Matsumaru, Michael2008-04-142008-04-142007https://hdl.handle.net/1794/5918Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2008. Awarded a second-place scholarship. 29 p.Like many other cities in the U.S. during the 1960s, Portland, Oregon featured an undeniable black ghetto, located in the heart of its Albina district. The Portland branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) struggled throughout the 1960s to keep local government from perpetuating the existing ghetto. For years, the NAACP and other civil rights organizations protested plans from the Housing Authority of Portland (HAP) to build federally subsidized public housing units in the heart of Albina.230022 bytesapplication/pdfen-USNational Association for the Advancement of Colored PeopleSlums -- Oregon -- PortlandPublic housing -- Oregon -- PortlandArticle