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Vertical File Subjects Major Expo project moves forward

Jackson County Commissioners approved a contract to build a facility to serve as a multi-use emergency response center such as fires. …

Vertical File Subjects, Emergency Medical Services
Vertical File Subjects Hanley Farm preserves history, feeds Southern Oregon Families

The 37 acres of Hanley Farm are more than history of local agriculture.  They also provide food for area families that are dealing with…

Vertical File Subjects, Hanley Farm
Vertical File Subjects Games of Yesteryear entice new players at Hanley Farm

The Southern Oregon Historical Society hosted a Games Children Played event at Hanley Farm.  Youngsters played with wooden cup and ball toyed…

Vertical File Subjects, Hanley Farm.
Vertical File Subjects Games of Yesteryear entice new players at Hanley Farm

The Southern Oregon Historical Society hosted a Games Children Played event at Hanley Farm.  Youngsters played with wooden cup and ball toyed…

Vertical File Subjects, Hanley Farm.
Vertical File Subjects Man gets 13.5 years for Southern Oregon pot robberies

Shannon Christopher Harrop directed four armed marijuana robberies in 2019 and 2020.  Harrop typically was not at the scene of those…

Vertical File Subjects, Marijuana
Vertical File Subjects Medford Council: Remove all new tent campsites

The council passed a law that allows police to remove new homeless camps without 72 hour notice.  The ordinace is controversial because it…

Vertical File, Subjects, Homeless
Vertical File Subjects Etna Dungan

Valley Record 10-31-1901, Indicted for fraud

Women, crime
Vertical File Subjects Booker T. Washington comes to Ashland

Newspaper clipping from Ashland Tidings 20 Mar 1913 p. 1 article with photograph of Booker T. Washington visiting the Methodist Church. 

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects History Explains Dearth of Blacks

Oregon's Constitution banned black migration article from Mail Tribune 4 June 1995 p. 4A interview with Willard Cave, son of once-Medford Police…

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Historical Perspective has present lessons

Undated (but at least a decade after 1968) Ashland Tidings newspaper clipping mentions Martin Luther King Jr. day and the advancement of…

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Talent Items

Medford Mail Newspaper clipping 14 Sep 1894  no headline mentions a black preacher that came to town with a letter of introduction…

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Black Author target of racist vandalism

Medford Mail Tribune clipping 26 Mar 1982 - Black author, Myrtle Span had her duck killed and blood used to write racist comments on sliding glass…

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects A White Man's Country

undated newspaper clipping ...of 25,756 enumerated by the census, all but 173 were white...56 negroes, 5 Indians, 84 Chinese and 28 Japanese

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Statistics of Jackson County

reported in Democratic Times 14 Jan 1871 

White Males.................2,382

White Females.........    1,677

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Arrested and Discharged

Joe Mimms, a colored man arrested in Ashland w/ partern, B. L. Tompkins (white) holding religious meetings at Henley, Hornbrook and Pokegama.…

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Colored hobo, T. J. Moore

Ashland Tidings 27 Aug 1894 .... Moore was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Booker T. Washington Noted Colored Educator

Ashland Tidings clipping 24 mar 1913 p. 1 - Washington spoke at the M.E. Church to a packed house

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Black in Oregon

Ashland Daily Tidings article 17 May 2004 ... Race relations in Oregon since statehood and discussion of KKK

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects A Boy, A Bicycle, and a Turtle

Ahland LithiaGraph newspaper story about Emerson Vail's (a black boy) dream to become an Olympian

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Self-Defense Is Plea of Negro Held as Slayer

Medford Mail Tribune clipping 9 Jun 1926 p. 2 William Carter, local colored bootblack shot Antone Farris, a local Mexican in the leg

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects The Editor's Last Word

Ashland Tidings 5 Oct 1929... U of O have a problem on their hands. A very bright colored girl applied for admission to the University…

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Simon Pure Democracy

Marysville Daily Appeal , Marysville, CA 8 Jul 1862 p 2 clipping  Harry Bailey [actually Henry Bailey] married Julianna Johnson .... her hair…

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Asland Council Approves Black Lives Statue

Medford Mail Tribune clipping 23 Sep 2022 p. 31 Piece memorializes victims of racially motivated violence by Morgan Rothborne

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Civil Rights Tested

Oregon Sentinel 1 May 1869 mentions a dispute between a German and a black man who were trying to work for Major Glen of Jacksonville to clean up…

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Amalgamation

Oregon Sentinel 17 Jun 1863 p. 2 clipping about a "yarn" Copperhead papers were spreading. ..S. Oregon has a a number of staunch Secession…

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Died - Richard Conway

(colored man) 10 Oct 1863 Oregon Sentinel death notice

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Accused of a Serious Crime

Ashland Tidings 18 Dec 1899 p. 3 Col. 2 Albert Johnston, a negro, accused of rape

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Albert Johnson, the Spanish negro

Ashland Tidings clipping 21 Dec 1899 pleaded guilty of rape ...sentenced to 15 years

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Excellent Photographic Work

Ashland Tidings 14 Oct 1901 p. 3  Photographer Camps took pictures of the Depot Hotel. Mr. Pracht who runs the hotel installed all white…

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects A negro from Yreka, John Wesley Franklin

Ashland Tidings clipping 8 Aug 1884 p. 3 J.W. Franklin came to Ashland to carry brick for the new bank building and caused some trouble. ..…

Blacks in Southern Oregon