Oregon’s Black Pioneers: Full Documentary | Oregon Experience | OPB

[@michaelknapp8961]

Back in the 1980s my father was given a 19th century picture book of our family ancestors from the 1800s. I was 18 years old and I was flipping through the black and white images. I came across a married couple. The husband was white and his wife was clearly black! I showed my father the picture and we looked them up in our genealogy. Our family are direct descendants of these two people. The pic was taken in 1871 in eastern Oregon. They had children and their children had children and it led to us. I just wanted you to know how proud I am of this. I’m much more proud of this than my Irish heritage. Somewhere deep deep deep in my DNA is this black woman’s genetic background. I don’t know anything more about them and don’t know where they ended up. It just kinda showed how connected us humans truly are in this big world of ours.

[@StranglyForbidden]

I live in eastern Oregon

[@amykins9870]

Is it your moms side you may have her mitochondrial DNA her Y chromosome.

[@diginandpitchin]

@@michaelknapp8961 🙏🏾

[@angelmossucco]

@@michaelknapp8961 Barack Obama‘s grandparents were Irish and African-American

[@Sari-S1S]

This is great to learn all this. I have lived in Oregon since I was 5 and it's a shame that this history wasn't covered when we studied the Pioneers. Passing this history on!

[@mrmighty9862]

You’re kidding right?

[@douglas_fir]

Because it's irrelevant and only shown for subversive reasons. The US writ large is characterized between the struggle/war/ethnogenesis between the first nations tribe and the Britons. These are the founding races of America, of which the latter doesn't exist without them. All else is a fringe footnote.

[@MissCharliechop]

A part of history not popularly known, but a story that needs to be told and shared. Thank you for sharing!

[@tdestroyer4780]

Shove it down everyone's throat too. As if we're not being preached to enough these days

[@DHDivineONE]

@@tdestroyer4780 We get Columbus and a lot more bs history shoved down are throats all year round are whole life

[@PatriciaHenry]

@@DHDivineONE our not are. 👍🏽

[@stephenlawrence9429]

@@PatriciaHenry be quiet lady nobody has time for your nagging and picking . That was clearly a typo above your comment.

[@daveodell700]

Black history is American history...let’s start teaching ALL of it to EVERYONE.

[@ratehhuti1861]

No disrespect to anyone, but the first Americans were Blacks AKA African Americans which was here first the Hidden History Of the Americas. They was here before the wave of Asians [Indians] , Caucasians, Arabians. They was first all over the world at one time Black or Brown People the biggest kept secret. But our Creator will balance out everything to reveal the truth and filter out evil.

[@alexw853]

Freedmen's history. Don't start trying to squeeze in all cultures of immigrant Blacks. The native Blacks are Freedmen. The Blacks connected to RECONSTRUCTION.

[@alexw853]

@@ratehhuti1861 Aboriginal people you mean and our federal status is Freedmen. I also learned that not all Black Americans were enslaved.b

[@verdeoaks6159]

@@alexw853facts.

[@verdeoaks6159]

@@alexw853our nation has been overrun by Nazis with a serious infestation of roaches and rats.

[@tracyclark7560]

Incredible. Moving, inspirational, well documented. PBS does it better than any other media.

[@NellieKAdaba]

True

[@walterlinney9321]

This is the 1st time I heard about Black people in the north west United States. Thanks for the Black history lesson.

[@i-35vagabond56]

I have never been to Oregon or the US Northwest, but I found this to be an extremely interesting, captivating history program. History class would have been so much more enjoyable if we had been shown videos like this when I was in school. History class, more often than not, could be an excruciatingly dry hour to sit through and basicly consisted of taking notes of important names and dates to memorize in order to receive a passing grade.

[@Jeremyho439]

It is a great place as long as you don’t stay in the progressive cities

[@paustinheaton]

Fascinating history. Thank you for posting.

[@joylynne8]

Thank you for posting this video. It is very informative.

[@dylanjennings1687]

Amazing! History major here that has lived in Oregon his whole life and never knew any of this! Plus, so cool to see my name on an old hotel! Both sides of my family went across the Oregon trail and can’t help but wonder if I’m somehow related to that Jennings.

[@elaztec.aztecca]

Leticia Carson was a wonderful and strong woman and I’m glad she met that attorney.

[@reginaromsey]

Wonderful presentation. History that I would really prefer not to be true, but the proof is there for all to see. If at all possible I would love to have one person or family followed more in depth, and possibly to the present day. It seems too that with the people deserving shame, there are many who stood up for right.

[@ORWWmedia]

You can learn more about Letitia Carson and her descendants, including prominent members of the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla: nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Articles/Magazines/OSB_Bulletin/20161001_Letitia_Carson/index.html

[@tylerjayde5886]

It’s crazy that I graduated from a high school in Oregon and I only heard about the exclusion laws and such recently

[@pseudonymphmusic7721]

Yup they too ashamed to own up until now

[@crujones4046]

@@pseudonymphmusic7721 at that time even Africans were selling other Africans. It was world wide not just in Oregon. I am only ashamed of my own actions, and not others past aggressions. Have a good day.

[@amongusbaddje1446]

learned this in school it’s interesting to watch this documentary living in oregon and all

[@AzucaNegra16]

Thank you much. This is very informative.

[@christinelachance8012]

Excellent program, thank you

[@sahpem4425]

I appreciate this. I’ve always loved Oregon pioneer history. I’ve read a lot about it over the years but there isn’t much on African American pioneers. Later, I discovered I mostly have relatively modern Irish ancestors and probably no pioneer history. How’s that for irony?

[@Xoxoquan]

🥰 i really enjoyed this!

[@djt.y9314]

🥳 me too

[@amayaramirez3075]

I have heard of this in school a bit and i live in Oregon. But i don't think they talk about it that much in schools and i think they should in schools. Im in high school now it's very interesting to hear about this history

[@dalegrays8053]

Never heard this in Oregon! This Genealogy and Generation has Alot to Answer with ALMIGHTY GOD and Jesus Christ of mistreating his human Races

[@aliceknows3375]

I was traveling through Oregon and saw no African American people so I immediately googled demographics. Then I looked up the history of the state. I knew the state had racist origins, but still was not aware how prevalent. Thank you for this documentation.

[@ßearhammer]

Buffalo soldiers massacred the natives of all the Oregon territory natives that’s 4 states, and so you gotta understand that they were scared of Africans after that.

[@danielt.3152]

Watching this was depressing to me, the sad state of government in places like this was horrendous. I am Jewish and I know all to well that the fate of other minorities is the same as mine.

[@coolstormracismsux3221]

So true. They hate blacks, Jews and Democrats. Racism and greed is devouring this country from the inside out. America has a lot of blood on her hands but she will fall.

[@stephanieclark6154]

Outstanding presentation 👏🏿

[@chocolatetye797]

Portland has been my home for over 40 years, and I didn't even know this... My neighbor a white woman, she said, "oh, I know all about the racist history in Oregon."

[@stella-vu8vh]

You are really pretty! I'm sorry your neighbor is a virtue signaling performative political activist and i bet she's openly racist as hell and doesn't understand she's overt

[@chocolatetye797]

@@stella-vu8vh thank you... She's a closet racist.... You know, the ones who go over the top to please you...

[@Drjulie804]

I am Black and have never related Oregon and Black people ever. In fact, i have often said with certainty that Black people don't live in Oregon. Thank you for enlightening me.

[@triniciaeverett8673]

Lol!! My family has been there since the late 1960's/1970's upon leaving South Louisiana.

[@PendeltonWhiskey]

@Drjulie804 - you need to get out more

[@Drjulie804]

@@PendeltonWhiskey ha. Perhaps you are right. Happy KZbin is educating me

[@elainedoornbos3566]

I wish someone would make movies about these brave people...even, the Mims Home in Eugene, OR where Duke Ellington, Ray Charles & Ella Fitzgerald HAD to stay when, they came to sing, perform & play...SO, NOTEWORTHY BUT, HIDDEN!!

[@ORWWmedia]

I have been wanting to do a screenplay on Letitia Carson for more than 20 years -- or at least complete her biography! nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Articles/Magazines/OSB_Bulletin/20161001_Letitia_Carson/index.html

[@PatriciaHenry]

This kind of mess happened in every place everywhere. Unfair laws tailored to suppress another fellow man. Sad that humans consistently choose to do evil things to one another.

[@ram29jackson]

Some of the blacks could have been local Indians to begin with. It's always been their land

[@ratehhuti1861]

That is true because the original people of the Americas were the copper colored people ranging from different skin tones. They was here before the American Indians which they was the Native Americans to different terms. American Indians was a mixture of original people Olmecs [Black People] and Asians who cross the Beiring Strait and later the Caucasians who came later to the Americas. Then you started to have more tribes form there to now.

[@verdeoaks6159]

Indians and cowboys were created by the Jews who created Hollywood. Watch a doc called “Hollywoodism”. This nation was stolen and the heirs are in wonderland. No Indians or turtle island. The were law men. Men that created the law and the only ones with the ability to give power on this most Holy land.

[@vmaultsby]

Yes

[@promayes8186]

This is great info that needs to be shared

[@shortycruz4232]

Inspirational!

[@kayeemerson6892]

I'm from Alabama and I thought it was racist but this tops the cake

[@valdoelchino3961]

Dam well that’s cool to know about the land your on . I’m not black .but I feel smarter watching this shit than tik tok or whatever it is out there

[@aprilrobinson7713]

So interesting. Thank you

[@DawnFrear]

In Roseburg Oregon in the fifties it had a sign it blacks weren't allowed after sunset or they wouldn't be protected after sunset I know this cuz it's my home state my hometown I know my history on my hometown in my home state so

[@sapperj569]

Heard bout them safety measures as a kid & dismissed it as looking out. Now I see as threatened people that created hostility that never needed be started. But that didn’t stop them Chinese people getting slaughtered for gold dust not far from Lakeview. K-Falls.

[@margaretrichardson2777]

C 😊

[@dawnvickerstaff]

I'm just amazed. I grew up in Portland. I had black neighbors. I went to school with black kids. I remember twins whose first name, for both of them, was 'Edwina.' They were the smartest girls in my class. They weren't invisible. There was racism. The old trope of 'you wouldn't want your daughter to marry one' was still rife, but many black and white people worked together, were friends, dated each other, went to school together, and did it all peaceably. That was in the fifties and sixties. While it is true that the history of blacks in Oregon isn't well known, I was taught that Oregon had 'sundowner' laws which were universally abhorred by my friends and family. We knew that blacks had been a part of Oregon from the beginning. In my neighborhood, we had a wonderful black church in an old, steepled, white clapboard building. You could hear the gospel music and the full-voiced choir every Sunday. It was one of the churches my mother would send us to. She wasn't picky about denomination as long as it was near, and it meant she could send us and sleep in. It was one of my favorites as a little seven-year-old white girl. I think programs like this are important but so is the experience of ordinary people.

[@valritz3100]

Thank you

[@CountDomula]

I think that this history is relatively unknown due previous narratives that there were no blacks in Oregon before WW2; effectively silencing black voices from the past. Anyone interested in this history would do well to read "Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940.' I imagine much of this video comes from that book.

[@swhite8303]

Dane and Taneisha Calloway wrote a book on how to Trace Your Family’s Genealogy History by Records.

[@alicerobertson5660]

Very important information first time hearing about oregon history.

[@MrTwenty20video]

✔ Thank you.

[@derekbervin3532]

Noticing the parks and that concrete little piller on this album

[@timothywellington4154]

Thank you OPD, 😊 Our country still has a long way to go . To turely turely understand what the racises laws did in blocking our / mental state of mind. I am from Los Angeles Ca. An still can see 'mentally' Black water and White w fountains in South-west , L.A. other discrimination in the Hollywood areas. My story is nothing to compare to the earlier years our USA. it's a metal issue, yet we smile and whole Heartly LOVE all Peoples ; and here it is more than think. Black folks knows we are under ' God's aumbra of LOVE ', For All Peoples. USA is still in Spiritual races Warfare... Min. T.L.W.

[@carolutley6523]

We can make sure that it doesn't happen again, by voting 😉

[@derekbervin3532]

And you know I have been calling it how I have been here for the longest time now...

[@LarryJohnson-wk2nq]

Amazing

[@marcusvachon845]

Ty Burrell, the actor that portrayed Phil Dunphy, is a descendant of a Black lady that lived in Oregon during the late 19th century. He found out by being on Finding Your Roots with Dr. Gates.

[@Kalik8000]

"That history has already happened, you can't change it. The best thing that you can do is really tell the truth about it and acknowledge it and move on, and say: we know this was wrong and we're going to work to see that this never happens again". Ase' O

[@adpowell1414]

James Douglas was white, drop of "black blood" or not. The truth is that, even in the USA, whiteness depended on a mixture of looks and performance instead of "purity" of European lineage.

[@PendeltonWhiskey]

I was very glad to see George Washington Bush mentioned here. He was a fascinating man

[@annielast2577]

Interesting history facts. My great-grandmother’s father on my Mother’s side was a white man family accepted him in family linage. My grandfather on my mother’s side was from Africa, who was brought on the last slave ship from Africa with no other family members. He was a young boy and didn’t know how old he was. So on his tombstone is his name and death date which is August 1941.❤

[@joseph_the_human]

The term "buying your freedom" stands out to me. 11:31

[@Spiritree41]

Thanks for this documentary. According to my dna we were in Oregon 6000 bc

[@yomammascan]

No!

[@MJ-hg1mk]

It is what it is, folks... Believe it. I been here long enough. Bout to be out.

[@cmebans35]

Great information Black History is important everyday July 1 2024

[@carmenhomer1965]

Enjoyed learning about Oregon

[@Jeremyho439]

I was the first Chinese pioneer settled in Gladstone, Oregon.

[@MrDevonimation]

Great program, thank you. One critical correction - pioneer George Bush from 1844 (in group with Michael T. Simmons), there's no "Washington" in his name. This was confusion from Centralia black pioneer George Washington. Reported incorrectly for nearly a century in history books - let's get it right. George Bush settled Tumwater, WA area. Black history matters!

[@KseaPetersen]

My maternal family hired black men to do forestry work on their logging property in the woods near Astoria and Seasode Oregon .

[@derekbervin3532]

And that's in a different time bases or zones

[@jabbarinnewyork7778]

SOME OF THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT BLACK, THEY ARE GOLD. THEY ARE GOLD PIONEERS

[@Administrator7]

If the black man was in Oregon in 1789 he wasn't African American, he was Spanish

[@louismeraz5323]

Can't hear sound

[@derekbervin3532]

You know I use to be successful bisnus man king of math...

[@marilynbables8071]

OBP--Oregon Black Pioneers is the proper name to exclude all traces of RACISM.👵🏾

[@feefee6889]

I had a culture shock when I was a teen only a decade ago when I went to Cali and there were black people everywhere!! I was shocked then wondered why Oregon was so white. I’m glad I grew up with the internet bc my parents refuse to accept that redlining was a thing here and I had an argument with them about it proving them wrong. It was sad actually.

[@BernardS4]

how about looking up James Douglas?

[@BernardS4]

Sorry! I wrote this too soon

[@bonitahobbs2374]

The dark- haired central father on " The Modern Family" had a biological Black - American Aunt from Oregon that he discovered on "Finding Your Roots" or another such tv show.

[@derekbervin3532]

You know Mr dragon fang has been hungry 😋

[@EdwardArmstrong-y3f]

Humanity !!! Why can’t treat each with decency

[@derekbervin3532]

Or should I have you a GORILLA AND SASQUATCH TO EAT YALL'SELF'S UP‽‽‽

[@DawnFrear]

In 1964 there was an Oregon flood it flooded all of wauregan I don't know where you found these bodies to put in Oregon cemeteries but they were not here before the Oregon flood everything was moved even bodies that passed on

[@DawnFrear]

There was a flood in 1964 everything was moved bodies homes trees everything so I don't know where you get that guy was buried there long time ago because everything was flooded here in Oregon and everything was moved so I don't know where you get that they were here they were not here blacks were not welcome in Oregon and they were not here in the past I don't know where you got your history but you need to check it out and for one thing all lives matter not just blacks but all lives

[@derekbervin3532]

By the restaurant shelter helping hands get your mind Wright...

[@derekbervin3532]

The deposits of cans and bottles magnetic field's I can just set tham hammer's down to SLAVERY 😁

[@derekbervin3532]

Time to grow up...

[@derekbervin3532]

You knowing that blue healer SASQUATCH dog and that pride and that separation and tham Bible verses you couldn't even if you tryed...

[@premapoojitanananda7947]

👌🙂

[@derekbervin3532]

You all knowing that Albany oregon town is on thi oregon trail Albany

[@derekbervin3532]

Yeah I have been that original since the Don of God dam time...

[@PuttinOnTheRiffs]

They raised bacon, he said…

[@derekbervin3532]

That's Albany town old city hall of Albany Oregon trail forəalZy it might look new in there time but it's old it's a brizel temple true...

[@derekbervin3532]

Recanizing that I have been on this Oregon trail of old CITY HALL OF ALBANY OREGON OF ALEXANDERA SO YALLOWNSELF'S VIEWING IT NOTICING IT CAN GO TAKE A HIKE:.

[@user-jd9fl2zx2u]

Great episode

[@derekbervin3532]

You knowing thatbi use to be a mime or mine...

[@derekbervin3532]

Knowimg that I have been a king of justice

[@derekbervin3532]

Amanda

[@ßearhammer]

What is “black”? That is such a generalized word that should be more specific. I’m white in the winter and brown in the summer.

[@verdeoaks6159]

Black are those that had their identity and culture stolen. Those who had their nation plundered by the Federal Government. Lands and NAMES stolen. Given a void name to hide who they truly are. Blame Hollywood, chase bank and the Federal Government. Also the pope and the American Red Cross.

[@Imjusthereleavemealone]

Why make historical monuments of homes that black people have lived in instead of giving it to the family or among thriving black communities again that yt folks back then destroyed. This is sick, you people love having trophies of the crimes you do. There’s so many of I’d homeless right now and can’t even qualify for many home loans etc. from these banks and credit unions and it’s very unfair. But yep let’s talk about your past and blame you for your future.

[@derekbervin3532]

That's Wright and freed slaves... and other's doing life sentence's...

[@derekbervin3532]

I will to

[@derekbervin3532]

Bruce lee Brandon Lee DIBBLE DRAGON FANG 🐉

[@derekbervin3532]

On my face from other's hands of selfish way's...

[@derekbervin3532]

I know that guy

[@derekbervin3532]

The sun king...

[@ronaldmccord4477]

Where did the Irish come from that took most if not all the land they now have??

[@PendeltonWhiskey]

I'm going way out on a limb here and taking a wild guess ............. Ireland?

[@derekbervin3532]

Not no fucking lies dragon fang Leviathan...

[@derekbervin3532]

Now do you have understanding of what I have been telling yall...

[@derekbervin3532]

Underneath ground

[@derekbervin3532]

Just like the national native American woodlin elf

[@gailobrien9380]

I’ve traveled all over the world, but I’ve never been to Oregon and I don’t plan to! It’s still a VERY racist state!!!

[@PendeltonWhiskey]

You've never been here but you've decided it's too racist for you, purely due to your own ignorance. If Oregon is too racist for you, you'd better steer clear of the vast majority of America

[@derekbervin3532]

Rose red door's of the yellow brick door 🚪

[@abdallahmuhammad-bey8810]

Reparations yesterday today and tomorrow