The Oregon Encyclopedia

Cranberry Industry

Cranberry Industry

The Oregon cranberry is prized for its deep red color, which growers say puts the red in the juice. Historically, native cranberries grew in the northwestern region of the state, harvested by ...

Associated Oregon Industries

Associated Oregon Industries

Associated Oregon Industries (AOI), a private business and advocacy group, was founded in 1895 to advance awareness of products from Oregon. During the twentieth century, AOI evolved into an advocacy organization and ...

Irvin Henry Fletcher (1932-)

Irvin Henry Fletcher (1932-)

Irvin “Irv” Henry Fletcher was president of the Oregon AFL-CIO during the 1980s and 1990s, a period of significant change in the state’s economy. During his tenure, the state’s labor movement morphed from one dominated ...

Labor

Shinzaburo Ban (1854-1926)

Will Daly (1869-1924)

Marie Equi (1872-1952)

Irvin Henry Fletcher (1932-)

Caroline Gleason (1886-1962)

Edith Starrett Green (1910-1987)

Andrew B. Hammond (1848-1934)

William McClendon (1915-1996)

George Putnam (1872-1961)

Julia Ruuttila (1907-1991)

Millie R. Trumbull (1866-1940)

Oswald D. West (1873-1960)

Expulsion of Chinese from Oregon City, 1886

McCarthy Era (late 1940s-late 1950s)

McClellan Committee

Muller v. Oregon (1908)

Toledo Incident of 1925

Associated Oregon Industries

Coin Machine Men

Gyppo Logging in Oregon

Latinos in Oregon

Native American Agricultural Labor

Oregon Commonwealth Federation

Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN)

Populism in Oregon

Bracero Program

Centro Cultural de Washington County

Columbia River Fisherman's Protective Union

Cranberry Industry

Flax and Linen Industry of Oregon

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Kaiser Shipyards

Oregon Industrial Welfare Commission

The Portland Reporter

Seufert Brothers Cannery

Socialist Party of Oregon

Valley Migrant League

Women's Land Army