A biography of Mary Jane Holmes Shipley Drake – one of Oregon’s the first African Americans to live nearly their entire life in Oregon and was the matriarch of a large family of early Black residents.
A biography of Hattie Redmond – an early Black activist and one of the most prominent members of Oregon’s woman suffrage movement in the...
A biography of Charles Jordan – Portland’s first Black city commissioner, and a longtime director of Portland City Parks.
Geraldine Hammond – a long time Salem educator and the first Black school principal in the Salem-Keizer school district.