The 1960s NAACP Campaign to Integrate Public Housing in Portland
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Date
2007
Authors
Matsumaru, Michael
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University of Oregon
Abstract
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.
Description
Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2008. Awarded a second-place scholarship. 29 p.
Keywords
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Slums -- Oregon -- Portland, Public housing -- Oregon -- Portland