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December 22, 2009
*☆♪*«”JUMPTOWN”»*☆♪*
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 [...]
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Tags: Albina, Eliot, Community Dialogue on Racism, Racism, Community, Gentrification, Urban Renewal, Black heritage, Sustainably, Will Bennett, "Local Color", Race relations, cordish, james posey, portland trail blazers, rose quarter, sam adams, African-American Historical District
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December 4, 2009
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 [...]
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November 28, 2009
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 [...]
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Tags: African American, Albina, Black Americans, Black history, Civil Rights, Community Dialogue on Racism, Curriculum, Education, kkk, Oregon, Portand, Race relations, Racism, Social conditions, white people, Will Bennett
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November 20, 2009
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 [...]
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November 7, 2009
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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>> All =
>> I only could i find words…
>> Anymore pic [...]
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October 26, 2009
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 [...]
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October 11, 2009
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 [...]
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September 30, 2009
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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 [...]
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September 27, 2009
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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