Civic Activism
Subject
Subject Source: archiveswest
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Stella Maris House collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1585
Abstract
The collection consists of printed material, correspondence, and administrative, financial, and legal records created and collected by the Stella Maris House, a Portland, Oregon-based social justice group, during the course of its work. The collection demonstrates the local evolution of issues key to the history of the United States during the 1960s. Over a third of the collection is dedicated to Oregon's migrant labor rights movement; it also features materials documenting the area's civil...
Dates:
1940-1973; Majority of material found within 1960-1972
Andrew M. Wiehl scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: Coll 935
Abstract
Scrapbook, primarily of newspaper clippings, compiled by Andrew M. Wiehl (1904-1981), including his newspaper columns, articles about him and his family, and ephemera. Wiehl was a German American who ran an electronics store in Portland, Oregon, was president of the West Slope Boosters Club, and author of "Creative Visualization: How to Unlock the Secret Powers of Mind and Body for Full Self-Realization and Happiness."
Dates:
1932-1962