Februaiy 27. 2 0 0 8 Page B2 ÍW ics I Paul A. Neufeldt 503-875-1695 pan@daos.org graphi Quality Design and Business Support Graphic Design Logos • • Signage Company Identity • • Outdoor Events Ad Design • Web Design m hd 89.1 fm À "•"e-''“ «.''."4''0 “ 2 '20 ° 0 E 8 A T * N V tim e BY; * ' P hone mail X Er cT4Tou" ^ £ ^ s ,T £ . W w w k m h d . o R g G U A R D IN O B lack H istory M onth 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). 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