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Oral history interview with the Rev. Dr. LeRoy Haynes, Jr., conducted by Jan Dilg from October 8 to December 5, 2018. In the interview, Haynes discusses his civil rights activism and his work as a Methodist Episcopal pastor in Texas and in Portland, Oregon.

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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.

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Oral history interview with Charles B. Maxey conducted by Jim Strassmaier from February 25 to November 18, 1994. Maxey was a barber in North Portland, Oregon, and was active in the Oregon Republican Party.

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Oral history interview with Johnnie O. Maxey conducted by Aaron Brand from February 25 to June 30, 1994. Maxey ran a small grocery store in North Portland.

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...

Abstract Elise A. Reynolds (1894-1982) was president of the Oregon Association of Colored Women and a member of numerous clubs, including the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs and the Portland Urban League. Phil Reynolds (1899-1973) was an employee of Northern Pacific Terminal Company and was the founder of Portland's NAACP Federal Credit Union. Collection includes photocopy correspondence, newspaper clippings and awards regarding the Reynolds family; and miscellaneous ephemera and biographical...

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Oral history interview with Ida Mae Shepherd conducted by Greta Smith Wisnewski from August 14 to October 26, 2020. Shepherd discusses her life in the Albina area of Portland, Oregon, particularly the Eliot neighborhood, as well as her involvement with Albina Fair Share.

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Reverend Lee Owen Stone (1903-1977) served as vicar of St. Philip the Deacon Episcopal Church in Portland, Oregon, from 1936 until his retirement in 1972. Collection includes correspondence, sermons, awards and certificates, meeting minutes from the St. Philip Men's Club, missionary reports, and files from Stone's activity in the Urban League of Portland and other civil and philanthropic associations.

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Papers, newspaper issues and clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks concerning the Portland, Oregon branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Thomas R. Vickers, who served as the branch president from 1967-1971.

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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.