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Kathryn Bogle  (1906-2003)
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Kathryn Bogle broke down many racial
barriers for African Americans in Portland
and Oregon. Her 1937 article “An American Negro Speaks of Color,” made her the
first African American woman journalist to
have an article published in The Oregonian.
Bogle was one of the first African American woman in Oregon to work for the federal government and dedicated her life to
groups like the NAACP. She helped found
Friends of the Golden West to preserve the
building’s legacy.
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The Culture Club was a philanthropic African American women’s group and a member of the Oregon Association of Colored
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Women’s Clubs. The Culture Club organized social events at this location, and
raised funds to award college scholarships
for African American women. Thelma
Unthank (1906-1959) was one of the
leaders of the Club, and a dedicated proponent of civil rights for African Americans
in Portland and Oregon.
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SW 11th Ave. & Harrison St.
Colored American School
SW 4th and Columbia St.
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The Colored American School provided
educational opportunities for the young
African American students of Portland who
were barred from the Portland public school
system. The school opened in the fall of
1867 due to the efforts of the African American community, and enrolled twenty six students. Mrs. Abbie J. Young was the first
teacher at the school and was succeeded in
1869 by Miss Anna S. Northrup.
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The Walk of the Heroines is a public park
located on Portland State University campus
honoring women’s civic and cultural contributions. Developed through university and
community partnerships, Portland’s Walk
of the Heroines reflects the diverse accomplishments of women, and offers a powerful
legacy for future generations.
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Harriet “Hattie” Redmond
(1862-1952) 517 SW 17th Ave.
Harriet “Hattie” Redmond came
from a family of political activists and became one of Oregon’s early “Freedom Fighters” for the rights of Oregon
women. Redmond served
as secretary and later president of The Colored Women’s
Equal Suffrage Association.
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Golden West Hotel
707 NW Everett Ave.
The Golden West Hotel opened in 1906
under the operation of African American
businessman William D. Allen, providing
services to African American railroad and
hotel workers denied accommodations in white-only business. Local businesses housed within
the hotel and the surrounding
area also made the Golden
West Hotel an important social center for the local African American community.
Lillian Allen, wife of
Lillian Allen
William D. Allen, was a civically
and socially engaged member
of Portland’s early African American
community. Allen participated in various
women’s clubs, was active in the Women’s
Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters, and hosted card parties and luncheons at her personal residence offering her
community another social outlet.
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Union Station
800 NW 6th Ave.
The Portland chapter of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
protested at Union Station for better wages
and working conditions for Pullman porters
and redcaps. Active members of the auxiliary
Minniebell Johnson, Lillian Allen, and
Verdell Burdine Rutherford intervened
on behalf of African American men because
the men could be fired from their jobs for raising those issues with railroad management.
To Learn More:
Walk of the Heroines, www.woh.pdx.edu
Monumental Women Capstone, http://capstone.
unst.pdx.edu/courses/monumental-women
Oregon Historical Society, www.ohs.org
Oregon Black Pioneers,
www.oregonnorthwestblackpioneers.org/
Verdell Burdine and
Otto G. Rutherford Family Collection,
http://library.pdx.edu/specialcollections.html
Oregon Encyclopedia,
www.oregonencyclopedia.org
Acknowledgments:
Walk of the Heroines, Dr. Sally McWilliams
Portland State University Special Collections,
Dr. Cristine Paschild
Oregon Historical Society, Scott Daniels
PDX Civil Rights Project
Printing & layout help by Unknown Graphic Svcs.
Map Data from Metro’s Regional Land
Information System
All photographs courtesyof the Oregon Historical
Society and PSU Special Collections
COVER PHOTO: “Verdell Burdine and Otto G. Rutherford Family Collection, Gift of the Rutherford Family, Special Collections, Portland State University Library and Black Studies Department, Portland State University” & “Golden West Hotel Design by Azadeh Sajjadi, 2013”
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The Monumental Women Senior
Capstone at Portland State University
presents a heritage walking tour of
African American women activists and
community leaders from 1900-1940
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The Williams Avenue branch of the Young
Women’s Christian Association was established
in 1921 at the insistence of African American
women. The branch served the interests of African American women and their community in
Portland through race-relation work, confidence
building, and ethnic pride during a time of overt
discrimination. Several significant women and
organizations are associated with this site.
Margie Danley became the first executive director of the Williams Avenue YWCA in 1923. She
was an active civil rights advocate and went to the
1925 National NAACP conference as a delegate.
Jessica Grayson served as secretary of
the William Avenue YMCA in 1930, and was
president of Oregon Association of Colored
Women from 1935 to 1937.
Marie B. Smith  was a civil rights
leader, a Williams Avenue YWCA board
member, and became the first female president of the Portland branch of the NAACP.
Katherine Gray held the presidency of
both the Colored Women’s Council and the
Oregon Association of Colored Women’s Clubs
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6 N Tillamook St.
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Founded in the 1890s, Mt. Olivet Baptist
Church is one of Portland’s oldest African
American congregations. Mt. Olivet has been
a religious and social center for community
members and was a location for meetings
and rallies by civil rights groups and visiting
leaders. A. Philip Randolph, founder of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP)
and Marcus Garvey, leader of the Universal
Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), held
meetings here, as did the Portland’s Colored
Women’s Equal Suffrage Association.
Willie Mae Hart  (1926- ) has advocated equality through social uplift
throughout her life. Hart became
the first African American nurse
at OHSU, owned the first African American taxi-cab company with her husband and
others. She has been an active
member of Mt. Olivet Baptist
Church, president of the PortMarie B. Smith
land chapter of National Council of Negro Women, and Church
Women United.
Pauline Bradford came to Portland to work in the
shipyards in WWII, and became a pioneer in the
fight to desegregate Oregon’s workplaces. She
was one of the first African Americans to work
for the IRS, the U.S Department of Agriculture,
and later worked as a teacher at Peninsula Elementary School for many years. Bradford was
extremely active in the Northeast Coalition of
Neighborhoods, and the Eliot Neighborhood
Association, as well as the Oregon chapter of
the Association of Colored Women’s Clubs &
Youth Affiliates.
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Mt. Olivet First Baptist Church
1734 NE 1st Ave.
Pauline Bradford  (1927- )
1745 NE 1st Ave.
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The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal
(A.M.E.) Church was one of the first Black
churches in Portland, founded in 1889. From
1916-1958, the church thrived and grew at
1239 N. Larrabee Ave. until it was forced to
move when the neighborhood was demolished to erect the Memorial Coliseum. The
church has always been a pillar in the Portland African American community as a place
of worship, but also as a social center for its
members, a place for race relation discussions, civil rights activism, and cultural performances of visiting African American artists
and musicians. NORTH/NORTHEAST
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Bethel A.M.E. Church (former site)
1 N Center Court (Memorial Coliseum)
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while being an active member of Zion AME
Church. She joined with Beatrice Morrow
Cannady and the NAACP in protesting the
showing of the racist film “Birth of a Nation”
in Portland theaters in 1916.
and housing policies that restricted African
Americans to living in the Albina community.
The NAACP often met at the nearby Williams
Avenue YWCA, and moved its offices
there in 1956.
Colored Women’s Club
Begun in 1911 as the Lucy Thurman Club
in association with the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union, and re-organized into
the Colored Women’s Council in 1912. The
Council merged with nine other colored
women’s clubs to form the Oregon Association of Colored Women in 1917. Later, The Colored Women’s Club held annual scholarship
teas at the Williams Avenue YWCA in the 1950s.
The NAACP Federal Credit
Union began in the home of
Otto G. and Verdell Burdine
Rutherford, and operated out
of their home for many years.
As the NAACP and its credit
Verdell Burdine
Rutherford
union flourished and moved to
this location in 1964 where they remained for many decades.
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Women’s Auxiliary
of the Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters
77 NE Knott St. (Matt Dishman Center)
The Women’s Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of
the Sleeping Car Porters provided a support
system in the organization’s struggles to gain
union recognition. The Portland chapter protested at Union Station for better wages and
working conditions for Pullman porters and redcaps, and held annual dinners for retired members of the union at the Matt Dishman Community Center. Lillian Allen, Verdell Burdine
Rutherford, and Minniebell Johnson were
active participants in the auxiliary.
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NAACP Office & Federal
Credit Union
2752 N Williams Ave.
The Portland chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) was founded in 1914 and has worked
to ensure rights for Portland’s African American
community since. The chapter helped repeal
state exclusion laws in 1926 and 1927, established African American presence in labor
unions, and worked to repeal real estate codes
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Verdell Burdine
Rutherford  (1913-2001)
833 NE Shaver St.
A member of the Culture Club, the African
American Women’s Association, the Urban
League, and Bethel A.M.E. Church, Verdell
Burdine Rutherford was a prominent leader
in Oregon’s civil rights movement. She was
also an avid historian who created an extensive collection that chronicled the African
American experience in Oregon.
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Beatrice Morrow Cannady 
(1889-1974) 2516 NE 26th Ave.
Beatrice Morrow Cannady, “the city’s ambassador of interracial good will” was a leading
champion of Portland progress and racial
equality. Cannady and her husband E.D.
Cannady, owned and published
Portland’s African American
newspaper The Advocate.
She was one of the founders
the Portland branch of the
NAACP, and the first African American woman to run
Beatrice Morrow
Cannady
for Oregon elective office.
 Denotes person is honored on the Walk of the Heroines