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Tom McCall's Re-election
Oregon GovernorTom McCall issued this eight-page press release in early September, 1970, during his successful re-election campaign. This is the first page of that statement. …
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Whitman Murders Trial
On November 29, 1847, Protestant missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and twelve others were killed by members of the Waiilatpu band of the Cayuse Indian …
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Willamette National Forest
The Willamette National Forest stretches along the western slope of Oregon’s Cascade Range, from Mount Jefferson south to Windigo Pass near Diamond Lake. …
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Willamette Valley
The Willamette Valley, bounded on the west by the Coast Range and on the east by the Cascades, is the largest river valley in …
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"Innocent Fun or Social Shame?"
This document was created for school administrators by the Urban League of Portland sometime in the 1950s in an effort to stop minstrel, or blackface, …
Oregon History Project
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14th Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution declared that the federal government would guarantee the rights of citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in …
Oregon Encyclopedia
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A Framework for Learning
The non-Indian educational systems in the Pacific Northwest began with the Hudson’s Bay Company and New Englander John Ball, who taught the children of fur …
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A Land and Its People
Southwestern Oregon stretches from the high Cascades west to the Pacific Ocean, and from the California state line north to the Coquille River. Two principal …
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A New City Charter
By 1912, reformers were campaigning for a new city charter, which they said would make government more efficient and accessible to average citizens by having …
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A Tendency toward Conformity
Oregon’s social and cultural life during the 1920s reflected the conventions of a largely homogeneous society, with tendencies toward social, cultural, and religious conformity. Those …
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