The Great Plains Black History Museum currently resides on the first floor of the historic Jewell Building in North Omaha, Nebraska.

A nationally renowned institution for more than 40 years, the museum includes more than 100,000 periodicals, manuscripts, photographs and research materials.

[1] The museum currently conducts programs and presents exhibits throughout Omaha, the State of Nebraska, regionally and nationally upon request.

In 1976 she opened the Great Plains Black History Museum, in the Western Telephone Exchange Building.

The museum chronicles their transformation into urban workers, the development of churches and other community institutions; and music, literature and other cultures.

The museum is one of the largest historical and cultural institutions devoted to African-American life west of the Mississippi River.