{{Short description|Nebraskan residents with Czech ancestry}} [[File:ZCBJ Opera House from W.JPG|thumb|right|[[Z.C.B.J. Opera House (Verdigre, Nebraska)|Z.C.B.J. Opera House]], an opera house in [[Verdigre, Nebraska|Verdigre]] that served as a meeting hall for Bohemian immigrants.]]
'''Czech Nebraskans''' are residents of the state of [[Nebraska]] who are of [[Czech Republic|Czech]] ancestry. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, Czech-Americans living in Nebraska make up 5.5% of the state's population, the largest percentage of any state. 3,295 Nebraskans can speak the [[Czech language]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usefoundation.org/userdata/file/Research/Languages/czech.pdf |title=Czech language |publisher=[[U.S. English (organization)|U.S. English]] |accessdate=2013-10-11 |archive-date=2012-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304193742/http://www.usefoundation.org/userdata/file/Research/Languages/czech.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
[[Šárka B. Hrbková|Hrbková]] had estimated that of the 539,392 [[Czech Americans|Bohemians]] counted in the [[1910 United States census|1910 Census]], about one eighth lived in Nebraska.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/resources/OLLibrary/collections/vol19/v19p140.htm|title=Bohemians in Nebraska|last=Hrbkova|first=Sarka|website=Collections of the NSHS - Volume 18|access-date=2017-10-13}}</ref>
Various fraternal orders, and thirteen Komensky educational clubs were established in Nebraska. The [[Czech Sokol movement|Sokol society]] had organizations in [[Crete, Nebraska|Crete]] and in [[Wilber, Nebraska|Wilber]].<ref name=":0" />
A [[Czech language]] newspaper, the ''[[Pokrok Západu]]'' (Progress of the West), was founded in [[Omaha, Nebraska|Omaha]] in 1871.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/ethnic/czechs/cz-pg19.html|title=Czechs in Nebraska - Introduction|website=www.usgennet.org|access-date=2017-10-13}}</ref> Other Czech language newspapers in Nebraska included ''Přítel Lidu'' (People's Friend),<ref>{{cite web |title=Přítel Lidu (Wahoo, Neb.) 1891-19?? [Microfilm Reel] |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/sn95069354/ |website=Library of Congress}}</ref> ''Ozvěna Západu'' (Echo of the West),<ref>{{cite web |last1=Society |first1=University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Nebraska State Historical |title=Ozvěna západu. |url=https://nebnewspapers.unl.edu/lccn/sn99067057/}}</ref> and ''Wilberské Listy''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wilberské Listy (Wilber, Neb.) 190?-19?? |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/sn96080327/ |website=Library of Congress}}</ref>
A state organization for Czech Nebraskans, Nebraska Czechs Inc., was formed in 1963.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unl.edu/czechheritage/czechs-nebraska|title=Czechs in Nebraska|website=Czech Heritage Project - University of Nebraska–Lincoln|language=en|access-date=2017-10-13}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Czech Republic|Nebraska}} *[[Czechs in Omaha, Nebraska]]
==References== {{reflist}} * Rosicky, Rose. [https://www.unl.edu/czechheritage/czechs-nebraska A History of Czechs (Bohemians) in Nebraska]. Omaha, 1929.
==External links== {{Commons category|Czech diaspora in Nebraska}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20121015174400/http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0500/frameset_reset.html?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nebraskastudies.org%2F0500%2Fstories%2F0501_0212.html The Immigrant Experience: The Czechs Move to Nebraska]
{{European Americans}} {{Demographics of the United States}} {{Czech Americans by location}} {{Czech diaspora}} {{Ethnicity in Nebraska}}
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