Brown invited the DePorres Club, a youth-led activism organization, to use her offices after the group was exiled from nearby Creighton University.

[3][4] Brown ensured that the Omaha Star kept the community apprised of national issues, especially the civil rights movement's successes and failures across the country and throughout the city.

Journalists researched the issues and presented the facts to its readers, and then urged involvement, but it also provided a voice and a face for the community in general.

[5] In 2007, the City of Omaha unanimously approved a community development block grant to fund a $40,000 renovation for the building.

Constructed as a service learning project by students from the Metropolitan Community College, the park includes walkways and planting beds.