Neary, Andrew2006-06-142006-06-142006-03-16https://hdl.handle.net/1794/285713 p.The story of Tent City is one of harsh treatment of African Americans who were migrating to Eugene, Oregon in the 1940s. It is a story of descrimination and racism in the West where these issues were not as visible as they were in the South. It is a story of a settlement built of scrap lumber on the muddy floodplain of the Willamette River, held together by a stong sense of community and a faith in a better future. This paper that further develops the story of this community as well as the larger issue of housing descrimination in Eugene at the time.55943 bytesapplication/pdfen-USDiscrimination in housing -- Oregon -- Eugene -- HistoryHousing discriminationArticle