Portland In The 1960s
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Author | : Polina Olsen |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781609494711 |
In 1968, Newsweek reported an imminent threat of twenty thousand hippies descending on Portland, Oregon. Although the numbers were exaggerated, Portland did boast a vibrant 1960s culture of disenchanted and disenfranchised individuals seeking social and political revolution. Barefoot and bell-bottomed, they hung out in Portland's bohemian underground and devised a better world. What began in coffee shop conversations found its voice in the Willamette Bridge newspaper, KBOO radio station and the Portland State University student strike, resulting in social, artistic and political change in the Rose City. Through these stories from the counterculture, author Polina Olsen brings to life the beat-snapping Caffe Espresso, the incense and black light posters of the Psychedelic Supermarket and the spontaneous concerts and communal soups in Lair Park.
Author | : Polina Olsen |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2012-08-28 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 161423664X |
In 1968, Newsweek reported an imminent threat of twenty thousand hippies descending on Portland, Oregon. Although the numbers were exaggerated, Portland did boast a vibrant 1960s culture of disenchanted and disenfranchised individuals seeking social and political revolution. Barefoot and bell-bottomed, they hung out in Portland's bohemian underground and devised a better world. What began in coffee shop conversations found its voice in the Willamette Bridge newspaper, KBOO radio station and the Portland State University student strike, resulting in social, artistic and political change in the Rose City. Through these stories from the counterculture, author Polina Olsen brings to life the beat-snapping Caffe Espresso, the incense and black light posters of the Psychedelic Supermarket and the spontaneous concerts and communal soups in Lair Park.
Author | : W. Edward Crockett |
Publisher | : Islandport Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2021-10-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781952143212 |
Ed Crockett, the son of an absent and alcoholic father, grew up in poverty in a crowded house on Portland's Munjoy Hill in the 1970s. He recounts his days growing up with the ever-present specter of a drunken father and then overcoming the odds to become a successful businessman and politician. The book is not just a tale of struggle and perseverance, but also a story of love, redemption, and ultimately forgiveness.
Author | : Laura O. Foster |
Publisher | : Timber Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013-03-26 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1604695382 |
Portland Hill Walks features twenty-four miniature adventures stocked with stunning views, hidden stairways, leafy byways, urban forests, and places to sit, eat, and soak in the local scene. The revised and updated edition offers five new walks in addition to the well-loved classics, with new contemporary and historical photos and easier-to-follow directions. Whether you feel like meandering through old streetcar neighborhoods or climbing a lava dome, there is a hill walk for every mood. New walks take you up to Willamette Stone State Park, across the St. Johns Bridge, down to the South Waterfront (with a ride on the aerial tram), along a stream in Gresham, and up Mounts Talbert and Scott. Portland is a walking city, and Portland Hill Walks will inspire you to enjoy it to its fullest!
Author | : Lucas N. N. Burke |
Publisher | : V Ethel Willis White Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-07-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780295742717 |
Portland, Oregon, though widely regarded as a liberal bastion, also has struggled historically with ethnic diversity; indeed, the 2010 census found it to be "America's whitest major city." In early recognition of such disparate realities, a group of African American activists in the 1960s formed a local branch of the Black Panther Party in the city's Albina District to rally their community and be heard by city leaders. And as Lucas Burke and Judson Jeffries reveal, the Portland branch was quite different from the more famous--and infamous--Oakland headquarters. Instead of parading through the streets wearing black berets and ammunition belts, Portland's Panthers were more concerned with opening a health clinic and starting free breakfast programs for neighborhood kids. Though the group had been squeezed out of local politics by the early 1980s, its legacy lives on through the various activist groups in Portland that are still fighting many of the same battles. Combining histories of the city and its African American community with interviews with former Portland Panthers and other key players, this long-overdue account adds complexity to our understanding of the protracted civil rights movement throughout the Pacific Northwest. A V Ethel Willis White Book
Author | : Robert D. Johnston |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400849527 |
America has a long tradition of middle-class radicalism, albeit one that intellectual orthodoxy has tended to obscure. The Radical Middle Class seeks to uncover the democratic, populist, and even anticapitalist legacy of the middle class. By examining in particular the independent small business sector or petite bourgeoisie, using Progressive Era Portland, Oregon, as a case study, Robert Johnston shows that class still matters in America. But it matters only if the politics and culture of the leading player in affairs of class, the middle class, is dramatically reconceived. This book is a powerful combination of intellectual, business, labor, medical, and, above all, political history. Its author also humanizes the middle class by describing the lives of four small business owners: Harry Lane, Will Daly, William U'Ren, and Lora Little. Lane was Portland's reform mayor before becoming one of only six senators to vote against U.S. entry into World War I. Daly was Oregon's most prominent labor leader and a onetime Socialist. U'Ren was the national architect of the direct democracy movement. Little was a leading antivaccinationist. The Radical Middle Class further explores the Portland Ku Klux Klan and concludes with a national overview of the American middle class from the Progressive Era to the present. With its engaging narrative, conceptual richness, and daring argumentation, it will be welcomed by all who understand that reexamining the middle class can yield not only better scholarship but firmer grounds for democratic hope.
Author | : Elinor Langer |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2004-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780312423636 |
Chronicles the events surrounding the trial of Kenneth Mieske, a white racists accused of killing an Ethiopian, and discusses how the incident uncovered the neo-Nazi movement in the United States.
Author | : Avel Louise Gordly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : African American politicians |
ISBN | : 9780870716140 |
Author | : Mike Bonner |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2018-03-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781986544948 |
Mike Bonner's poignant fictional memoir of his high school freshman year during the 1960s in Portland, Oregon, USA, is a meditation on the notion that misery plus time equals comedy.
Author | : Don Dupay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2015-02-21 |
Genre | : Police |
ISBN | : 9780692383773 |
Pimps, prostitutes, safe crackers, murderers, drug addicts, thieves and thugs-and of course, the Portland Police Bureau-Don DuPay introduces them all in this candid, entertaining and brutal look at the stark realities of police work. DuPay, a 17 year veteran of the force, has written an intimate memoir that will take the reader on an unforgettable journey, pulling back the curtain to reveal the true and shocking machinations that fueled police culture, during his time. It's a world of danger and contradictions, where officers are torn between their duties and the demands of survival. Police officers get dressed, strap on a gun and go to war. It's a different war every day but it's still a war. In this unforgettable story, the reader is never left to choose between the good guys or the bad guys. DuPay keeps it real as he wrestles with a vocation that nearly destroyed him. DuPay provides, startling revelations about the corruption, burn-out and heartache that he experienced during his time on the force-dynamics which remain a common pattern in long-term law enforcement careers.