Author: Michael Munk Publisher: ISBN: 9781932010374 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
A historical guidebook of social dissent, Michael Munk's The Portland Red Guide describes local radicals, their organizations, and their activities in relation to physical sites in the Rose City. With the aid of maps and historical photos, Munk's stories are those that history books often exclude. The historical listings expand readers' perspectives of the unique city and its radical past. The Portland Red Guide is a testament to Portland's rich history of working-class people and organizations that stood against repression and injustice. It honors those who insisted on pursuing a better justification for their lives rather than the quest for material wealth, and who dedicated themselves to offering alternative visions of how to organize society. The Portland Red Guide uses maps to give readers a walking tour of the city as well as to illustrate sites such as the house where Woody Guthrie wrote his Columbia River songs; the office of the Red Squad (the only memorial to John Reed); the home of early feminist Dr. Marie Equi; and the downtown site of Portland's first Afro-American League protest in 1898. This new edition includes up-to-date information about Portland's most contemporary radicals and suggests routes to help readers walk in the shadows of dissidents, radicals, and revolutionaries. These stories challenge mainstream culture and testify that many in Portland were, and still are, motivated to improve the condition of the world rather than their personal status in it.
Author: Mike Ryerson Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 0738596299 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 130
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In Portland's first decades, the northwest side remained dense forests. Native Americans camped and Chinese immigrants farmed around Guild's Lake. In the 1870s, Slabtown acquired its unusual name when a lumber mill opened on Northrup Street. The mill's discarded log edges were a cheap source of heating and cooking fuel. This slabwood was stacked in front of working-class homes of employees of a pottery, the docks, icehouses, slaughterhouses, and lumber mills. Development concentrated along streetcar lines. The early 20th century brought the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, manufacturing, shipbuilding, Montgomery Ward, and the Vaughn Street Ballpark. Today, Slabtown is a densely populated residential neighborhood, with many small shops and restaurants and an industrial area on its northern border. Tourists still arrive by streetcar to the charming Thurman, NW Twenty-first, and Twenty-third Avenues. Famous residents include author Ursula Le Guin, baseball greats Johnny Pesky and Mickey Lolich, NBA player Swede Halbrook, and Portland mayors Bud Clark and Vera Katz.
Author: Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Oregon Publisher: ISBN: Category : Portland (Or.) Languages : en Pages : 60
Author: John B. Robinson Publisher: Warren Machine Company, Incorporated ISBN: 9780972941099 Category : Fires Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Providing a rich experience for those touched by Portland, Maine, this dynamic resource includes stories and incendiary history of the city. An invaluable narrative history for both residents and vacationers alike, this resource explains the history in and around one of the best kept secrets on the East Coast. Portland was a commercial port of prominence in the United States until the great fire of 1866 reduced to ashes a city that rivaled New York City and Boston, as explained in this fast-paced documentation of the events that changed the history of a city.
Author: Michael Munk
Author: J. D. Chandler
Author: Harvey Whitefield Scott
Author: Joseph A. Conforti
Author: Joseph Gaston
Author: Mrs. N. B. Rice
Author: Mike Ryerson
Author: Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Oregon
Author: Federal Writers' Project (Or.)
Author: John B. Robinson