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Perseverance: a history of African Americans in Oregon's Marion and Polk Counties. Salem, Oregon: Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers. 2011. ISBN 978-1-4507-4878-0. OCLC 747038125. [7] Oregon Black Pioneers; Moreland, Kimberly Stowers (2013). African Americans of Portland. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-9619-1.
Willie Bell Richardson (December 20, 1948 – January 25, 2023) was an American civil rights activist and community advocate who was president of Oregon Black Pioneers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She was a long-time resident of Salem , Oregon .
Both enslaved and free Black people settled in Oregon in the 1840s and 1850s. Although slavery had been outlawed in Oregon since the 1843 Organic Laws of Oregon, at least 40 enslaved Black people were brought to the Oregon Country. Some remained enslaved for years after their arrival.
The Oregon Black Pioneers developed the downtown Portland exhibition with the Oregon Historical Society, opening the original "Racing to Change: Oregon's Civil Rights Years" on January 15, 2018. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] [ 12 ] "Racing to Change" was the Oregon Black Pioneers' fourth exhibition curated with the Oregon Historical Society, attracting 45,000 ...
Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) is the primary television, radio and digital public broadcasting network for most of the U.S. state of Oregon as well as southern Washington. OPB consists of five full-power television stations , dozens of VHF or UHF translators , and over 20 radio stations and frequencies.
On June 13 protesters toppled the Pioneer and the Pioneer Mother during a protest of Matthew Deady (controversially the namesake of a University of Oregon building). [27] Over 2,000 demonstrators attended a Juneteenth Black Lives Matter protest at Alton Baker Park, which was designed to draw revenue to Black-owned businesses. [28]
Mary Laurinda Jane Smith Beatty (February 1834 – September 28, 1899) was an African-American abolitionist and suffrage advocate who joined Abigail Scott Duniway, Maria P. Hendee, and Mary Ann King Lambert in 1872 to cast ballots in Portland, Oregon when women were not yet afforded the right to vote. [1]
Allen Ervin Flowers was born in Columbus, Ohio on March 20, 1847. [2]Flowers was a cabin boy aboard the Brother Jonathon before jumping ship in 1865 as the ship docked in Portland.