Building BackGround Knowledge

Teaching Black History in Oregon

Background Information and Other Resources


Videos from Oregon Public Broadcasting

Oregon’s Black Pioneers

https://watch.opb.org/video/oregons-black-pioneers-zxzlwp/


Local Color

https://watch.opb.org/video/opb-specials-local-color/


Portland Civil Rights: Lift Ev’ry Voice

https://watch.opb.org/video/oregon-experience-portland-civil-rights-lift-evry-voice/


Vanport

https://watch.opb.org/video/oregon-experience-vanport/


Jazz Town

https://watch.opb.org/video/oregon-experience-jazz-town/


Articles/Essays

This History of Black Portland: Secondary Sources from the Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs curriculum

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vwTZ_ESEKO36r-zEqkpsTK02_iSKKM4MoJnDGT3SbRY/edit#heading=h.os8g4jwkfcaz


“Blacks in Oregon,” Oregon Encyclopedia

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/blacks_in_oregon/#.X_-bgthKhPY


Bleeding Albina: A History of Community Investment, 1940-2000” by Gibson, Karen J. “Transforming Anthropology. Vol. 15, Numbers 1, pps 3-25. 2007. http://kingneighborhood.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/BLEEDING-ALBINA_-A-HISTORY-OF-COMMUNITY-DISINVESTMENT-1940%E2%80%932000.pdf


“Black and Blue: Police-Community Relations in Portland’s Albina District, 1964-1985” by Serbula, L. and Gibson, K Oregon Historical Quarterly, 114 (1). 2013.

https://www.ohs.org/research-and-library/oregon-historical-quarterly/upload/serbulo-gibson_black-and-blue.pdf


“Desegregation and Multiculturalism in the Portland Public Schools” by Johnson, Ethan and Felicia Williams. Oregon Historical Quarterly, vol. 111, no. 1.

lhttp://www.ohs.org/research-and-library/oregon-historical-quarterly/upload/OHQ_111_1-Johnson-and-Williams_PPS.pdf


“Displacement in North and Northeast Portland- An Historical Overview.” Portland Housing Bureau. https://www.portlandoregon.gov/phb/article/655460?


Johnson, Katharine. “Why is This the Only Place in Portland I See Black People?” Rethinking Schools, Vol. 27, No. 1, Fall, 2012. 26 June 26, 2013. http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/27_01/27_01_johnson.shtml


Books/Essay Collections

White Supremacy and Resistance, Oregon Historical Quarterly special issue Winter 2019

https://www.ohs.org/research-and-library/oregon-historical-quarterly/back-issues/winter-2019.cfm


The Portland Black Panthers: Empowering Albina and Remaking a City by Lucas N.N. Burke and Judson L. Jeffries. University of Washington Press, WA: 2017

https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295742717/the-portland-black-panthers/


African Americans of Portland from the Oregon Black Pioneers

https://oregonblackpioneers.org/product/african-americans-of-portland-images-of-america/



Websites

Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs: The Black History of Portland, Oregon curriculum

https://sites.google.com/view/pdxblackhistory/home


Blackness and Anti-Black Racism in Portland: Resources for the Music Community

https://musicportland.org/blm


Racial Dot Map

http://racialdotmap.demographics.coopercenter.org/



Resources for Teaching Black History

Teaching for Black Lives, Edited by Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, and Wayne Au. Rethinking Schools, 2018.

https://rethinkingschools.org/books/teaching-for-black-lives/


Teaching Hard History: American Slavery from Teaching Tolerance

https://www.tolerance.org/frameworks/teaching-hard-history/american-slavery


Resource guide from the National Museum of African American History and Culture

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/nmaahc-digital-resources-guide


Monument Lab: a hands-on approach for examining local monuments

https://monumentlab.com/projects/field-trip