Golden West Hotel - Tour Guide

12/22/2024

INDEX -- This is a 75-minute video by Jim Lockhart of Dr. Bob Zybach's November 18, 2024 79-slide PowerPoint presentation to the Douglas County (Oregon) Hist...

11/03/2024

Bring history to life with our printable activity pages! Download a Streets of Albina word search, a Louis Southworth maze, a coloring page with cowboy hero George Fletcher, and a cut-and-paste covered wagon highlighting Amanda Gardner's Oregon Trail journey.

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05/14/2024

Join us for the First Annual Letitia Carson Legacy Project Symposium!

Tuesday, May 21, at the OSU Corvallis Campus, OBP’s Zachary Stocks will discuss Letitia Carson and the history of Oregon, the West, and the United States. Members of the Letitia Carson Legacy Project will also share updates on research and new explorations, different perspectives on the land, and a site vision and designs for enhanced visitor experiences at the land. After the symposium, guests are invited to visit the Carson lands with the LCLP team members.

Space is limited, please register and find out more here: bit.ly/LCLPSymposium
The LCLP is a partnership of Black Oregon Land Trust, Oregon Black Pioneers, the Benton NAACP Branch, Mudbone Grown LLC.. and Oregon State University

Photo: Grandma's Hands at the Carson lands.

02/09/2024

Oregon Black History Spotlight: Dick Bogle

Dick Bogle was a landmark reporter and politician. Born in Portland in 1930, his father descended from an early Oregon pioneer family and his mother was well known writer and activist Kathryn Hall Bogle. Dick attended OSU and Vanport College before taking a job as a music reporter at The Oregonian in 1952. From 1959 to 1967, Bogle worked as a Portland police officer, but continued his newspaper work.

KATU News hired Bogle to be a correspondent, the first Black on-air reporting in Portland history. In 1973, he became the anchor for the channel’s “Eyewitness News” program. In 1984, Dick Bogle ran to replace outgoing Portland city councilor Charles Jordan and won. He would be reelected to this same office in 1988.

Bogle endeavored to represent the interests of Black Portland during his time in office and remained a prominent local figure for years after. He resumed his reporting on jazz music and hosted a radio show. From 2008-2010 Bogle was a volunteer member of Portland Police Bureau’s cold case unit, working to try and resolve unsolved murders.

Help preserve Oregon's Black history by supporting OBP this ! Our goal is $100 a day for February, please consider making a donation today! https://oregonblackpioneers.org/donate/

01/27/2024

One of the most important landmarks in Portland’s Black history was the Golden West Hotel. In the early 1900s, it was the center of Black life in Portland.

12/29/2023

11/14/2023

08/23/2023

Oregon Black Pioneer’s Executive Director Zachary Stocks was invited to the Oregon State Library to witness Senate Bill 1050 being signed into law.

Oregon Black Pioneers believes that any course on Oregon history that overlooks the contributions of Black Oregonians is incomplete. We work with teachers to create lesson plans and learning materials which tell a more inclusive story, and which celebrate our state’s diverse cultural heritage. All materials are aligned with state social studies and ethnic studies standards. Download any or all of our lesson plans for free on our new website!

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08/20/2023

In this 1989 photo, then-City Commissioner Dick Bogle (right) www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/bogle_dick_1930_2010/ and his mother Kathryn Hall Bogle https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/bogle-kathryn-1906-2003/ examine a turn-of-the-century barber pole from the Golden West Hotel https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/golden-west-hotel-portland-1906-1931/ that may have belonged to Dick's grandfather, Kathryn's father-in-law, Waldo. Inspecting the object with them are Margaret Strachan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Strachan and Richard Buddy Bogle Dick's Son.
Read More: https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2022/02/golden-west-hotel-portlands-black-cultural-hub-before-falling-into-disrepair-makes-case-for-national-recognition.html

06/22/2023

Stipend for the travel, Document fees, meetings, interviews Etc which I hope could be made into a documentary one day and a publication of some sort