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The
Portland Observer Black History Month
February 2, 2011
Community Events
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• Deliberate Destruction: A Look
at the historical displacem ent of
P ortland’s black com m unity. In
the late 1960s and early 1970s,
Emanuel Hospital and the Port­
land Developm ent Com m ission
dem olished a black neighborhood
for a planned - but never funded -
hospital expansion. The expan­
sion exposed serious flaws in how
the PDC operated while also dem ­
o n s tr a tin g th e h o u sin g c o n ­
straints and discrim ination faced
by Portland's African Am erican
population. The legacy o f the
Emanuel Hospital project contin­
ues to echo today and newly dis­
covered docum ents raise trou­
bling questions about why the
destruction was ever allowed. Pre­
sented by Professor Felicia W ill­
iams, Portland State University
Black Studies Departm ent; M on­
day, Feb. 7 at noon The Portland
Building, 10th Floor, Lodgepole
Room.
• Gwen Trice: Loggers Daughter,
Thursday, Feb. 10 at noon. Water
Pollution Control Lab, Bybee Con­
ference Room.
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• Dr. Karen Gibson, PSU Urban
planning Department, presents lec­
ture on Albina's past as a vice dis­
trict, Monday, Feb. 14 at noon at the
Portland Building, 2nd Floor, Audi­
torium.
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the Problems o f Racial Justice in
Portland.” Dr. Karen Gibson, PSU
Urban Planning Department, pre­
sents a talk on the summer of riots
and how the federal government
appointed the Kemere Commission
to look at the root causes. They
found that racial injustice was per­
vasive and the Portland City Club
came to the same conclusion when
they examined the racial situation in
Portland. Prof. Karen Gibson uses
the 1968 Portland City Club Report
"Problems of Racial Justice" to ex­
amine what Portland was like in the
late 1960s and how the search for
racial justice remains relevant to­
day. Monday, Feb. 14 at noon, the
Portland Building, 10th Floor,
Lodgepole Room.
• “Black Political Power and the
South African Anti-Apartheid
Movement in Oregon.” Dr. Ethan
Johnson tells how the Civil Rights
movement spurred black communi­
ties across the U.S. to become ac­
tive in fighting racism in other coun­
tries, most notably in South Africa
where apartheid was federal law. In
Oregon, the anti-apartheid move­
ment focused on divesting PERS
money in the state accounts from
businesses operating in South Af­
rica, but doing that required the
state legislature and the governor
to pass unpopular legislation. Prof.
Johnson looks at the racial context
in Oregon during the 1970s and
1980s and how that shaped the
Black-led anti-apartheid movement
in Oregon with some surprising re­
sults. Monday, Feb. 28 at noon at
the Portland Building, 10th Floor,
Lodgepole Room.
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