Bridging the River: A History of Housing Discrimination in Eugene, Oregon
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Date
2006-03-16
Authors
Neary, Andrew
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Publisher
University of Oregon, Environmental Leadership Program
Abstract
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.
Description
13 p.
Keywords
Discrimination in housing -- Oregon -- Eugene -- History, Housing discrimination