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Additional laws aimed at African Americans entering Oregon were ratified in 1849 and 1857. The last of these laws was repealed in 1926. The laws, born of anti-slavery and anti-black beliefs, were often justified as a reaction to fears of black people instigating Native American uprisings. [ 7 ]
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 ...
2 African-American proportion of state and territory populations (1790–2020) Toggle African-American proportion of state and territory populations (1790–2020) subsection 2.1 Free blacks as a percentage out of the total black population by U.S. region and U.S. state between 1790 and 1860
Additional laws aimed at African Americans entering Oregon were ratified in 1849 and 1857. [2] The last of these laws was repealed in 1926. [ 3 ] The laws, born of anti-slavery and anti-black beliefs, [ 2 ] [ 4 ] were often justified as a reaction to fears of black people instigating Native American uprisings.
Pac-12 Networks is proud to celebrate Black History Month as Oregon student-athletes share their thoughts on African American history and ways to inspire change. Verone McKinley III, Nyara Sabally ...
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of Oregon. It includes both current and historical newspapers. Portland is the only city where such newspapers are known to have been published. [1] The first was the Portland New Age, founded as The New Age in 1896. [2]
Perseverance: a history of African Americans in Oregon's Marion and Polk Counties. Salem, Oregon: Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers. 2011. ISBN 978-1-4507-4878-0. OCLC 747038125. [7] Oregon Black Pioneers; Moreland, Kimberly Stowers (2013). African Americans of Portland. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-9619-1.
An Oregon jury awarded a Black woman $1 million in damages this week in a civil case after a gas attendant at a full-service gas station told her, “I don’t serve Black people.”