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African American women -- Oregon -- Portland

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Beatrice Morrow Cannady family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 702
Abstract Papers of Beatrice Morrow Cannady (1889-1974) and her family, primarily her son George Cannady (1914-1968) and her third husband, Reuben A. Taylor (1900-1972). Papers include correspondence, photographs, and ephemera. Beatrice Morrow Cannady, a Black journalist and activist who lived in Portland, Oregon, from 1912 to 1938, edited the newspaper The Advocate, was a founding member of the Portland chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and advocated...
Dates: circa 1890-1984

Laura Jenkins Landers and Susie Jenkins Stokes papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll867
Abstract

Papers relating to Laura Jenkins Landers (1908-2009) and Susie Jenkins Stokes (1915-2003) and their families. The sisters were born in Sicily Island, Louisiana, and were among the Black workers who moved to the Portland, Oregon, area in the 1940s. They worked in the shipyards during World War II, and as domestic workers after the war.

Dates: circa 1930-1992