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In 1844, George Washington Bush traveled west on the Oregon Trail. After hearing about Oregon's exclusion law he decided not to settle in the Oregon Territory, and settled in what would become Washington Territory instead. [citation needed] According to Perseverance, "By 1860, African Americans were present in fourteen of the nineteen Oregon ...
However, its threatened enforcement against African American settler George Bush led the Bush-Simmons party, which arrived shortly after the law's adoption, to cut a new spur of the Oregon Trail northward across the Columbia River into disputed, British-controlled territory, where they founded the first U.S. settlement on the Puget Sound in ...
In 2011 and 2013, Oregon politician Lew Frederick introduced bills to recognize Peoples. It was enrolled and signed by the governor on May 1, 2013. [13] [9] Peoples died on October 5, 2015, at age 89. The annual parade was named the "Clara Peoples Freedom Trail Parade" beginning in 2016. [14] [15]
[1] [9] [16] [17] Bush was thus among the first African-American landowners in Washington State. According to the Oregon Trail History Library: The Bush-Simmons Party is credited by some historians as having been in large part responsible for bringing the land north of the Columbia River—the present-day state of Washington—into the United ...
A 2014 report by the Portland State University and the Coalition of Communities found that not only do black families fall far behind white families in Portland in regards to employment, health outcomes, and high-school graduation rates, but that in 2010 only 32% of African Americans in Multnomah County owned houses, which was 13% lower than ...
Nevertheless, the Bowman-Hicks Lumber Co. brought in 50 to 60 Black workers from southern and midwestern states who worked there until the company left in 1933. Some, like Trice's family members ...
The Oregon Festival of American Music is an eclectic, thematically based two-week summer music festival that has been held annually in Eugene since 1992 and has been produced by The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts. Other music festivals in Oregon include the Waterfront Blues Festival in Portland, the Oregon Bach Festival in Eugene, and the ...
Thurston came to the Oregon Country in 1847 as an emigrant over the Oregon Trail. In Oregon he settled in Hillsboro, where he practiced law. [1] Then in 1848 he was elected to the Provisional Legislature from Tuality District where he served with fellow Hillsboro resident David Hill. [4] In 1849, Thurston was selected to represent the Oregon ...