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BLACK HISTORY MONTH and the American Experience
Food B ank H onors C oretta Scott K ing
Volunteers
to attend
special event
To honor the life and w ork o f the
la te e ivil rights leaderCoretta Scott
K ing, the Oregon Food Bank is
hosting a volunteer event, Friday,
Feb. 24, at its food warehouse at
79(X)N.E. 33rd Drive.
The event begins w ith a recep­
tion at 5 :3 0 p.m. From 6:30 to 8:30
p.m.. volunteers w ill repack bulk-
food donations into fam ily-size
portions fo r people w ho are hun­
gry. To attend this special event,
RSVP w ith Sara Brockmeier at 503-
2 8 2 -0 5 5 5 , e x te n s io n 2 7 2 , o r
sbnx.kmeier@oregonfixxlbank.org.
OFB welcomes and honors d ive r­
sity. Volunteers are welcome from
age six up.
Coretta Scott K ing, who died at
age 78 on Jan. 30, 2006, was the
widow o f the Rev. Dr. M artin Luther
K ing Jr. She became an interna­
tional symbol o f the c iv il rights
revolution o f the 1060s and a tire ­
less advocate fo r social and p o liti­
cal issues ranging from women’ s
rights to the struggle against apart­
heid in South A frica.
She led the e ffo rt to establish
the federal h o lid a y honoring Dr.,
K in g , J r „ and established the
M a rtin L u th e r K in g Jr. C enter fo r
N on-V iolent Social Change, dedi­
cated to scholarship and to a c tiv ­
ism.
The Oregon Food Bank is a non­
pro fit, charitable organization. It is
the hub o f a statewide network o f
894 hunger-relief agencies serving
Oregon and C lark County, Wash.
Coretta
Scott
King
Author to Explore
Racial Tensions
Battle for urban neighborhoods
PHOTO ÇOURTESV OF THE O R EG O N HISTORICAL
S<K TETY
Civil Rights Adopted in Oregon Law
Verdell and Otto Rutherford and distinguished members o f the NAACP join then State Rep. Mark 0. Hatfield (seated, right) to
celebrate enactment of Oregon's Public Accommodations Law in 1953. The legislation raced and protected the civil rights of all
people and particularly African-Americans, who had fought for the law since 1919. (OHS neg. #44402)
Area residents are invited to fore jo ining the faculty at
attend a free public lecture with Harvard in 1996.
noted African American soci­
Wilson’s talk will take place
ologist William Julius Wilson at in the Council Chamber of the
Lewis & Clark College on Tues- college’s Templeton Student
day, Feb. 28, at 6:30 p.m.
“The Roots of Racial
Tension in America: The
Battle for Control of Urban
Neighborhoods” is the title
of Wilson’s presentation,
partofthecollege’sCivility
in Politics lecture series,
Wilson is an expert on
urban poverty, race, class
relations and social inequali­
ties.
He is the author of many
books including’ T he Tru ly
Disadvantaged: The Inner
City, the Underclass, and
Public Policy,”,“The Bridge
over the Racial Divide: Ris­
ing Inequal ity and Coalition
Politics" and “When Work
Disappears: The World of
William Julius Wilson
the New Urban Poor.”
He earned his doctorate from Center. Lewis & Clark is lo­
Washington State University cated a t0615 S.W. Palatine Hill
and taught at the University of Rd. Parking is available on cam*
Massachusetts at Amherst and pus. For more information, call
the University of Chicago be­ 503-768-7642.
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