African Americans
Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
Young Women's Christian Association Williams Avenue Center records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 2384
Abstract
Records of a YWCA center located in the Albina neighborhood of northeast, Portland, Oregon, which served the African American community. Includes historical background, minutes of meetings, correspondence, reports, surveys, study workbook, and papers on relief for people displaced by the 1948 Vanport flood.
Dates:
1918-1961
Zeta Sigma Omega Fashionetta program
Collection
Identifier: Coll810
Abstract
Program for the first Fashionetta fundraiser held by the Zeta Sigma Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, a college sorority for African-American students. Zeta Sigma Omega was founded by students at Portland State College in November 1955, and held its first Fashionetta on September 13, 1956.
Dates:
1956 September 13