African Americans
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
Afro-American Heritage Bicentennial Commemorative Quilt Committee records
The Afro-American Heritage Bicentennial Commemorative Quilt Committee was formed in 1974 to make a quilt celebrating African American history to be finished to coincide with the American Revolution Bicentennial Celebration. Collection includes photocopy correspondence and financial records; a printed pamphlet for the exhibition of the quilt at the Oregon Historical Society; and a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and other ephemera.
Martha Anderson photographic collection for "Black Pioneers of the Northwest"
Black and white copy prints of images used in the book "Black Pioneers of the Northwest" by Martha Anderson. Subjects include pioneers in Laramie, Wyoming; cowboys; railroad workers; soldiers and military bands; and the Rev. W. O. Johnson.
Black journalists, then & now
Collection includes a booklet for an exhibit, "Black Journalists, Then & Now," containing portraits and biographical sketches of Black journalists. Also included are color prints of portraits of Black journalists, including T. Thomas Fortune, Malvin R. Goode, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Samuel H. Lacy, Robert C. Maynard, Gordon Parks, Ethel L. Payne, William Raspberry, John B. Russwurm, Clarice Tinsley, William Monroe Trotter and Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
Materials related to Black Lives Matter demonstrations and activism in Portland, Oregon
Flyers, booklets, ephemera, posters, and photographs of graffiti and signs relating to Black Lives Matter demonstrations and the police defunding movement in Portland, Oregon. Portland was one of many cities in the United States where residents demonstrated in protest against police brutality and systemic racism following the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in May 2020.
Blacks in Government photographic collection
Jean B. Brownell papers
Collection includes research and notes on African Americans in Oregon before the Civil War, 1962, and a typewritten term paper, "Negroes in Oregon before the Civil War," 45 pages, 1962.
Beatrice Morrow Cannady family papers
Carnation Milk poster of Tigner quadruplets
Carnation Milk poster showing the Tigner quadruplets of Portland, Oregon, at age four. The Tigners were Black fraternal quadruplets born in 1946; they were sponsored by Carnation Milk for advertising purposes, though only two known advertisements featuring them were produced.
Challenge and progress (points of progress)
Jeannette McPherson Gates was a Northwest poet, author, teacher, and historian. She earned her MBA in 1949 and was active in the NAACP, Citizens for Inter-racial Understanding, and Democratic Women of Multnomah County. Collection consists of a typescript book regarding Gates' own life and the history of the civil rights movement.
Cheryl James Defense Committee records
Cheryl Dawn James was an 18-year-old African-American woman from Portland, Oregon. In 1971, she was convicted of assaulting an FBI agent who came to the James' residence to arrest her brother, Charles T. James Jr., who was absent without leave from the Navy. Collection includes correspondence, financial records, news clippings and ephemera regarding the case and the work of the Cheryl James Defense Committee Fund.