‘Jumptown’ | African-American Historical District

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SOURCE | Portland Observer.

The Trail Blazers have big plans for the Rose Quarter, which is a ghost town when the team isn’t in season. Photo by Mark Washington.

By Jake Thomas
jthomas@portlandobserver.com
Larry Miller, the president of the Portland Trail Blazers, has seen the Rose Quarter looking so desolate during his team’s off season that he felt like a [...]

PDX Civil Rights Project @PSU

PSU | Capstone Course | Felicia Williams | fwilliam@pdx.edu
PSU | Capstone Course: Fall Term 2009 Civil Rights Movement in Portland
Pdx Civil-Rights

We had to cut the documentary portion of the course due to time constraints, but we are still interviewing and creating an archive. If you know someone who is interested in filming a documentary, we’ve [...]

PPS Curriculum Adoption: Oregon’s Racist Acts

Subject: PPS Curriculum Adoption
From: Marcia Arganbright <marganbr@pps.k12.or.us>
Date: Tue, May 13, 2008 9:04 pm
To: GOLDEN-WEST-PROJECT@AFRICAN-AMERICAN-HISTORICAL-DISTRICT.COM

PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS
As an active concerned group of community partners I want to make sure you all saw the Oregonian article about part of the new middle level social studies materials to be used in Portland Public Schools. We will not begin [...]

To Rename Portland Post Office after Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dedication of Dr Martin Luther King Post Office

Dedication of Dr Martin Luther King Post Office
Send me your name & address, I’ll get you a fancy invite
Jamie Partridge, jamiep7206@aol.com

Friday, January 15, 2010
Time: 9:00am – 9:30am
Location: 630 NE Killingsworth
To Rename Portland Post Office after Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bill to Go to President Obama for Final Signature
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Hello Will, I [...]

New Golden West Historical Display

Click >Golden West Historic Display Preview-Panels.PDF<Click

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

The woman’s name in black is Willie Richardson, from Salem. The woman on the left, is Jodi Cheever from Portland. -by Photo by Brian Stimson

Anthony I. Allen never knew W.D. Allen, his grandfather and the original owner of the Golden West Hotel, [...]

“Unveiling”

fwilliam@pdx.edu wrote:
> Hi Will,
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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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> Quoting INFO :
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>> I only could i find words…
>> Anymore pic [...]

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 [...]