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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.

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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.

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...

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Oral history interview with Russell Peyton conducted by Dan Malone from July 28 to August 12, 1987. Peyton worked as an investigator for the Civil Rights Division of the Oregon State Bureau of Labor, and later was executive director of the Metropolitan Human Relations Commission.

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Reverend Paul E. Waldschmidt of the C.S.C. (Congregation of the Holy Cross) was president of the University of Portland, 1962-1977. Collection includes correspondence and program materials, 1966, regarding a Jewish-Catholic conference held at the University of Portland; minutes, correspondence, memoranda, and reports of the Portland School District's Committee on Race and Education, 1963-1964; sermon texts and notes.