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

Long before Oregon became a state, Black people were in the Far West. Some were brought to the region as slaves, but many others arrived as freemen looking for a new life. They opened boarding houses and stores, worked farms and mined for gold. But as more white settlers arrived over the Oregon Trail, the newcomers passed discriminatory laws to keep African Americans out. “Oregon Experience” examines the largely unknown history of Oregon’s Black pioneers.
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[@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.

[@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

[@walterlinney9321]

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

[@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. 👍🏽

[@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?

[@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.

[@paustinheaton]

Fascinating history. Thank you for posting.

[@elaztec.aztecca]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@amongusbaddje1446]

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

[@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.

[@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...

[@joylynne8]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@AntiQris]

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.

[@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 😊

[@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

[@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

[@christinelachance8012]

Excellent program, thank you

[@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

[@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?

[@shortycruz4232]

Inspirational!

[@kayeemerson6892]

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

[@Xoxoquan]

🥰 i really enjoyed this!

[@djt.y9314]

🥳 me too

[@stephanieclark6154]

Outstanding presentation 👏🏿

[@aprilrobinson7713]

So interesting. Thank you

[@carolutley6523]

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

[@derekbervin3532]

Noticing the parks and that concrete little piller on this album

[@alicerobertson5660]

Very important information first time hearing about oregon history.

[@valritz3100]

Thank you

[@derekbervin3532]

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

[@Spiritree41]

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

[@yomammascan]

No!

[@MrTwenty20video]

✔ Thank you.

[@RoseClimbPaintC]

"Displacing" that's one way to put it...

[@MJ-hg1mk]

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

[@derekbervin3532]

And that's in a different time bases or zones

[@derekbervin3532]

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

[@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.

[@PuttinOnTheRiffs]

They raised bacon, he said…

[@premapoojitanananda7947]

👌🙂

[@derekbervin3532]

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

[@derekbervin3532]

Time to grow up...

[@jabbarinnewyork7778]

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

[@BernardS4]

how about looking up James Douglas?

[@BernardS4]

Sorry! I wrote this too soon

[@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...

[@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]

You know Mr dragon fang has been hungry 😋

[@derekbervin3532]

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

[@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]

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

[@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:.

[@derekbervin3532]

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

[@derekbervin3532]

Amanda

[@derekbervin3532]

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

[@derekbervin3532]

Knowimg that I have been a king of justice

[@AntiQris]

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.

[@derekbervin3532]

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

[@carmenhomer1965]

Enjoyed learning about Oregon

[@derekbervin3532]

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

[@derekbervin3532]

The sun king...

[@derekbervin3532]

Underneath ground

[@derekbervin3532]

I will to

[@derekbervin3532]

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

[@derekbervin3532]

Not no fucking lies dragon fang Leviathan...

[@derekbervin3532]

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

[@derekbervin3532]

Of animals and black historical history & Wright historical history's

[@derekbervin3532]

Start upz man...

[@derekbervin3532]

I know that guy

[@derekbervin3532]

I'm's thi ANCHONT LEGENDARY DRAGON FLAG GARDEN GARD GATE KEEPER OF ROYAL'S

[@derekbervin3532]

Just like the national native American woodlin elf

[@derekbervin3532]

Rose red door's of the yellow brick door 🚪

[@derekbervin3532]

Known in high places Highlanders magnetic field's fluent English language God's dam'z...

[@derekbervin3532]

You know tham scars you bet...

[@derekbervin3532]

Told yallownZySelf'so...

[@derekbervin3532]

Bruce lee Brandon Lee DIBBLE DRAGON FANG 🐉

[@derekbervin3532]

Black history woodlin elf true...

[@derekbervin3532]

You know that oh don't give a God's dam's less about me she allways leaving me over something stupid...

[@Administrator7]

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

[@cacheofchetoonz]

Black or copper colored people been in oregon! The people of ameru!

[@vladimirkurelchuk8514]

У кей Браун морги перевернулись до сих пор можна было ходить без намордника а щас нельзя да

[@lilys4960]

😀

[@johnolive3377]

Change your outlandish behavior and you will be accepted. Easy fix but you won’t change so on and on it goes.

[@derekbervin3532]

God's dam'z do to your selfish ways... And I dont have a hat on...

[@derekbervin3532]

🦃🐉

[@derekbervin3532]

& yall know I'm's not playing aroundZyS about that fucked off fluent English language

[@derekbervin3532]

Not useing a hat

[@jinglebells3323]

I can't shake the feeling that this is oppritunism like someones making additions to history because of politics right now don't know why this shit seems pretty cool

[@twylamiller6206]

Trumps great. Grandfathers was mine and for him being kkk funny, he has black in the back history too

[@derekbervin3532]

You all knowing that I don't givzin it a God's dam'z less

[@jmm866]

So sad the Democrats did this to our black brothers and sisters.

[@tarekyoungapelian4542]

Yes we all know, back when Republicans were called Democrats.

[@jinglebells3323]

rrrrriiiiight I'd think this was cool if it weren't for the bullshit political context I now have to view this shot with

[@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!

[@derekbervin3532]

I seem to notice a rainbow 🌈

[@Town22]

Interesting, but oregon is now terrible on race.

[@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]

🐉💩

[@TYRANNOSAURUS-1]

Too bad we can Not believe Anything coming from the “Oregon PROPAGANDA Bureau “.... OPB!!!

[@derekbervin3532]

Start upz man...