It was illegal for Black people to even move to Oregon until 1927.

And in what I’m sure is completely unrelated news, Black people comprise only two percent of the state’s population (as compared to 13.2 percent nationally)

More on Oregon’s Exclusionary Black Laws » here

(via odinsblog)

see also:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWC-8hvP7aY

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