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Mega Index Sources
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| Vertical File Subjects | Booker T. Washington Noted Colored Educator | Ashland Tidings clipping 24 mar 1913 p. 1 - Washington spoke at the M.E. Church to a packed house |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Black in Oregon | Ashland Daily Tidings article 17 May 2004 ... Race relations in Oregon since statehood and discussion of KKK |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | A Boy, A Bicycle, and a Turtle | Ahland LithiaGraph newspaper story about Emerson Vail's (a black boy) dream to become an Olympian |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Self-Defense Is Plea of Negro Held as Slayer | Medford Mail Tribune clipping 9 Jun 1926 p. 2 William Carter, local colored bootblack shot Antone Farris, a local Mexican in the leg |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | The Editor's Last Word | Ashland Tidings 5 Oct 1929... U of O have a problem on their hands. A very bright colored girl applied for admission to the University… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Simon Pure Democracy | Marysville Daily Appeal , Marysville, CA 8 Jul 1862 p 2 clipping Harry Bailey [actually Henry Bailey] married Julianna Johnson .... her hair… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Asland Council Approves Black Lives Statue | Medford Mail Tribune clipping 23 Sep 2022 p. 31 Piece memorializes victims of racially motivated violence by Morgan Rothborne |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Civil Rights Tested | Oregon Sentinel 1 May 1869 mentions a dispute between a German and a black man who were trying to work for Major Glen of Jacksonville to clean up… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Amalgamation | Oregon Sentinel 17 Jun 1863 p. 2 clipping about a "yarn" Copperhead papers were spreading. ..S. Oregon has a a number of staunch Secession… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Died - Richard Conway | (colored man) 10 Oct 1863 Oregon Sentinel death notice |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Accused of a Serious Crime | Ashland Tidings 18 Dec 1899 p. 3 Col. 2 Albert Johnston, a negro, accused of rape |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Albert Johnson, the Spanish negro | Ashland Tidings clipping 21 Dec 1899 pleaded guilty of rape ...sentenced to 15 years |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Excellent Photographic Work | Ashland Tidings 14 Oct 1901 p. 3 Photographer Camps took pictures of the Depot Hotel. Mr. Pracht who runs the hotel installed all white… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | A negro from Yreka, John Wesley Franklin | Ashland Tidings clipping 8 Aug 1884 p. 3 J.W. Franklin came to Ashland to carry brick for the new bank building and caused some trouble. ..… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Jack Berry, a colored man | death notice 10 Jun 1892 unknown source, Jack came with Overbeck family to Oregon |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Oregon Sentinel articles 1860s about Black people | various dates in the 1860s - all copied on one page about the following people of color: Sam, a colored preacher to replace Isaac Jones, Mat Banks… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Veteran of Rogue River Indian War is Wanted | Louis Southworth, a former slave from MO xd the plains in 1852 ... Veteran of the Rogue River Indian War ...lived in Polk County. The… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Samuel Cozzen, an aged negro | Ashland Tidings 13 Feb 1891 clipping Samuel died leaving some valuable property in Jacksonville |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Warren Lee, the colored waiter at the Gold Hill | Gold Hill News 10 Mar 1900...left for his home in Portland. |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Two Parents protest Black School Bus Driver | Medford Mail Tribune clipping 4 may 1978 Ruch Elementary School bus driver, Claude C. Cherry of Ashland continued to serve despite the complaints… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | A Gruesome Discovery | Democratic Times newspaper clipping 7 Aug 1902 p. 1 mentions a suicide on Poorman's Creek on the Beck place - the body of Henry a… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | A D Griffin- Republican | Democratic Times 7 Feb 1898 p. 3 Local Notes A D Friffin, "who is not colored, but born that way," is scheduled to make some Republican speeches… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | War on Kanaka Flat | Democratic Times 18 Sep 1874 clipping about Negro woodchopper, Jackson, shot and killed by Geo. Ephraim |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | the Winter Fights Have Commenced | Democratic Times 16 Dec 1871 p. 3 clipping ... Indian Billy and semi-bleached Alfred Johnson [likely Albert Johnston] whipping the Indian |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Free Fight | Democratic Times 28 Mar 1874 p. 3 A fight between a white, Negro and Indian ... Albert Johnson and a white creature, named Barnhart had a… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Negro Porter Attempts Assault | Central Point Herald clipping 21 Jul 1910 p. 1 13 year old Josephine Moss selected as his victim.... "The coon was almost in the state of collapse… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | David John et al Swackhanner Ex Cannibal | Central Point Hearald 27 Jul 1911 [A black man] Deavid John Henry Allen Zamboss Swackhanner Jr. ... reformed cannibal from Hayti.... claimed to be… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Racial Problems Are Discussed by Jackson County PTA Council | Central Point American newspaper clipping 21 Sep 1944 p. 1 need for labor and education about racial tolerance...applied to the Japanese as… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Famous Colored Hoopsters Visit City Wednesday | Central Point American clipping 14 Feb 1946 World famous Jesse Owens and his Kansas City All-Star colored basketball team were the guests of the… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | The Negro's Victory | Medford Mail Tribune clipping 7 July 1910 p. 4 editorial condemning the "sport" of boxing and saying that it is an activity that only men of color… |
Blacks in Medford |