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