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Downtown Lincoln, 1942. Flags waved proudly, but for months after Pearl Harbor, the news from the Pacifi c remained grim.
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"Flophouse on lower Douglas Street,
Omaha." Lower Douglas Street, near
Jobbers Canyon, was full of cheap
lodging and pawn shops. Elsewhere,
Vachon noted that many of the city's
unemployed were found in this
neighborhood looking for work.
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"Public Works Administration housing project for Negroes, Omaha." Like many
New Deal projects, public housing was racially segregated. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
