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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 2016)
It Starts With You Ballots Due High turnout expected QR code for Portland Observer Online Community-based learning for local youth See Local News, page 3 See Metro, page 11 ‘City of Roses’ Volume XLV Number 44 www.portlandobserver.com Wednesday • November 2, 2016 Established in 1970 Committed to Cultural Diversity Nearly 70 years of Gordly family history and memories live in the walls of their childhood home at 4511 N. Williams Ave. Historical pictures (clockwise, from left) show parents Beatrice and Fay L. Gordly; the family’s red couch where brother Tyrone Gordly sits next to his sisters Avel and Faye, Faye’s new born daughter Michelle on her lap and Avel’s young son Tyrone; Jefferson High School students sitting outside the home after an educational tour; and Avel and Faye as children. Preserving Black Portland Gordly family home to be cultural center C ervante P oPe t he P ortland o bserver Dreams of a historic center to honor of by the black community and dispel Portland’s designation as the “whitest major city in America” is the force behind a plan to transform the home of one of Portland’s most prominent African American figures into a home base for recognizing and pre- serving the city’s most repressed popula- tion. On North Williams Avenue sits the childhood home of Oregon’s first African American female senator, Avel Gordly and her sister Faye Burch, a small business owner and advocate. The home has remained in the fami- C ontinued on P age 15
