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Program::
Air date:
Fri, 05/24/2013 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
The Vanport flood and racism in Portland: sixty five years later
Sixty five years ago, the Columbia River flooded into the largest public housing project in the U-S at the time, leaving 18,500 people homeless, a large number of whom were black. The event changed race relations in Portland forever.
On Friday May 24th, from 8 am to noon, KBOO presented a special program on the Vanport flood and racism in Portland, sixty five years later.
We featured historians and archived audio, as well as a discussion led by PSU professor and activist Walidah Imarisha asking ‘Why are there so few black people in Oregon’.
Listen to the full three hours by clicking the link above, or individual segments below:
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