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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mildred Brown (1915-1989) was an African American journalist, newspaper publisher, and leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska. Part of the Great Migration, she came from Alabama via Chicago and Des Moines, Iowa. In Omaha, she and her husband founded and ran the Omaha Star, a newspaper of the African- American community. After 1945, Brown continued to run alone what was the only African-American newspaper in Omaha. It became the only newspaper of the African- American community in the state. She used its influence for education, community building, supporting the national civil rights movement and opening up jobs for blacks. In the 1960s President Lyndon Johnson appointed her as a goodwill ambassador to East Germany.

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