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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.
KOPB-FM (91.5 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station licensed to Portland, Oregon. It is owned by Oregon Public Broadcasting and airs a public radio news and talk format. It is a member station of National Public Radio (NPR), American Public Media, the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), and airs the BBC World Service overnight.
The Oregon black exclusion laws were attempts to prevent black people from settling within the borders of the settlement and eventual US 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.
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.
The network was spun off from the state board of education in October 1981 and renamed Oregon Public Broadcasting. At the same time, the network moved to Portland, and KOAP-FM/TV became the flagship stations. On February 15, 1989, KOAP changed their call letters to KOPB, for both radio and television. [5] OPB was a pioneer in HDTV. As early as ...
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.
The station signed on the air on September 19, 1947; 77 years ago (). [3] Its original call sign was KASH. The station was a network affiliate of CBS Radio.For a time in the mid-1970s, it aired an all news radio format, using the NBC News and Information Service (NIS).
KOAC-FM (89.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Astoria, Oregon, United States. The station is owned by Oregon Public Broadcasting , and airs OPB's news and talk programming, consisting of syndicated programming from NPR , American Public Media and Public Radio Exchange , as well as locally produced offerings.