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May 24, 2017
Celebrates Pastor’s 20th Anniversary
Sunday, June 4, 2017 4:00PM
Location: Maranatha Church, 4222 NE 12th Avenue
Theme:
“I can’t come down, I am doing a great work”
--Nehemiah 6:3
Rev, Dr. LeRoy Haynes
Keynote Speaker:
Reverend, Robert C. Jointer
Bethesda Baptist Church
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C ontinued froM f ront
water fountain.
“They didn’t care about my col-
or. We played together. The teachers
were just fabulous,” she said.
Outside of Vanport, a different
reality existed for the black commu-
nity. Signs hung in nearby Portland
store windows saying: “No colored
allowed. We serve whites only.”
Moss’s mother would go once
a month to shop at the now closed
Newberry’s store downtown and as
a treat would buy chocolate covered
peanuts from the restaurant, but said
only white people could sit and eat
at the lunch counter.
Moss recalls with fondness the
school she attended in Vanport with
her brother and sister. Moss was
given the nickname Caldonia after
the Louis Jordan hit and the neigh-
borhood boys would tease her with
a lyric from the song: “What makes
your big head so hard?” She took
regular classes and enjoyed elec-
tives like home economics, sewing
and basketball.
An experience in gym class
brought back the memories of seg-
regation she learned in the South.
She fouled a girl in a game of bas-
ketball and suddenly became ter-
rified that she wasn’t supposed to
touch white people under the norms
of prejudice so prevalent at the time.
“All that came back from when
we were living in Tallulah,” she
said. “I had wrapped my arm around
a post and the teacher came by and
said ‘What’s the matter, Marge?’ I
told her, I touched the girl and the
teacher said: “That’s okay. That’s
okay. It’s just a game. I couldn’t get
the message and could not let go of
the pole, but the teacher was so nice
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Memories of Vanport
to me.”
On Sunday, May 30, 1948 Moss
was making dinner with her moth-
er at home in Vanport, and her sib-
lings were at the movies when the
flood alarm began to sound. Her
father rushed to the theater to grab
the children and a dinner guest, who
was one of the few to own a car, and
they piled the Moss family inside
the vehicle to escape to safety.
Once they reached Denver Ave-
nue, Moss looked out at what was
once the most welcoming town in
her young life and saw the wooden
houses uprooted and floating.
The family lost everything in the
flood, except her mother’s sewing
machine, which she requested to
be put in the car at the last minute.
A city bus transported Moss and
others to Boise School in north
Portland which served as an evac-
uation center. She saw hundreds of
people in tears, feeling lost and in
shock. The government provided
a more permanent shelter for the
Moss family in an apartment near
the Willamette River, but the loca-
tion terrified her because it was so
close to another river that was seen
as dangerous because of high spring
runoffs.
Moss says she suffered from post
traumatic stress disorder for years
after the Vanport flood, not from
just witnessing the destruction, but
also from losing a community that
was open and inviting to her as a
young African American girl.
“For us, Vanport was a good
place to be,” she said. “There are
people who say it wasn’t, unfortu-
nately many of them are from the
white community. But, the story is
coming out now and I’m so proud
to be a part of it.”
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