Thank you for checking out all of the amazing sources that are a part of Stepping into Portland Stories! Literature and historical research are all listed below.
Literature:
Durrow, Heidi W. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010.
Jackson, Mitchell S. The Residue Years : a Novel. Bloomsbury USA, 2014.
Jackson, Mitchell S. Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family. Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Shuster, Inc., 2019.
Watson, Renée. Piecing Me Together. Bloomsbury, 2017.
Watson, Renée. This Side of Home. Bloomsbury, 2015.
Other Resources:
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org
https://www.portlandoregon.gov/civic/article/516558
https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/black-history/Pages/context/chronology.aspx
https://www.portlandoregon.gov/phb/article/655460
https://oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine/skin-summer-2013/a-hidden-history/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo2RVOunsZ8
Gibson, Karen J. “Bleeding Albina: A History of Community Disinvestment, 1940‐2000.” Transforming Anthropology, vol. 15, no. 1, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007, pp. 3–25.
Lucas N. N. Burke, and Judson L. Jeffries. The Portland Black Panthers. University of Washington Press, 2016.
McLagan, Elizabeth, and Oregon Black History Project. A Peculiar Paradise : a History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940. 1st ed., Georgian Press, 1980.