Black History Resources

A weekly newspaper published from 1903-1936: "the only News Paper in the State of Oregon that can be depended upon to fight the battles peculiar to ‘THE RACE.’”

From roughly 1890 to 1968, white Americans enforced "sundown" status in thousands of towns across the United States. This link takes you to the Oregon page of a Tougaloo College project collecting info on these towns.

Confronting our history of racial injustice

From the Oregon Historical Society's Oregon Encyclopedia

Early laws that ensured Oregon would develop as primarily white.

From the Oregon Encyclopedia, a resource of the Oregon Historical Society

From Portland State University and the Oregon Historical Society

Digitized newspaper project from the Library of Congress (This link takes you to a list filtered on "African American.")

An archive of educational resources relating to Black studies, movements, and experiences

Published works with author biographies

The Queer Studies Collections at the Schomburg Center include resources spanning from 1921- 2014.

Maps on the Black migration experience: the slave trade, the Underground Railroad, the Great Migration, emigration from the U.S., and more

Federal and state statutes, treaties, and other documents

Interviews of Black Americans who experienced slavery, recorded between 1932 and 1975

A Library of Congress collection

"To give the Negro traveler information that will keep him from running into difficulties, embarrassments and to make his trips more enjoyable."

One of the nation's richest collections of Civil Rights movement records

Resources on structural racism in the criminal justice system

Images and videos collected by Washington University from the 2014 protests.

Slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866: graphs, maps, a timeline, and an animation