Racial conflict – Exclusion/Inclusion
Jacob Vanderpool (1820-188?)
Jacob Vanderpool was the only person known to have been legally expelled from Oregon on the basis of its anti-Black...
Ruffin Bridgeforth (1923–1997)
Ruffin Bridgeforth, president of the Genesis Group and priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), was...
The Black Laws of Oregon, 1844-1857
Beginning with the Exclusion Law of 1844 enacted by the provisional government of the region, Oregon passed a series of...
