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African Americans in Oregon or Black Oregonians are residents of the state of Oregon who are of African American ancestry. In 2017, there were an estimated 91,000 African Americans in Oregon . [ 1 ]
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 [2] The last of these laws was repealed in 1926.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. [5]
From 1787 to 1868, enslaved African Americans were counted in the U.S. census under the Three-fifths Compromise.The compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population.
The first known person of African descent to arrive in Oregon was a sailor named Markus Lopeus. Lopeus arrived in 1788 alongside merchant sea captain Robert Gray. Lopeus later died in an altercation with the local Native Americans. [6]
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]
African-American people in Oregon politics (2 C, 7 P) Pages in category "African Americans in Oregon" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
African-American history in Portland, Oregon (1 C, 62 P) Pages in category "African-American history of Oregon" The following 103 pages are in this category, out of 103 total.
Founded to show that separate but equal educational institutions for African Americans were viable, and that racial integration, mandated by Brown v. Board of Education , was unnecessary. Closed shortly after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ; nominally merged with St. Petersburg Junior College (today St. Petersburg College ).