Voices
Matt Holland is the author of Ahead of Their Time: The Story of the Omaha DePorres Club. He is currently working on a biography of Father John Markoe, S.J.
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The little-known history of a Catholic club that got Coca-Cola to change its racist hiring practices
In the 1950s in Omaha, Neb., the multi-racial DePorres Club realized it needed to escalate its tactics from uplifting the Black community to confronting white discrimination.
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Father Markoe's pledge to work for racial justice helped transform Catholic institutions across the midwest.