Readings African American History

A list of books and articles concerning African American history and culture:

• Bogle, Kathryn Hall. “Oral History Interview: Kathryn Hall Bogle on the African American Experience in Wartime Portland.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 93 (1992) : 394-405.

• Brame, Herman L. African American Athletes in Oregon: A History from 1804 to 1950. Portland, OR : H.L. Brame, 2000.

• Broussard, Albert S. “McCants Stewart: The Struggles of a Black Attorney in the Urban West.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 89 (1988) : 157-179.

• Davis, Lenwood G. “Sources for History of Blacks in Oregon.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 73 (1972) : 196-2111.

• Hogg, Thomas C. “Black Man in White Town.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 63 (1972) : 14-21.

• Johannsen, Robert W. “The Oregon Legislature and the 14th Amendment.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 51 (1950) : 3-12.

• Katz, William Loren. The Black West, 3rd ed. Seattle : Open Hand Publishing, 1987.

• Little, William A. and James E. Weiss. Blacks in Oregon: A Historical and Statistical Report. Portland, OR : Black Studies Center and Center for Population Research and Census, Portland State University, 1978.

• Lockley, Fred. “Some Documentary Records of Slavery in Oregon.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 17 (1916) : 107-115.

• Lovrich, Nicholas P., Jr., Charles H. Sheldon and Erik Wasmann. “The Racial Factor in Nonpartisan Judicial Elections: A Research Note.” Western Political Quarterly 41 (1988) : 807-816.

• McClintock, Thomas C. “James Saules, Peter Burnett, and the Oregon Black Exclusion Law of June 1844.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 86 (1995) : 121-130.

• Millner, Darrell. “African American History of Oregon.” Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History. New York : MacMillan Publishing, 1993.

• Millner, Darrell, et al. Cornerstones of the Community: Buildings of Portland’s African American History. Portland, Ore. : The Bosco-Milligan Foundation, 1995.

• Millner, Darrell. “York of the Corps of Discovery: Interpretations of York’s Character and His Role in the Lewis and Clark Expedition” Oregon Historical Quarterly 104 (2003): .

• Pearson, Rudy. “'A Menace to the Neighborhood’: Housing and African Americans in Portland, 1941-1945.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 102 (2001) : 155-179.

• Ravage, John W. Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier. Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, 1997.

• Richard, K. Keith. “Unwelcome Settlers: Black and Mulatto Oregon Pioneers, Part 1.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 84 (1983) : 29-55.

• Richard, K. Keith. “Unwelcome Settlers: Black and Mulatto Oregon Pioneers, Part 2.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 84 (1983) : 172-205.

• Stroud, Ellen. “Troubled Waters in Ecotopia: Environmental Racism in Portland, Oregon.” Radical History Review 74 (1999) : 65-95.

• Taylor, Quintard. “Contested Regional Stories: Race and Region in The African American Pacific Northwest: The Saga of Susie Revels Cayton and Beatrice Morrow Cannady,” in William Robbins, ed. The Pacific Northwest: A Region in Transition. Corvallis, Ore. : Oregon State University Press, 2000.

• Taylor, Quintard. “The Emergence of Black Communities in the Pacific Northwest, 1865-1910.” Journal of Negro History 64 (Fall, 1979).

• Taylor, Quintard. In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990. New York : Norton, 1998.

• Toll, William. “Black Families and Migration to a Multiracial Society: Portland, Oregon Oregon, 1900-1924.” Journal of American Ethnic History 17 (1988) : 38-70.

• Urban League of Portland. Nonwhite Neighbors and Property Prices in Portland, Oregon and Residential Attitudes toward Negroes as Neighbors. Portland, Ore. : Urban League of Portland, 1956.