Oregon’s Black Pioneers: Full Documentary | Oregon Experience

Oregon’s Black Pioneers: Full Documentary | Oregon Experience | OPB

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4 жыл бұрын

Long before Oregon became a state, Black people were in the Far West. Some were brought to the region as slaves, but many others arrived as freemen looking for a new life. They opened boarding houses and stores, worked farms and mined for gold. But as more white settlers arrived over the Oregon Trail, the newcomers passed discriminatory laws to keep African Americans out. “Oregon Experience” examines the largely unknown history of Oregon’s Black pioneers.
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@walterlinney9321 8 күн бұрын

This is the 1st time I heard about Black people in the north west United States. Thanks for the Black history lesson.

@daveodell700 4 жыл бұрын

Black history is American history...let’s start teaching ALL of it to EVERYONE.

@ratehhuti1861 3 жыл бұрын

No disrespect to anyone, but the first Americans were Blacks AKA African Americans which was here first the Hidden History Of the Americas. They was here before the wave of Asians [Indians] , Caucasians, Arabians. They was first all over the world at one time Black or Brown People the biggest kept secret. But our Creator will balance out everything to reveal the truth and filter out evil.

@alexw853 Жыл бұрын

Freedmen's history. Don't start trying to squeeze in all cultures of immigrant Blacks. The native Blacks are Freedmen. The Blacks connected to RECONSTRUCTION.

@alexw853 Жыл бұрын

@@ratehhuti1861 Aboriginal people you mean and our federal status is Freedmen. I also learned that not all Black Americans were enslaved.b

@verdeoaks6159 7 ай бұрын

@@alexw853facts.

@verdeoaks6159 7 ай бұрын

@@alexw853our nation has been overrun by Nazis with a serious infestation of roaches and rats.

@michaelknapp8961 4 жыл бұрын

Back in the 1980s my father was given a 19th century picture book of our family ancestors from the 1800s. I was 18 years old and I was flipping through the black and white images. I came across a married couple. The husband was white and his wife was clearly black! I showed my father the picture and we looked them up in our genealogy. Our family are direct descendants of these two people. The pic was taken in 1871 in eastern Oregon. They had children and their children had children and it led to us. I just wanted you to know how proud I am of this. I’m much more proud of this than my Irish heritage. Somewhere deep deep deep in my DNA is this black woman’s genetic background. I don’t know anything more about them and don’t know where they ended up. It just kinda showed how connected us humans truly are in this big world of ours.

@StranglyForbidden 2 жыл бұрын

I live in eastern Oregon

@PatriciaHenry Жыл бұрын

This kind of mess happened in every place everywhere. Unfair laws tailored to suppress another fellow man. Sad that humans consistently choose to do evil things to one another.

@Sari-S1S 4 жыл бұрын

This is great to learn all this. I have lived in Oregon since I was 5 and it's a shame that this history wasn't covered when we studied the Pioneers. Passing this history on!

@mrmighty9862 2 жыл бұрын

You’re kidding right?

@MissCharliechop 4 жыл бұрын

A part of history not popularly known, but a story that needs to be told and shared. Thank you for sharing!

@tdestroyer4780 4 жыл бұрын

Shove it down everyone's throat too. As if we're not being preached to enough these days

@DHDivineONE 4 жыл бұрын

@@tdestroyer4780 We get Columbus and a lot more bs history shoved down are throats all year round are whole life

@PatriciaHenry Жыл бұрын

@@DHDivineONE our not are. 👍🏽

@paustinheaton 4 жыл бұрын

Fascinating history. Thank you for posting.

@tylerjayde5886 4 жыл бұрын

It’s crazy that I graduated from a high school in Oregon and I only heard about the exclusion laws and such recently

@pseudonymphmusic7721 4 жыл бұрын

Yup they too ashamed to own up until now

@crujones4046 3 жыл бұрын

@@pseudonymphmusic7721 at that time even Africans were selling other Africans. It was world wide not just in Oregon. I am only ashamed of my own actions, and not others past aggressions. Have a good day.

@dylanjennings1687 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing! History major here that has lived in Oregon his whole life and never knew any of this! Plus, so cool to see my name on an old hotel! Both sides of my family went across the Oregon trail and can’t help but wonder if I’m somehow related to that Jennings.

@tracyclark7560 4 күн бұрын

Incredible. Moving, inspirational, well documented. PBS does it better than any other media.

@NellieKAdaba 3 күн бұрын

True

@aliceknows3375 Жыл бұрын

I was traveling through Oregon and saw no African American people so I immediately googled demographics. Then I looked up the history of the state. I knew the state had racist origins, but still was not aware how prevalent. Thank you for this documentation.

@AntiQris 10 ай бұрын

Buffalo soldiers massacred the natives of all the Oregon territory natives that’s 4 states, and so you gotta understand that they were scared of Africans after that.

@elaztec.aztecca 9 ай бұрын

Leticia Carson was a wonderful and strong woman and I’m glad she met that attorney.

@reginaromsey 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful presentation. History that I would really prefer not to be true, but the proof is there for all to see. If at all possible I would love to have one person or family followed more in depth, and possibly to the present day. It seems too that with the people deserving shame, there are many who stood up for right.

@ORWWmedia 4 жыл бұрын

You can learn more about Letitia Carson and her descendants, including prominent members of the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla: nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Articles/Magazines/OSB_Bulletin/20161001_Letitia_Carson/index.html

@elainedoornbos3566 4 жыл бұрын

I wish someone would make movies about these brave people...even, the Mims Home in Eugene, OR where Duke Ellington, Ray Charles & Ella Fitzgerald HAD to stay when, they came to sing, perform & play...SO, NOTEWORTHY BUT, HIDDEN!!

@ORWWmedia 4 жыл бұрын

I have been wanting to do a screenplay on Letitia Carson for more than 20 years -- or at least complete her biography! nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Articles/Magazines/OSB_Bulletin/20161001_Letitia_Carson/index.html

@danielt.3152 Жыл бұрын

Watching this was depressing to me, the sad state of government in places like this was horrendous. I am Jewish and I know all to well that the fate of other minorities is the same as mine.

@chocolatetye797 4 жыл бұрын

Portland has been my home for over 40 years, and I didn't even know this... My neighbor a white woman, she said, "oh, I know all about the racist history in Oregon."

@stella-vu8vh 3 жыл бұрын

You are really pretty! I'm sorry your neighbor is a virtue signaling performative political activist and i bet she's openly racist as hell and doesn't understand she's overt

@chocolatetye797 3 жыл бұрын

@@stella-vu8vh thank you... She's a closet racist.... You know, the ones who go over the top to please you...

@joylynne8 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this video. It is very informative.

@Drjulie804 4 күн бұрын

I am Black and have never related Oregon and Black people ever. In fact, i have often said with certainty that Black people don't live in Oregon. Thank you for enlightening me.

@amongusbaddje1446 4 жыл бұрын

learned this in school it’s interesting to watch this documentary living in oregon and all

@christinelachance8012 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent program, thank you

@stephanieclark6154 6 күн бұрын

Outstanding presentation 👏🏿

@valdoelchino3961 4 жыл бұрын

Dam well that’s cool to know about the land your on . I’m not black .but I feel smarter watching this shit than tik tok or whatever it is out there

@sahpem4425 4 жыл бұрын

I appreciate this. I’ve always loved Oregon pioneer history. I’ve read a lot about it over the years but there isn’t much on African American pioneers. Later, I discovered I mostly have relatively modern Irish ancestors and probably no pioneer history. How’s that for irony?

@DawnFrear Жыл бұрын

In Roseburg Oregon in the fifties it had a sign it blacks weren't allowed after sunset or they wouldn't be protected after sunset I know this cuz it's my home state my hometown I know my history on my hometown in my home state so

@sapperj569 8 ай бұрын

Heard bout them safety measures as a kid & dismissed it as looking out. Now I see as threatened people that created hostility that never needed be started. But that didn’t stop them Chinese people getting slaughtered for gold dust not far from Lakeview. K-Falls.

@margaretrichardson2777 4 ай бұрын

C 😊

@amayaramirez3075 4 жыл бұрын

I have heard of this in school a bit and i live in Oregon. But i don't think they talk about it that much in schools and i think they should in schools. Im in high school now it's very interesting to hear about this history

@dalegrays8053 12 күн бұрын

Never heard this in Oregon! This Genealogy and Generation has Alot to Answer with ALMIGHTY GOD and Jesus Christ of mistreating his human Races

@shortycruz4232 4 жыл бұрын

Inspirational!

@Xoxoquan 2 жыл бұрын

🥰 i really enjoyed this!

@djt.y9314 2 жыл бұрын

🥳 me too

@carolutley6523 Жыл бұрын

We can make sure that it doesn't happen again, by voting 😉

@kayeemerson6892 Жыл бұрын

I'm from Alabama and I thought it was racist but this tops the cake

@ram29jackson 4 жыл бұрын

Some of the blacks could have been local Indians to begin with. It's always been their land

@ratehhuti1861 3 жыл бұрын

That is true because the original people of the Americas were the copper colored people ranging from different skin tones. They was here before the American Indians which they was the Native Americans to different terms. American Indians was a mixture of original people Olmecs [Black People] and Asians who cross the Beiring Strait and later the Caucasians who came later to the Americas. Then you started to have more tribes form there to now.

@verdeoaks6159 7 ай бұрын

Indians and cowboys were created by the Jews who created Hollywood. Watch a doc called “Hollywoodism”. This nation was stolen and the heirs are in wonderland. No Indians or turtle island. The were law men. Men that created the law and the only ones with the ability to give power on this most Holy land.

@vmaultsby 21 күн бұрын

Yes

@i-35vagabond56 Күн бұрын

I have never been to Oregon or the US Northwest, but I found this to be an extremely interesting, captivating history program. History class would have been so much more enjoyable if we had been shown videos like this when I was in school. History class, more often than not, could be an excruciatingly dry hour to sit through and basicly consisted of taking notes of important names and dates to memorize in order to receive a passing grade.

@AzucaNegra16 2 күн бұрын

Thank you much. This is very informative.

@aprilrobinson7713 Жыл бұрын

So interesting. Thank you

@valritz3100 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@Kalik8000 2 күн бұрын

"That history has already happened, you can't change it. The best thing that you can do is really tell the truth about it and acknowledge it and move on, and say: we know this was wrong and we're going to work to see that this never happens again". Ase' O

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Noticing the parks and that concrete little piller on this album

@alicerobertson5660 20 күн бұрын

Very important information first time hearing about oregon history.

@MrTwenty20video Жыл бұрын

✔ Thank you.

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

And you know I have been calling it how I have been here for the longest time now...

@Spiritree41 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this documentary. According to my dna we were in Oregon 6000 bc

@yomammascan 2 жыл бұрын

No!

@marcusvachon845 2 күн бұрын

Ty Burrell, the actor that portrayed Phil Dunphy, is a descendant of a Black lady that lived in Oregon during the late 19th century. He found out by being on Finding Your Roots with Dr. Gates.

@annielast2577 Күн бұрын

Interesting history facts. My great-grandmother’s father on my Mother’s side was a white man family accepted him in family linage. My grandfather on my mother’s side was from Africa, who was brought on the last slave ship from Africa with no other family members. He was a young boy and didn’t know how old he was. So on his tombstone is his name and death date which is August 1941.❤

@joseph_the_human Күн бұрын

The term "buying your freedom" stands out to me. 11:31

@bonitahobbs2374 6 күн бұрын

The dark- haired central father on " The Modern Family" had a biological Black - American Aunt from Oregon that he discovered on "Finding Your Roots" or another such tv show.

@KseaPetersen 3 күн бұрын

My maternal family hired black men to do forestry work on their logging property in the woods near Astoria and Seasode Oregon .

@MJ-hg1mk 3 жыл бұрын

It is what it is, folks... Believe it. I been here long enough. Bout to be out.

@cmebans35 2 сағат бұрын

Great information Black History is important everyday July 1 2024

@RoseClimbPaintC 4 жыл бұрын

"Displacing" that's one way to put it...

@carmenhomer1965 Жыл бұрын

Enjoyed learning about Oregon

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

You know I use to be successful bisnus man king of math...

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

And that's in a different time bases or zones

@jabbarinnewyork7778 5 күн бұрын

SOME OF THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT BLACK, THEY ARE GOLD. THEY ARE GOLD PIONEERS

@PuttinOnTheRiffs 2 жыл бұрын

They raised bacon, he said…

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

By the restaurant shelter helping hands get your mind Wright...

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

You know Mr dragon fang has been hungry 😋

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Time to grow up...

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

You knowing that blue healer SASQUATCH dog and that pride and that separation and tham Bible verses you couldn't even if you tryed...

@premapoojitanananda7947 4 жыл бұрын

👌🙂

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Or should I have you a GORILLA AND SASQUATCH TO EAT YALL'SELF'S UP‽‽‽

@AntiQris 10 ай бұрын

What is “black”? That is such a generalized word that should be more specific. I’m white in the winter and brown in the summer.

@verdeoaks6159 7 ай бұрын

Black are those that had their identity and culture stolen. Those who had their nation plundered by the Federal Government. Lands and NAMES stolen. Given a void name to hide who they truly are. Blame Hollywood, chase bank and the Federal Government. Also the pope and the American Red Cross.

@BernardS4 9 ай бұрын

how about looking up James Douglas?

@BernardS4 9 ай бұрын

Sorry! I wrote this too soon

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

That's Albany town old city hall of Albany Oregon trail forəalZy it might look new in there time but it's old it's a brizel temple true...

@DawnFrear Жыл бұрын

In 1964 there was an Oregon flood it flooded all of wauregan I don't know where you found these bodies to put in Oregon cemeteries but they were not here before the Oregon flood everything was moved even bodies that passed on

@DawnFrear Жыл бұрын

There was a flood in 1964 everything was moved bodies homes trees everything so I don't know where you get that guy was buried there long time ago because everything was flooded here in Oregon and everything was moved so I don't know where you get that they were here they were not here blacks were not welcome in Oregon and they were not here in the past I don't know where you got your history but you need to check it out and for one thing all lives matter not just blacks but all lives

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

You all knowing that Albany oregon town is on thi oregon trail Albany

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I have been that original since the Don of God dam time...

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Recanizing that I have been on this Oregon trail of old CITY HALL OF ALBANY OREGON OF ALEXANDERA SO YALLOWNSELF'S VIEWING IT NOTICING IT CAN GO TAKE A HIKE:.

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

The deposits of cans and bottles magnetic field's I can just set tham hammer's down to SLAVERY 😁

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

You knowing thatbi use to be a mime or mine...

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Knowimg that I have been a king of justice

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

On my face from other's hands of selfish way's...

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

I will to

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Amanda

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Now do you have understanding of what I have been telling yall...

@ronaldmccord4477 4 күн бұрын

Where did the Irish come from that took most if not all the land they now have??

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

That's Wright and freed slaves... and other's doing life sentence's...

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Not no fucking lies dragon fang Leviathan...

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

I know that guy

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

The sun king...

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Of animals and black historical history & Wright historical history's

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Just like the national native American woodlin elf

@adpowell1414 4 күн бұрын

James Douglas was white, drop of "black blood" or not. The truth is that, even in the USA, whiteness depended on a mixture of looks and performance instead of "purity" of European lineage.

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

I'm's thi ANCHONT LEGENDARY DRAGON FLAG GARDEN GARD GATE KEEPER OF ROYAL'S

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Bruce lee Brandon Lee DIBBLE DRAGON FANG 🐉

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Known in high places Highlanders magnetic field's fluent English language God's dam'z...

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Underneath ground

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Start upz man...

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Rose red door's of the yellow brick door 🚪

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

You know that oh don't give a God's dam's less about me she allways leaving me over something stupid...

@vladimirkurelchuk8514 4 жыл бұрын

У кей Браун морги перевернулись до сих пор можна было ходить без намордника а щас нельзя да

@cacheofchetoonz 18 күн бұрын

Black or copper colored people been in oregon! The people of ameru!

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

You know tham scars you bet...

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Black history woodlin elf true...

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Told yallownZySelf'so...

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

God's dam'z do to your selfish ways... And I dont have a hat on...

@lilys4960 2 ай бұрын

😀

@johnolive3377 2 жыл бұрын

Change your outlandish behavior and you will be accepted. Easy fix but you won’t change so on and on it goes.

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

Not useing a hat

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

🦃🐉

@derekbervin3532 2 жыл бұрын

& yall know I'm's not playing aroundZyS about that fucked off fluent English language

@twylamiller6206 8 ай бұрын

Trumps great. Grandfathers was mine and for him being kkk funny, he has black in the back history too