Part One: Oregon is a Bastard: The History of a White Supremacist State
Behind the Bastards
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Oregon's Birthright Citizenship
In 1859, Oregon Territory finally becomes a state. It was the only state in the Union that was officially whites only. By 1890 there were only around a thousand black people in the entire state. The 1920s would have been a rough time to be a black person in Oregon.
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