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For decades, Oregon legally excluded black people from settling in the region. Despite racists laws and attitudes, some came anyway.
“Oregon’s Black Pioneers” examines the earliest African-Americans who lived and worked in the region during the mid-1800s. They came as sailors, gold miners, farmers and slaves. Their numbers were small, by some estimates just 60 black residents in 1850, but they managed to create communities, and in some cases, take on racist laws — and win.
“Oregon’s Black Pioneers” examines the earliest African-Americans who lived and worked in the region during the mid-1800s. They came as sailors, gold miners, farmers and slaves. Their numbers were small, by some estimates just 60 black residents in 1850, but they managed to create communities, and in some cases, take on racist laws — and win.
Oregon's Black Pioneers
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American History
Racism
Posted 5 y ago
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I was brought up in the inner city of Detroit back in the 1950’s no such thing as blacks go here and whites go here I never knew what racism was until a went into the military I was very poor and lived with people of color I never understood racism I try to judge people not on color but on personal attitude the way you conduct your self if your an ass hole I keep my distance while growing up in Detroit at that time we had to get along we were all in the same boat.
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