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Interview session 5, 1985 August 7

 Item — Multiple Containers

Scope and Contents

Tape 7, Side 1, through Tape 8, Side 1. In the fifth interview session, conducted on August 7, 1985, Bogle discusses her work as a journalist for the Northwest Enterprise and Pittsburgh Courier, and talks about taking writing and journalism classes through adult education programs in the 1930s. She speaks extensively about her article “An American Negro Speaks of Color," published in the Portland Oregonian on February 14, 1937. She also talks about discrimination that she, her family, and her friends experienced in Portland in the 1930s and 1940s.

Dates

  • Creation: 1985 August 7

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

1.5 audiocassettes (1 hr., 26 min., 28 sec.)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library Repository

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