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African Americans in Oregon. The family of America Waldo Bogle, one of the first African Americans to settle in Oregon. Total population. 137,000 including partially Black people (3.2% of Oregon's population); 81,000 alone (1.9%) Regions with significant populations. North and Northeast Portland • Gresham • Fairview.
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. The law authorized a punishment for any black settler ...
Clara Peoples ( Née Clara Mae Walker [6]) was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma on 8 September 1926. She moved to Vanport, Oregon in 1945, working for Kaiser Shipyards during the World War 2 shipbuilding efforts, where she started a Juneteenth event in 1945. Her family was flooded and displaced in the 1948 Vanport floods.
Nevertheless, the Bowman-Hicks Lumber Co. brought in 50 to 60 Black workers from southern and midwestern states who worked there until the company left in 1933. Some, like Trice's family members ...
Cohn led to the Oregon Supreme Court sanctioning the right of white Americans to racially discriminate against blacks in theatres. [10] In 1918, black soldiers from California saw a sign that read "We employ white help and cater to white trade only." Angered, the men proceeded to destroy the sign. A similar occurrence happened in 1943. [24]
Letitia Carson was an Oregon pioneer and one of the first African Americans to be listed as living in Oregon according to the U.S. Federal Census. In fact, she was the only black woman to successfully make a land claim in Oregon under the Homestead Act of 1862. She was the inspiration for Jane Kirkpatrick 's 2014 novel A Light In The Wilderness.
In Missouri, Reuben was the manager of Robert Shipley's plantation. [1] Approximately ten years before the American Civil War, in 1853, Robert gave Reuben the option of moving with him to the Oregon Territory or being sold for $1,000. [1] In exchange for helping him move to Oregon and build a home, Robert said he would grant Reuben his freedom. [1]
Lewis Southworth. Lewis Southworth, also identified as Louis Southworth (1830–1917), was an American pioneer in Oregon who settled a donation land claim in 1880 near Waldport in the U.S. state of Oregon. Southworth was born into slavery and brought to the Oregon Territory by his enslaver, from whom he bought his freedom with cash, earned ...