Discrimination against African Americans -- Oregon
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Kernan H. Bagley
Oral history interview with Kernan H. Bagley conducted by Brent E. Turvey from February 9 to March 17, 1993, as part of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Bagley was a U.S. marshal in Portland, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Dorothy J. and Hurtis M. Hadley, Sr.
Oral history interview with Dorothy J. Hadley and Hurtis M. Hadley, Sr., conducted by Sarah Harris on November 19, 2021. The Hadleys discuss owning and operating the Milwaukie Pastry Kitchen from 1977 to 1985. The Pastry Kitchen was the first Black-owned bakery in the state of Oregon.
Oral history interview with Rahel Nardos
Oral history interview with Rahel Nardos conducted by Sankar Raman and Maleya Luis on March 28, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Nardos immigrated to the United States from Ethiopia in the 1990s to pursue a career in medicine. In 2010, she founded Footsteps in Healing, which provides health care to women in Ethiopia.
Oregon Black History Project records
Administrative records, research files, and photographs gathered and created by the Oregon Black History Project, a grant-funded project that culminated in the publication of the book "A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940."
Oral history interview with Roosevelt Robinson
Oral history interview with Roosevelt Robinson conducted by Clark Hansen from February 12 to March 10, 2002, as part of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Robinson was a judge on the Multnomah County Circuit Court.
Oral history interview with Felix Songolo
Oral history interview with Felix Songolo conducted by Sankar Raman on February 10, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Songolo, the son of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, immigrated to the United States with his family at age 4. They settled in Portland, Oregon, in 2004.