In 1919, Will Brown, an African American man was brutalized by a white mob in Omaha Nebraska. Will was shot, beaten, burned, and dragged through the streets near the Douglas County Courthouse. More than 100 years later, Omaha still has no public memorial honoring his life or condemning this act of racial terror. This silence is a painfully vivid example of racial injustice.

As citizens and allies, we demand the City of Omaha erect a permanent monument at or near the courthouse to acknowledge Will Brown's life, as well as Omaha to confront their history as a symbol of standing against racial injustice