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Mildred Brown (1905–1989) 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. Brown was the first African American and one of only three women inducted into the Omaha Business Hall of Fame. She also has been posthumously inducted into the Nebraska Journalism Hall of Fame (2007) and the newly instituted Omaha Press Club Journalism of Excellence Hall of Fame (2008). ==Early life and family== Mildred Brown was born in Bessemer, Alabama in 1905 to Rev. and Mrs. Bennie J. Brown, a prominent African-American family.〔(Amy Helene Forss, "Mildred Brown put shine on Omaha Star" ), ''The Reader'', 21 Aug 2008, accessed 28 Aug 2008〕 Her mother was a teacher.〔("Mildred Brown: Founder of the Omaha Star" ), Nebraska Studies, accessed 27 May 2008〕 They encouraged her education. In 1931 Brown graduated from Miles College (then called Miles Memorial Teachers College), an historically black college (HBCU) founded in Birmingham, Alabama by the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (CME Church).〔 Brown worked as a teacher in Birmingham, where she met and married S. Edward Gilbert, a pharmacy graduate of Howard University. They moved to Chicago, where Brown studied at Chicago Normal College, and then to Des Moines, where she took journalism at Drake University. Brown started in journalism and started selling ads and writing news at the ''Silent Messenger'' in Sioux City, Iowa, where Gilbert was editor.〔"Black-owned paper thriving after 50 years", ''Lincoln Journal'', 1988, p.31, scanned article on ("Mildred Brown: Omaha Star Founder" ), Nebraska Studies, accessed 27 May 2008〕 At the invitation of a friend who invited them to his paper, in 1937 they moved to Omaha. Initially Brown worked as advertising manager.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mildred Brown」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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