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Mega Index
| Title | Body | Location | Source Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Marjorie O'Harra's Scrapbooks, vol 7 | Scott Bar and Hollis Anderson p1214; Mystery Mountain of Many Myths- Mt/ Shasta p1220; Lemurians p1224; From Arctic Slope to Pinehurst Oregon;Mr.… |
917.95 033 1979 V.7 | Library | |
| 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 | |
| Vernon Harper | MMT 12-12-2022, Obituary |
HA | Vertical File Biographies | |
| Thomas E. Jones | MMT 12-19-2022 Obituary |
Jones | Vertical File Biographies | |
| Mattie Alice Johnson | 1-9-1929 Death notice, daughter of Warren J, Howard |
Johnson | Vertical File Biographies | |
| Gerald O. Barnes | RVT 11-9-2023, Obituary |
BA | Vertical File Biographies | |
| Ronald Willard Bartlett | RVT 8-25-2023 Obituary |
BA | Vertical File Biographies | |
| Hamilton Watkins | MMT 11-29-1930 Oregon Trail memories, F. E. Furry, Clinton Carey, Fred Barneburg, Villa Conty Davis |
Watkins | Vertical File Biographies | |
| Mrs. Albert Perry | Valley Record 44-25-1895, Died on farm in Applegate near Kubli as did Mrs. Margaret Long in 1864 |
Perry | Vertical File Biographies | |
| Etna Dungan | Valley Record 10-31-1901, Indicted for fraud |
Women, crime | Vertical File Subjects | |
| America's Quilts and Coverlets | Carleton L. Safford and Robert Bishop, 1972 |
746.46 S23 1972 | Library | |
| Dating Fabrics: A Color Guide 1800-1960 | Eileen Jahnke Trestain, 1998, Quilter, Quilt |
746.46 T79 1998 | Library | |
| Uncoverings 1993: Volume 14 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group | Laurel Horton, 1994 |
746.46 W39 1915 | Library | |
| Quilts: Their Story and how to Makes Them | Marine D. Webster, 1915, Patchwork |
746.46 W39 1915 | Library | |
| A Concise History of Costume | James Laver, 1969, Greeks, Romans, Middles Ages, Renaissance, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth Century |
746.5 L39 1969 | Library |