Civil Rights
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Letters from grandparents concerning the civil rights movement in the United States
Letters sent to second-grade students at Willamette Primary School in Portland, Oregon, from the students' grandparents, concerning the grandparents' experiences during the civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s.
Human Relations Council of Yamhill County records
Records include correspondence and minutes, as well as reports, surveys, and other materials regarding the Council's involvement in housing, education, health and child care programs for migrant workers, promotion of low-income housing, services for the elderly and other activities related to civil rights in Yamhill County, Oregon.
NAACP of Portland, Oregon records
Russell Peyton papers
Russell Peyton worked as an investigator for the Civil Rights Division of the Oregon State Bureau of Labor and as an executive director of the Metropolitan Human Relations Commission. He was also involved with the Joint Council for Social Welfare for many years. Collection includes correspondence; reports; a scrapbook containing clippings, programs, and photographs regarding civil rights and human relations; and programs for the Metropolitan Human Relations Commission Awards.
Stella Maris House collection
Urban League of Portland flyer refuting housing myths
Flyer from the Urban League of Portland providing evidence against claims that Black people moving into or attending church in majority-white neighborhoods would cause property values to decrease. The Urban League of Portland is a civil rights and advocacy organization for Black residents of Portland, Oregon, that was founded in 1945.
Oral history interview with Jerry Weller
Oral history interview with Jerry Weller conducted by Libbey Austin on May 10, 2007, for the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest (GLAPN). Weller was a gay and civil rights activist in Portland, Oregon.
Women collection
Collection assembled by the Oregon Historical Society relating to women in Oregon. Included are postcards with pro- and anti-suffrage images; correspondence; a scrapbook of the League of Women Voters; papers of various women's political groups; and newspaper clippings.