Abstract Publications and other materials relating to women and feminism compiled by Julia M. Allen, including newsletters of A Woman's Place, a feminist bookstore in Portland, Oregon; issues of the women's art and literature magazine Calyx; and flyers and posters for events. Allen was a graduate student and then professor at Portland State University in the 1970s and 1980s, and helped to establish the Women's Studies Certificate Program there. Students in the program organized or participated in...

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Flyers, booklets, ephemera, posters, and photographs of graffiti and signs relating to Black Lives Matter demonstrations and the police defunding movement in Portland, Oregon. Portland was one of many cities in the United States where residents demonstrated in protest against police brutality and systemic racism following the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in May 2020.

Abstract Two copies each of two flyers advertising a demonstration in support of Colegio César Chávez at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Oregon, on April 25, 1975. Colegio César Chávez was the first four-year accredited Chicano-run college in the United States. It operated from 1973 to 1983 and was located on the former campus of Mt. Angel College in Mount Angel, Oregon. The 1975 demonstration was held in response to the threat of foreclosure by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban...

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Flyers, concert posters, and radio record surveys relating to rock music performed or played in Portland, Oregon, and Eugene, Oregon, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as the autographs of members of The Doors, Fever Tree, Iron Butterfly, Buffalo Springfield, and the Steve Miller Band. The materials were collected by Peter Glazer (1952-) of Portland, Oregon.

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Records of Portland International Women's Day, including programs, flyers, photographs, proclamations, articles of incorporation, and other materials. Portland International Women's Day was an annual event held each March beginning in 1976; the organizing committee dissolved in 2022.

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Flyer from the Urban League of Portland providing evidence against claims that Black people moving into or attending church in majority-white neighborhoods would cause property values to decrease. The Urban League of Portland is a civil rights and advocacy organization for Black residents of Portland, Oregon, that was founded in 1945.