Environmental Leadership Program

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The Environmental Leadership Program is part of the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program. We provide graduate and undergraduate students an opportunity to team up with government agencies, non-profit organizations, and local businesses to work on real-world environmental monitoring, mapping, and education and outreach projects. Our projects offer students capstone learning experiences that put into practice the principles, knowledge, and skills they are pursuing in their academic work.

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    Bridging the River: A History of Housing Discrimination in Eugene, Oregon
    (University of Oregon, Environmental Leadership Program, 2006-03-16) Neary, Andrew
    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.