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Starting in the 1950s and 1960s, Black residents who were former Vanport residents and shipyard/industrial workers settled in the Northeast Portland area. Much of Portland's Black community, which is 6% of Portland's population, is concentrated within the northeast Portland area; Alberta Arts District and King both include large African ...
Hispanics are most concentrated in North Portland at nearly 15% of the population. NE Portland has the highest concentration of African Americans at 30%. The concentration of Asians in Portland are mostly within NE, SE, and outer East Portland, with a percent population of 11%, 10%, and 9% respectively. Whites are the most common race group ...
The Portland Black Panthers: Empowering Albina and Remaking a City is a history book written by Lucas N. N. Burke, a historian at the University of Oregon, and Judson L. Jeffries, a professor of African and African American Studies at the Ohio State University. [1] It was published by the University of Washington Press in 2016. [1]
By 2010, none of these tracts were majority nonwhite as gentrification drove the cost of living up. [1] Today, Portland's Black community is concentrated in the north and northeast section of the city, mainly in the King neighborhood. In 2017, Portland, Oregon was named the fourth fastest gentrifying city in the United States by Realtor.com. [2]
In June 1844, Oregon enacted an exclusion law banning black people from living in Oregon. [6] [9] The punishment for violating the law was to be 39 lashes every six months until the occupant left, [9] but this punishment was deemed too harsh and was replaced with forced labor in December 1844. [2]
Intisar Abioto (born 1986) is an artist and storyteller currently living and working in Portland Oregon.Working within and between the forms of dance, photography, collaboration, prose, and poetry, Abioto explores the meaning of time, space, and belonging within the construction of who, where, and what composes the African diaspora. [1]
1800 – The Cowlitz people live nearby when the first Black visitor arrives in 1802. His name is York. He's on the Lewis and Clark expedition, and he's enslaved – William Clark has owned him since birth. These roads 1st appear on a map in 1865 – While Oregon has an annual tax on every nonwhite resident.
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