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Oregon’s Black Pioneers

Oregon’s Black Pioneers

This land holds part of the remarkable story of Letitia Carson - one of Oregon’s first Black homesteaders! Letitia arrived in Oregon in the Fall of 1845, just a few months after the repeal of Oregon’s first Black Exclusion Law. The following Spring, the Carson family settled in the Soap Creek Valley, just north of Corvallis. Charlotte has more in this Oregon Black History Snap Shot! #blackhistorysnapshot #hawkinshomestead #blackoregonhistory #oregonblackpioneers #blackinoregon | Oregon Black Pio

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Oregon Experience | Oregon's Black Pioneers | Season 13 | Episode 1

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This is what we do. Charlotte is our Letitia Carson Legacy Project Coordinator. She is tasked with sharing the story and impact of Letitia Carson, one of Oregon’s first Black homesteaders, on the very lands Letitia farmed. If this work matters to you, like it does to us, we hope we can count on your support! If you have the ability to make a donation today, it would greatly help our small nonprofit. Please consider making a gift before December 31 on behalf of your household, or for those who ca

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Spread the word and tune in! Join Oregon Black Pioneers (OBP), Oregon's only statewide African American historical society, for its next episode of Black History Quest on Tuesday, November 19th, at 7:00 pm PST. Black History Quest is a bi-monthly history program, broadcasted live on the OBP YouTube page. Each episode of Black History Quest features a different "History Investigator" who has been commissioned to look into the stories behind under-researched topics in the OBP archive. For November

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