The Oregon Encyclopedia

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 …

Maxville

Maxville

Maxville, in northeast Oregon east of the town of Wallowa, was home to African American loggers at a time when Oregon’s constitution included a provision excluding blacks from the state. Maxville had …

Thomas Joseph Burns (1876-1957)

Thomas Joseph Burns (1876-1957)

In his fifty-two years in Oregon, Tom Burns threw himself into nearly every liberal movement of his time. His passions galloped from women’s rights to labor reform to socialism. He faced down …

Labor

Eleanor Baldwin (1854-1928)

Shinzaburo Ban (1854-1926)

Thomas Joseph Burns (1876-1957)

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 (essay)

Native American Agricultural Labor

Oregon Commonwealth Federation

Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN)

Populism in Oregon (essay)

Bracero Program

Centro Cultural de Washington County

Columbia River Fisherman's Protective Union

Cranberry Industry

Flax and Linen Industry of Oregon

Four Rivers Cultural Center and Museum

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Kaiser Shipyards

Oregon Industrial Welfare Commission

The Portland Reporter

Seufert Brothers Cannery

Socialist Party of Oregon

Thomas Kay Woolen Mill

Valley Migrant League

Women's Land Army