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Mega Index
| Title | Body | Location | Source Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Standard Book of Quilt Making and Collection | Marguerite Ickis, 1949, textiles |
746.46 I25 1949 | Library | |
| Key to a Third 1000 Quilt Patterns | Judy Rehmel,1980, textiles |
746.46 R43 1980 | Library | |
| Key to a Second 1000 Quilt Patterns | Judy Rehmel, 1979, textiles |
746.46 R43 1979 | Library | |
| Key to 1000 Quilt Patterns | Judy Rehmel, 1978, textiles, this volume contains revisions in the back. |
746.46 R43 1978 | Library | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Died - Richard Conway | (colored man) 10 Oct 1863 Oregon Sentinel death notice |
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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Colored hobo, T. J. Moore | Ashland Tidings 27 Aug 1894 .... Moore was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| Arrested and Discharged | Joe Mimms, a colored man arrested in Ashland w/ partern, B. L. Tompkins (white) holding religious meetings at Henley, Hornbrook and Pokegama.… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| Statistics of Jackson County | reported in Democratic Times 14 Jan 1871 White Males.................2,382 White Females......... 1,677 … |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| A White Man's Country | undated newspaper clipping ...of 25,756 enumerated by the census, all but 173 were white...56 negroes, 5 Indians, 84 Chinese and 28 Japanese |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| Black Author target of racist vandalism | Medford Mail Tribune clipping 26 Mar 1982 - Black author, Myrtle Span had her duck killed and blood used to write racist comments on sliding glass… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| Talent Items | Medford Mail Newspaper clipping 14 Sep 1894 no headline mentions a black preacher that came to town with a letter of introduction… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects |