New Golden West Historical Display

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fwilliam@pdx.edu wrote: Hi Will, There was a photographer from the Oregonian there and I know that Michael Chappie Grice also took a lot of pictures. It was a fantastic evening and the only thing missing was you. Congratulations!
Felicia Williams

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source:by Brian Stimson, The Skanner
October 29, 2009

The woman’s name in black is [...]

“Unveiling”

fwilliam@pdx.edu wrote:
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> There was a photographer from the Oregonian there and I know that Michael Chappie Grice also took a lot of pictures. It was a fantastic evening and the only thing missing was you. Congratulations!
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> Felicia Williams
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To speak of Mahalia Jackson…

Source: The National Museum of African American History and Culture
To speak of Mahalia Jackson’s voice is to speak of magic and mystery and majesty.  Hers is not a voice.  It is a force of nature.  It moves with the power of a tornado and soothes with the tenderness of a spring rain.

In describing the legendary [...]

Exhibit Honors the History of African-Americans in Downtown Portland

Exhibit Honors the History of African-Americans in Downtown PortlandOn Thursday, October 22, 2009,
Central City Concern will host an unveiling celebration for a newly installed permanent exterior exhibit on two sides of the Golden West Building, former center of Portland’s African-American social and business life in the first decades of the twentieth century, located at [...]

16th Annual Northwest Public Employees Diversity Conference

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Will, thanks to you every City Bureau’s Diversity Committee has a DVD of “Local Color”. The Bureaus have been showing it regularly and I have facilitated a number of small group discussions following the showing of the video. We also showed the film as part of our 2008 Black History Month [...]

Oregon’s Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan
Fiery crosses and marchers in Ku Klux Klan regalia were common sights in Oregon and the nation during the 1920s. The social and economic problems following World War I only partly explain why this organization, with its southern heritage of racism and violence, appealed to the overwhelmingly white, native-born, and Protestant population of [...]

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Earl Henry Winchester

Life Story: Earl Winchester

Posted by Joan Harvey, The Oregonian Joan Harvey, The Oregonian –> July 25, 2009 09:00AM

Earl Henry Winchester
Born: Oct. 5, 1921, in Kinsley, Kan.
Died: July 11, 2009, in Portland
Survivors: Wife, Virginia B.; daughter, JoAnn “Jody”; sons, James, Phillip and Peter; sisters, Mellow Dee Barnett, La Verna Fuller, Dorothy Marshall, Elva [...]

911 Henry Gates Audio

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Black In Oregon: precarious

State of black Oregon: precarious
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by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The Oregonian
Saturday July 25, 2009, 10:00 AM
source: OregonLive.com

Sharon Peters, who has a daughter headed to college a son who’s a senior in high school, waits at the state WorkSource Central Metro office in North Portland. She’s looking for work, but can’t find it. Black Oregonians are twice [...]