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Facing Wartime Challenges:
While labor
demands bring
opportunity
World War II was both an in
tense challenge and a significant
opportunity for blacks in Portland.
Acute labor shortages and a
booming wartime industrial job
market expanded Portland’s Afri
can-A m erican population from
2,565 in 1940to 25,000 in 1944. The
demand for labor, along with the
wartime Fair Employment Practices
Commission, buffered to some ex
tent the racism that permeated
Portland's private industry and lo
cal unions.
In her memoirs, Kathryn Hall
Bogle, recalled her wartime experi
PHOTO t ()l RTESY OF THE OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ence working as one of the first
black women to hold an office po Signs similar to this one in 1943 across the street from the Kenton Theater in north Portland
sition in government at the U.S. popped up all around town during World War II.
Employment Office.
ued through the wartime era in the ued to operate already established
There, Hall witnessed wartime their ranks.
At the same time, blaeks were job market and in urban housing institutions in Portland that sought
racism as well as new opportuni
ties offered blacks in the public hired freely for common labor and standards. Blaeks did not sit by to provide a voice for Portland’s
black residents. Through today
sector. For instance. Hall recalled in all shipyards except the Albina idly, however.
Several agencies, including the these groups continue to represent
blaeks being turned down for Shipyard, which was privately
Portland
branch of the N A ACP, the P o rtla n d ’s black com m unity
specialized jobs they had worked owned. T raining programs for ship
Urban
League,
the Office of Voca through education, employment
all their lives including steve yard skil Is and shipyard crafts were
tional
Opportunity,
and the Com programs, legal representation, and
dores, truck drivers, and laundry also offered to blaeks and whites
mittee
on
Inter-Racial
Principles and the promotion of equality and civil
workers because of union laws alike.
Practices,
established
and contin- rights.
Racism
against
blaeks
contin
that did not allow blaeks to join
Novel Depicts Horror of Lynching
in effect, secretly cross enemy lines,
disguising their true identities—
has, interestingly enough, found
new currency in post-m odern
It’s become a cliche to say that America, with famous light-skinned
both lynching and “passing" are blaeks now being able to publicly
parts of the African-American ex claim their intra-raeial "diversity,"
perience most Americans, includ in effect refusing to take a side in
ing and perhaps especially African the classic divide.
Americans, would like to forget.
Taking a side is what this graphic
However, the recent Jena 6 novel, a fictional tribute to NA ACP
ease— in which nooses were found leader Walter W hite's death-defy
under a tree where black teenagers ing lynching investigations almost
were allowed to sit near a Louisiana a century ago, is all about.
high school— have brought up the
Harlemite Zane Pinchbaek’s se
ugly history of lynching again.
cret identity is "Incognegro," the town. The New Holland Herald (an
“ P assing”— in w hich lig h t muckraking investigative columnist obvious play on The New York
skinned African Americans would, for the best black newspaper in Amsterdam News). H e's light-
‘Incognegro’
goes undercover
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‘The Inspirational Legacy of AI Forthan’
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thought to cheek his ear before he
sped away.
The experience knocked me so
off balance," Lorthan said, “my
body went into some kind of shock,
I couldn't stop shaking for days
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Rotary President Dick Clark
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"The Inspirational Legacy o f Al
Forthan" film premiere on March 13
is a fundraiser for the Al Forthan
Memorial Recovery Scholarship.
Three $ I .(MX) scholarships will be
awarded this year, one specifically
to a senior from Jefferson High
School (Forthan's alma mater) and
one specifically to a senior from
Centennial High School. The third
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school seniors.
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and includes refreshments. Doors
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afterwards. I knew then that things
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lime to get some real help."
Several months later, while once
again in jail, an intake coordinator
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America Oregon entered Forthan's
life and he was admitted to the
treatment program.
During the next few intense
months, the training he received
helped him recognize how his false
perceptions about himself and his
world had distorted his thinking.
Lor the first time in his life, he began
to see hope for recovery as he found
the understanding and strength to
make some permanent changes.
After completing the program.
Lorthan enrolled in the Portland
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Associates degree in Alcohol and
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He was a model student, on the
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skinned enough to “pass,” so he
can investigate lynchings close
up, literally risking his neck in the
process. Although he wants to
place his real byline into the Harlem
Renaissance vortex swirling around
him. he's summoned back to wear
the mask one more time to free his
brother, who’s been framed for the
murder of a white woman.
Author Mat Johnson beautifully
alternates humor and horror, turn
ing even a profanity-filled phrase
as easily as blood Bowed from the
lynching trees. Illustrator Warren
Pleeee's simplicity in draftsman
ship keeps attention on the story
and characters, not pretty pictures.
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