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RALEIGH DO W N T O W N 1 PETTYGROVE Tanner Springs Park BR O Y WA D A HOYT 9TH STA R OA K K COL LEG E § ¨ ¦ 405 2 ' Portland State University Ha r riso n LU MB IA 2N D t Pa rk l W ate rfro n ET CO ON 3 ' Ira Keller Fountain Cal ut h RK So MA MA D IS Mc ON MA IN rk B lo c ks E RS Pioneer Courthouse Square N Pa JEF F ' 5 Tom SA L MO CLA Y R 5TH 4 ' DE 4TH 19T H Lincoln HS 12T H AL Kathryn Bogle (1906-2003) SW 6th and Alder St. 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. 6 ON Gov . 20T H R IS 3RD BURNSIDE 16T H MO R EVERETT 6TH 10TH COUCH JELD-WEN Field ' 6 8TH DAVIS DAVIS Campbell Fountain North Park Blocks FLANDERS 15TH 16TH 19TH 20TH GLISAN 405 11T H The Culture Club was a philanthropic African American women’s group and a member of the Oregon Association of Colored § ¨ ¦ 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. 5 HOYT FLANDERS ' 1 ' 7 IRVING 16T H Culture Club 1220 SW Taylor St. Jamison Square Couch Park Walk of the Heroines SW 11th Ave. & Harrison St. Colored American School SW 4th and Columbia St. LOVEJOY JOHNSON 20TH Hattie Redmond 17TH 18TH KEARNEY 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. 4 IT O MARSHALL 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. 3 NORTHRUP 18T H 2 14TH OVERTON 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. The Fields 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. 7 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” NA QUIMBY 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 GARFIELD 13TH 12TH SISKIYOU MORRIS 7TH STANTON KNOTT KNOTT BRAZEE 8TH BRAZEE 26TH 35TH Grant Park TILLAMOOK TILLAMOOK HANCOCK ' 3 ' 2 SCHUYLER BROADWAY Memorial Coliseum 1 ' § ¨ ¦ I5 WEIDLER 6TH DI N XO CLACKAMAS WASCO Rose Quarter HALSEY 1 MULTNOMAH Lloyd Center 13TH THOMPSON TILLAMOOK 34TH THOMPSON 12TH THOMPSON 30TH BRAZEE 28TH THOMPSON 9TH32ND ' 8 31ST SACRAMENTO 27TH BRAZEE 10TH 28TH RUSSELL 33RD 11TH 29TH STANTON RUSSELL 4 11TH FARGO Matt Dishman Community Center ' 10TH 8TH Ir v i n g P a rk GRAHAM ' 5 Lillis-Albina Park IVY 13TH MONROE 6 ' 6TH MARTIN LUTHER KING JR VANCOUVER FARGO Dawson Park Legacy Emanuel Medical Center 9 GRAND MALLORY RODNEY GANTENBEIN COOK SHAVER BEECH AND 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 BY ' 7 3RD Williams Avenue YWCA 6 N Tillamook St. R KE IVY 2ND 4 FREMONT Boise-Eliot Community Garden 1ST 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. 1ST Mt. Olivet First Baptist Church 1734 NE 1st Ave. Pauline Bradford (1927- ) 1745 NE 1st Ave. WILLIAMS 2 3 DeNorval Unthank Park HAIGHT 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 COMMERCIAL 1 Bethel A.M.E. Church (former site) 1 N Center Court (Memorial Coliseum) CLEVELAND Two Plum Park 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. 5 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. 6 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 7 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. 8 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