Stella Maris House collection, 1940-1973 ; bulk : 1960-1972.

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Stella Maris House collection, 1940-1973 ; bulk : 1960-1972.

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Ranging in date from 1940 to 1973, the Stella Maris House Collection consists of printed material, correspondence, and administrative, financial, and legal records created and collected by the Stella Maris House. Led by Mary C. Rowland, Irene Chavin, and Jim Guinan, the Stella Maris House was an Oregon-based offshoot of the Madonna House Apostolate, a Catholic social justice group. The collection demonstrates the local evolution of issues key to the history of the United States during the 1960s; over a third of the archive's content is dedicated to Oregon's migrant labor rights movement, and it also features records documenting the area's civil rights movement, housing discrimination, city planning, urban renewal projects, the building of the local interstate highway infrastructure, and the creation of social welfare programs initiated by the Economic Opportunity Act. Notable local and national social justice groups featured in the archive include the Albina Citizens' War on Poverty Committee, Albina Neighborhood Council, the Black Panther Party, the Community Action Program, the Housing Authority of Portland, the Metropolitan Interfaith commission on Race, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Urban League, the Neighborhood Service Project, the Valley Migrant League, and the United Farm Workers. Social justice and religious publications contained in the archive include New City, the Portland Observer, and the Black Panther.

10.98 cubic feet (31 document cases)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Black Panther Party

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The Black Panther Party was founded in October 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale as an organization dedicated to protecting and uplifting the Black population of Oakland. As the organization grew this focus spread to the rest of the United States and even abroad. The armed militancy and Marxist rhetoric employed by the Black Panthers, along with their philosophy of Black self-government caught the attention of both local law enforcement authorities and the FBI. As a result, many in the Pant...

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

Valley Migrant League (Wooburn, Or.)

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Metropolitan Interfaith Commission on Race (Portland, Or.)

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Neighborhood Service Project (Portland, Or.)

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United States. Office of Economic Opportunity

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National urban league

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The National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, later the National Urban League, resulted from the 1910 merger of three welfare organizations in New York, N.Y.: the Committee for Improving Industrial Conditions among Negroes in New York, the Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, and the National League for Protection of Colored Women. From the description of Records of the National Urban League, 1910-1986 (bulk 1930-1979). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71130941 ...

Community Action Program (U.S.)

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Rowland, Mary Canaga, 1873-1966

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Albina Citizen's War on Poverty Committee (Portland, Or.)

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Guinan, Jim.

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Chavin, Irene.

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Madonna House Apostolate

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Valley Migrant League (Portland, Or.)

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Housing Authority of Portland (Portland, Or.)

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Albina Neighborhood Council (Portland, Or.)

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Stella Maris House (Portland, Or.)

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The Stella Maris House, a lay Roman Catholic social justice group based in Portland, Oregon, was founded in 1951. Funded by charitable donations, the group maintained a small staff that included director Mary C. Rowland, Irene Chavin, and Jim Guinan. The group sought to enact change through close community involvement; consequently, it established headquarters inside neighborhoods it wished to serve. The group's Portland headquarters were located at 208 NE Weidler until the mid-1960...