February 24, 2021
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Bust
York
Appears
in
Park
A memorial bust of York, a
Black slave who was part of
the Lewis and Clark expedi-
tion, has appeared at Mt. Tabor
Park in southeast Portland, the
maker unknown.
The artwork emerged on
Saturday, in the same place
where a statue of Harvey Scott,
a well-known conservative
figure from Oregon’s pioneer
days and a former editor of the
Oregonian who opposed wom-
en’s suffrage, was toppled in
October 2020.
York was enslaved by Wil-
liam Clark, who, along with
Meriwether Lewis, led the ex-
A memorial bust
of York, the black
slave who was part
of the Lewis & Clark
expedition, emerged
in Mt Tabor Park on
Saturday. (AP photo)
pedition to cross into the new-
ly acquired western part of the
country following the Louisi-
ana Purchase in 1803.
The York piece “should
make all of us reflect on the in-
visibility and contributions of
Black, Indigenous, Latinx and
other Oregonians of color—es-
pecially artists,” Carmen Ru-
bio, the city’s commissioner,
said in a statement on Face-
book.
She added that the bust is a
“much-needed reminder to city
leaders to hasten our work of
rooting out white supremacy in
our institutions.”
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