TY - JOUR
AU - Bristow, Nancy K.
AB - BOOK REVIEWS The Portland Black Panthers: Empowering of participants. Skillfully situating their work in the historical literature of the long civil Albina and Remaking a City. By Lucas N. rights movement, the Black Panther Party, N. Burke and Judson L. Jeffries. (Seattle: and the contests over space in the urban West, University of Washington Press, 2016. theauthors arguethat “theemergence andde- viþ 283 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, cline of the Portland branch of the Black index. $22.50.) Panther Party. . .marks an important turning point in the civil rights struggle for Albina’s Until 1951, interracial marriage was il- black residents and for the city’s approach to legal in the city of Portland, Oregon. Fair em- urban planning and development (10).” The ployment protections did not pass the state book succeeds brilliantly in detailing this argu- legislature until 1949, while public accommo- ment with depth and nuance and in providing dations and fair housing were not legally the evidence necessary to prove it. guaranteed until 1953 and 1957 respectively. As one World War Two veteran who In doing so the authors make clear the im- relocated there in 1960 recalled, “Living portance of the work’s particular lenses. in Portland at that 
TI - The Portland Black Panthers: Empowering Albina and Remaking a City. By Lucas N. N. Burke and Judson L. Jeffries
JF - Western Historical Quarterly
DO - 10.1093/whq/whw173
DA - 2017-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-portland-black-panthers-empowering-albina-and-remaking-a-city-by-2X3xUASY9a
SP - 67
EP - 68
VL - 48
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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