Crossroads of Protest: Historical Connections Between Racial Justice and Other Justice Movements
There are both historical and ongoing connections between the movement for racial justice and other social movements. This guide highlights the historical connection between the racial justice movement and the fight for a broad range of human rights.
Protest in Portland (Historical)
Albina residents picket the destruction of their neighborhood for Emanuel Hospital - 1973.
Photographer uncredited. Source: Oregon Historical Society.
eBooks and Articles about Protest in Portland, Oregon
The Portland Black Panthers: Empowering Albina and Remaking a City by Publication Date: 2016-04-01Combining histories of the city and its African American community with interviews with former Portland Panthers and other key players, this long-overdue account adds complexity to our understanding of the protracted civil rights movement throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Hidden History of Portland, Oregon by Publication Date: 2013-11-12JD Chandler shares the stories of individuals who stood against the tide and fought for liberty and representation in Portland. Among them were C.E.S. Wood, who documented the conflict between Native Americans and the United States Army and Beatrice Morrow Cannady, founding member of the Portland NAACP and first African American woman to practice law in Oregon.
"A Place under the Sun’: African American Resistance to Housing Exclusion". by Melissa Cornelius Lang, published in the Oregon Historical Quarterly, 2018.
"As Citizens of Portland We Must Protest’: Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the African American Response to D.w. Griffith's ‘Masterpiece." by Kimberly Mangun, published in the Oregon Historical Quarterly, 2006.
"What's in a name?”: The University of Oregon, De-Naming Controversies, and the Ethics of Public Memory". by Matthew Dennis and Samuel Reis-Dennis, published in the Oregon Historical Quarterly, 2019.
Print Books about Protest and Portland, Oregon
The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon by Publication Date: 2003-04-06
Radicals in the Rose City: Portland's Revolutionaries 1960-1975 by Publication Date: 2013
Understanding Occupy from Wall Street to Portland by Publication Date: 2013-08-28
Video and Other Media about Protest in Portland, Oregon
Black student union at Reed College seizes offices in Eliot Hall, demand development of Black Culture Curriculum, 1968.
![PROTESTERS FROM FRIENDS OF STUDENT NON-VIOLENT CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE STAND ON STEPS OF FEDERAL COURTHOUSE. [Graphic], 09/17/1963](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/38764/images/Student_protesters_friends_of_sncc.jpg)
Protesters from Friends of Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee stand on steps of federal courthouse. September 17, 1963
- Queer Nation (Portland, Or.) collection, 1989-1993"Papers of an organization of Portland, Oregon, promoting the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered people in the early 1990s. Includes leaflets, posters, correspondence, news clippings, and agendas. Many of the items pertain to the 1992 anti-gay Measure 9 in Oregon, sponsored by the Oregon Citizens Alliance. Most materials were collected by Andrew Leavitt. Also includes materials from other LGBTQ organizations such as ACT-UP and R.A.T.S."
Websites about Protest in Portland, Oregon
- 'Little Beirut' legacy: 21 of the most memorable protests in Portland historyFrom the Oregonian: "The Rose City is known around the world for its demonstrations. On the pages that follow we offer up some of the most interesting, strange and meaningful Portland protests ever."
- Black Portlanders Struggle to be Heard Amid ProtestsThis article, published in The Skanner, a Black owned news source since 1975, focuses on the divided opinions of Portland protesters in the Black Lives Matter protests.
- Oregon ProtestsFrom the Oregon History Project, links to articles about protests for and against a wide range of rights and causes starting in the early days of the state's history.
- Takin’ It to the Streets: Portland’s Protest HistoryPortland Monthly asks "...from 1857 to [2017], which issues have galvanized our city?"
- African American Community Protests School Board, 1982Historical record of one of the demonstrations against the closing of Harriet Tubman Middle School in 1982.
- BPA Office Takeover, 1975"...100 Indian protesters took over the Portland offices of the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), a federal agency that markets power produced by federal dams in the Pacific Northwest. This action was the culmination of almost two weeks of activities organized to protest what Native activists considered to be federal repression on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian reservations."
- Police and Pickets Clash, Stimson Mill, 1935"1935 lumber strike, one of the largest labor strikes in Pacific Northwest history."
- Albina Residents Picket the Portland Development Commission, 1973In laying the groundwork to build an expansion of Emanuel Hospital, the city labeled the historically Black Albina neighborhood as "blighted", to allow the city to tear down hundreds of homes.