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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