Of all the remarkable stories told about the U.S. Army’s all-Black cavalries known as the Buffalo Soldiers, the most remarkable of all is surely that of the 25th Infantry Brigade Bicycle Corps. Read the complete article
You might not know it, but at the turn of the 20th Century, bicycle races were bigger than baseball. And much like today, the racers were largely White, affluent males. But in 1896, Marshall “Major” Taylor emerged on the track-racing circuit. He would become one of his era’s biggest stars... Read the complete article
For more than a decade, starting back in the early 1970s, North Portland families in search of a good deal on bikes went to Charles and Dolores Crews’ shop off Lombard near Roosevelt High School. Read the complete article
African-American slaves sweated in the summer heat and shivered in the winter’s cold while helping to build the U.S. Capitol. Congress took note of their service and sacrifice Wednesday by erecting commemorative plaques inside the Capitol in their honor. Read the complete article
The Oregon History Museum will be hosting the largest exhibit ever of the Pendleton Round-Up, a 100-year-old western exhibition that broke down barriers of race and sex ...
One organization is helping to keep the memory of Oregon’s first Black settlers alive... Read the complete article
While other pioneer organizations are built around preserving and honoring a community’s roots, the Seattle-based Northwest Black Pioneers is firmly focused on helping young people go to college.... Read the complete article
One of the wealthiest African Americans to settle Washington in the 1800s was George Washington Bush, an African American pioneer... Read the complete article
William Henry Tebeau was born in 1925 in Baker City. His grandparents came west in 1885 and settled in Huntington just inside Baker County and later on to Baker City... Read the complete article
William Livingstone was born into slavery in 1836 in Missouri. At age 12, he was sold to a man who lived in Hannibal, Mo. and is said to have grown up as a boyhood friend of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)... Read the complete article
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