February 9, 2011
The
Portland Observer Black HiStOQ' Month
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Perseverance: Black Pioneers in Oregon
History Center exhibit now showing, downtown
A unique exhibit, d ev elo p ed in
co llab oration w ith the O regon H is
torical Society and the O regon N orth
w est B lack P ioneers, w hich h ig h
lights the env iro n m en t and stories o f
early O regon black pioneers w ho
lived in the state prior to W orld W ar
II, is now show ing through A pril 3 at
the so c iety ’s O regon H istory M u
seum , dow ntow n. P hotographs, m aps
and n ew spaper acco u n ts are used to
detail their daily lives.
A ccording to G w en C arr, c o -c u
rato r o f the exhibit, "M any w ill be
surprised to learn that O regon's black
history began m uch earlier than the
P ortland shipyards. It began instead
o v er 150 years earlier and reached
into every c o m e r o f the state. T his
exhibit focuses on those black people
across the state w ho co n trib u ted to
O regon's earliest history."
T h roughout O regon's early h is
tory, the presence o f A frican A m eri
cans in all parts o f the state was
recorded in d o cu m en ts and p h o to
graphs. T hey cam e to O regon as
slaves and free in spite o f Black
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Woodburn High
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Black Pioneers in
Early Oregon exhibit
at the Oregon
Historical Society.
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identify some of the
exhibit’s faces
without names.
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George Fletcher, Oregon's most famous black cowboy, won fame
in the Pendleton Round-Up in 1911-12. He went on to the
National Cowboy Hall of Fame.
Essayist on Race Featured
c o n t i n u e d f r o m page 3
Center, Sylvania Campus, 12000
S.W. 49th Ave.
Tickets are $ 12 for students and
$ 15 for the general public. The ma
terial in the show is inappropriate
for children.
Proceeds will go toward a cam
paign focusing on the women and
girls of the Democratic Republic of
Congo. Since 1996, sexual violence
against women and girls in the east
ern part of the Congo has been used
as a weapon of war to torture entire
families and whole communities.
In addition, organizers are rais
ing money for the Deborah Evind
W omen’s Leadership Scholarship.
The Sylvania W omen’s Resource
Center, which provides support and
advocacy to assist women from low-
income backgrounds enter college,
is collecting funds in honorof Evind
to benefit its female students -
founder of the center.
Spring registration
starts March 8!
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