Our own associate professor emerita Jean Moule, co-taught an honors course this fall with Natalia Fernández from Oregon Multicultural Archives.  Their focus was on researching Sundown Towns in Oregon.  They’ve now displayed some of their findings on the 5th floor of Valley Library and online at http://wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu/oregon-multicultural-archives/2013/11/30/sundown-towns-display-2013 and http://www.flickr.com/photos/osuarchives/sets/72157638268099734/.  Sundown towns excluded African Americans and/or racial minorities from living in them, creating purposefully ‘all-white’ towns.  Was Salem a Sundown Town?  What about Silverton?  Damascus?  Lake Oswego?  Check out their work.

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