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Operations Coordinator -
Perform administrative duties
in support of the Senior
Manager-Building Services and
executive team. Coordinates
reception services, serving
as the organization’s primary
receptionist.
Project
the
welcoming and helpful culture
of United Way by greeting
individuals with a positive,
professional demeanor and
providing them with the highest
level of customer service. Hiring
range: $34,347 - $41,217.
Detailed Job Description and to
apply: www.unitedway-pdx.org/
about/careers. DOE/EOE
Job Opening: Executive
Director of the Miracles Club
The Executive Director will report
to Miracles Board of Directors
and the Miracles Membership.
The Executive Director will
negotiate, implement PDS,
Health
Promotion,
grants/
contracts,
maintain
the
Miracles community recovery
center,
understands
the
principles of P.R.O.s (Peer Run
Organizations), and principles
of supporting culturally specific
recovery from addiction. The
Executive Director will manage
culturally specific peer delivered
services in multiple locations,
inspire recovery, health and
wellness,
demonstrates
leadership skills and the
capacity to be affable and work
constructively with others and
have at least 5 years of senior
leadership experience.
DISCIPLINARY COUNSEL AND
DIRECTOR OF REGULATORY Candidates should e-mail their
SERVICES
cover letter, updated resume,
The Oregon State Bar is looking
for someone to be responsible
for directing and overseeing
the operations of the Oregon
State Bar (OSB) admissions,
disciplinary, and other regulatory
programs.
and salary requirements to:
Mr. Eric Martin at: eric@mhacbo.
org. All applicants must apply
no later than 11:59 PM on
August 25, 2019. If a candidate
wants to receive the entire job
description, please inquire by
Please visit http://www.osbar. e-mailing Mr. Martin.
org/osbcenter/openings.html
for job details.
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African Americans Built Ships and a Legacy
History recalled
in World War II
era exhibit
J aCob n ierenberg
Despite being treated as sec-
ond-class citizens at best, Afri-
can Americans bravely served
the United States in times of war.
While World War II was no dif-
ferent, some of the most import-
ant work that African Americans
were doing to support their coun-
try took place far away from the
battlefield. You can learn about
that work at The National WWII
Museum’s special exhibit, Fight-
ing for the Right to Fight: Afri-
can American Experiences in
World War II, now on display at
the Oregon Historical Society,
where you can also learn about
the brief history of Vanport —a
city that not only helped rebuild
the United States Navy, but
helped integrate the state.
Vanport doesn’t exist any-
more, and by the time it was
destroyed in 1948, many Ore-
gonians wished it didn’t exist,
seeing the city as a ghetto for the
people too black or too poor to
live in Portland. But from 1942
to 1945, Vanport was America’s
largest wartime housing project,
home to thousands of Kaiser
Shipbuilding Company laborers.
At its height in late 1944, rough-
ly 42,000 people lived there,
making it Oregon’s second-larg-
by
est city.
During World War II, two of the
Kaiser Shipyards were in Portland,
with a third across the Columbia
River in Vancouver. The three fa-
cilities produced almost half of the
nearly 1,500 ships built by Kaiser
from its founding in 1939 to the
war’s end. Thousands of people
moved to Portland and Vancou-
ver for work, but the cities lacked
the space to handle the population
boom. To accommodate the new
workers and their families, Van-
port was built in just four months.
Many of these workers were Af-
rican Americans leaving the South.
An estimated 6,000 of them lived
in Vanport in its peak years, giving
the city one of the highest percent-
ages of black residents outside the
South—comparable to Detroit and
Chicago—a fact made all the more
surprising given Oregon’s history.
Years before it joined the United
States, in 1859, Oregon passed a
series of black exclusion laws for-
bidding African Americans from
settling there. Like the Jim Crow
laws of the South, these laws re-
mained on the books until decades
after the Civil War. Before Vanport,
African Americans constituted less
than one percent of Oregon’s pop-
ulation.
The Kaiser Shipyards closed
after the war ended, and when
the jobs left, so did many of Van-
port’s residents. The city’s popu-
lation had fallen by nearly half by
1947; more than one quarter of
those who remained were African
Americans, shut out of Portland
by discriminatory housing prac-
tices. An Oregon Journal article
published that year claimed that
Vanport’s “large colored popu-
lation” made it “undesirable” to
many Oregonians, but conceded
that “as long as over 20,000 peo-
ple can find no other place to go,
Vanport will continue to operate
whether Portland likes it or not.”
On May 30, 1948, Vanport was
washed away in a sudden and cat-
astrophic flood. In the aftermath,
many of the displaced African
Americans resettled in Portland’s
Albina District. The neighbor-
hood was one of the few areas
not off-limits to them, but it was
densely populated by the city’s
preexisting black population.
It’s difficult to tie Vanport’s leg-
acy to the Civil Rights Movement
that would follow. But looking
across the broad sweep of Amer-
ican history, Vanport is emblemat-
ic of how African Americans were
willing to defend the freedom that
they were denied, at home as well
as abroad.
The National WWII Museum’s
special exhibit, Fighting for the
Right to Fight: African American
Experiences in World War II, will
be displayed at the Oregon Histor-
ical Society through Jan. 12.
Jacob Nierenberg graduated
Stanford University with a bache-
lor’s degree in American Studies,
focusing on race and dissent in
post-WWII America, and a mas-
ter’s degree in Journalism.
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