The Story of Tent City
| dc.contributor.author | Mims, Willie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2006-06-14T22:46:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2006-06-14T22:46:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
| dc.description | 7 minute, 39 second audio file. | en |
| dc.description.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. Listen to the story of Willie Mims as he recounts his childhood life in the the settlement where Alton Baker Park sits today. | en |
| dc.format.extent | 7359971 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/x-filemaker | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2858 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon, Environmental Leadership Program | en |
| dc.title | The Story of Tent City | en |
| dc.type | Recording, oral | en |