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Civil Rights

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Letters from grandparents concerning the civil rights movement in the United States

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 222
Abstract

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.

Dates: 2011

Human Relations Council of Yamhill County records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2542
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1964-1973

NAACP of Portland, Oregon records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2004
Abstract Founded in 1914, the Portland, Oregon, branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) works to empower and engage people of color in the Portland area. The collection demonstrates organizational activities related to important topics in the Portland area, such as housing, education and labor. A majority of the collection consists of publications from 1959 through 1989, with a smaller quantity of topical administrative materials, correspondence, meeting...
Dates: 1942-1989; Majority of material found within 1959-1989

Russell Peyton papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2764
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1954-1992

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

Urban League of Portland flyer refuting housing myths

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 963
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1952

Oral history interview with Jerry Weller

 Collection
Identifier: SR11124
Abstract

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.

Dates: 2007 May 10

Women collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1534
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1899-1950

Yasui family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 949
Abstract This collection includes correspondence, personal papers, and photographs of three generations of the Yasui family. Major topics represented in the collection include the first (Issei) generation’s immigration to Oregon in the early 1900s; the family's business and community activities in Hood River, Oregon, through 1942; the forced removal and incarceration of Yasui family members during World War II; and advocacy for redress and on behalf of Japanese American history by members of the...
Dates: 1873-2023; Majority of material found within 1910-1995