would challenge those structures in Omaha. However, people of color have never known anything but those realities. Protesters with 4CL protesting in Omaha in the 1960s.Īcross the United States today, there is a re-emerging awareness among white people that white privilege, structural racism, segregation, and systemic discrimination are all still hard at work in the U.S.
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