The Skanner News - Oregon's First Black Community: Jackson County, 1850–1900 : vimarsana.com

The earliest sustained community of African Americans in Oregon was not in Salem or Portland, but in Jacksonville. At the time of statehood, Jackson County’s Black population was more than that of Multnomah and Marion counties combined. Zachary Stocks of Oregon Black Pioneers will share information about the rise and fall of this first Black community in Oregon, and discuss some of Southern Oregon’s nineteenth-century Black residents.

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