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An enslaved man known as York came to Oregon in 1803 as part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Other early Black explorers came overland to Oregon as free trappers or as laborers for John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company and the British Hudson Bay Company. [3] Both enslaved and free Black people settled in Oregon in the 1840s and 1850s.
The Oregon black exclusion laws were attempts to prevent black people from settling within the borders of the settlement and eventual U.S. state of Oregon.The first such law took effect in 1844, when the Provisional Government of Oregon voted to exclude black settlers from Oregon's borders.
By 1890, 1,000 black people lived in Oregon, with that number doubling by 1920. [20] In 1893, the white citizens of La Grande burned down the city's Chinatown. [24] This displaced the residents of that area, and most left Oregon. Some, however, remained and attempt to resist the mob, but were ultimately forced to leave as well. [24]
Democrat Janelle Bynum is projected to win Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ, making her the first Black lawmaker to represent Oregon in Congress. Bynum, an ...
List of newspapers in Oregon; Works cited. Abajian, James De Tarr (1974). Blacks and Their Contributions to the American West: A Bibliography and Union List of Library Holdings Through 1970. G. K. Hall. ISBN 9780816111398. Danky, James Philip; Hady, Maureen E., eds. (1998). African-American newspapers and periodicals : a national bibliography ...
It forbade both black slavery and the residence of any "free negros and mulattos" in Oregon. [24] Any blacks refusing to leave Oregon were to receive a number of lashes and forcible deportation. The bill was adopted by the legislature, although an amendment was passed in December that removed the physical punishment.
She also said "by 1999, blacks owned 36 percent fewer homes than they had a decade earlier, while whites owned 43 percent more." [ 2 ] In 2021, the Southeast Examiner 's Don MacGillivray said "Portland is known for its lack of racial diversity and its lack of African Americans", with a Black population at six percent and Latinos at 10 percent ...
Oregon: 182,655 2.24% 45 ... Free blacks as a percentage of the total black (African-American) population by U.S. region and U.S. state between 1790 and 1860 [14]