CSPAN2 Remembering The Power Of Words July 1, 2017
Working, churchgoing people in a community with a keen sense of history and purpose. Being that portland was not a very welcoming place for africanamericans in the 1940s and 50s. Community and family and books really shaped her imagination, her sense of the past and her sense of her future and she has achieved many things on behalf of others, she has been an advocate always for education, and she is probably best known as the first africanamerican woman elected the Oregon State Senate . 1996. Avel gordly was my state representative, my state senator, in northeast portland. So i knew her name a...