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Black History Month
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PHOTO e o i RTKSY OK T ill O r KGOS H IST O R IC O . S o « II IV
Portland officials survey some of the damage to the Albina neighborhood caused by
a riot in late summer of 1967.
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Racial Tensions Incited Violence
Summer of ’ 67 brought
heated situation
by T rudy F lores and S arah G rikhth
T he O regon H istorical S ociety
What began as a political rally to stir the
African-American community to “revolution,” in
Irving Park on Sunday, August 30, 1967, turned
into two nights of disturbances.
Two to three hundred people threw bottles and
rocks at automobiles and through store windows,
while a few hurled firebombs through windows
causing $20,000 in damage at one grocery store
and damaging dozens of other buildings.
Rumors of trouble had circulated for several
days, and parents, ministers and community lead­
ers spent those days asking area youth to stay
home.
On Sunday afternoon, speakers from Seattle
and San Francisco, along with a few locals,
addressed a group of about 150 people, saying
that they were not there to incite riot, but rather
“revolution" which was another matter. The
excited crowd jeered them and began lobbing
rocks and bottles at passing cars, while a group of
four or five beat a park employee.
Fewer people were involved on the second
night, and the police responded immediately to
the flare-up.
Mayor Terry Schrunk and Governor Tom
McCall had alerted the National Guard and
kept them close enough to respond within 10 to
15 minutes if they were needed. In addition, a
contingent of State Police was nearby. McCall
believed this was prudent precisely because
local authorities lacked experience with this
kind of racial situation, so it was better to be
over-prepared than under-prepared.
McCall placed some of the blame for the
incident on Portland's lack of inclination to
finance educational programs that would get to
the root of the sociological di lemma that caused
poverty. The incident left some businesses
boarded up. but communication between Albina
residents and the City of Portland was some­
what improved afterward.
On the first day of Portland's Albina riot,
Detroit, Michigan also experienced devas­
tating race riots that claimed 41 lives and
caused damage estimated at more than $500
million.
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