On This Day February 21, 1909: When Greeks of Omaha Were Targeted… Just Because They Were Greek

On this day in South Omaha, Nebraska, thousands of Greeks fled their homes in the city’s Greektown after an organized community-wide effort to burn down Greek homes and businesses engulfed the city. The episode has gone down as one of the ugliest chapters in U.S. history when an entire community of people — most of […] The post On This Day February 21, 1909: When Greeks of Omaha Were Targeted… Just Because They Were Greek appeared first on The Pappas Post.

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