The persistence of black women at the Williams Avenue YWCA

Journal of Women's History

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 190-196

  Murdock, Rose M ^a  

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EID: 38549148605     PISSN: 10427961     EISSN: 15272036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2003.0075     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Kimberly S. Moreland, History of Portland's African American Community, 1805 to the Present (Portland: Bureau of Planning, 1993).
2. Elizabeth McLagan, A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940 (Portland: The Georgian Press, 1980), 121.
3. Rudy Pearson, "Breaking Down Barriers: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Portland During the 1940s," paper in Portland Community College Symposium, 1997, 1.
4. Pearson, "Breaking Down Barriers," 5.
5. Questionnaire on Interracial Practices in the YWCA, 15 April, 1943, Portland YWCA Archives.
6. Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, (New York: Vintage, 1985), 233.
7. Letter to members of Williams Avenue Board, 29 February 1944, Williams Avenue Pages, Oregon Historical Society.
8. Board of Directors Minutes, 11 April 1944, Portland YWCA Archives.
9. See Judith Weisenfeld, African American Women and Christian Activism: New York's Black YWCA, 1905-1945 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997), 154-45;
10. Reply to Questionnaire on Interracial Practices in the YWCA by Gertrude Eakin, 15 April 1943, Williams Avenue Pages, Oregon Historical Society.
11. See Weisenfeld, African American Women and Christian Activism, 191-202.
12. Letter to National from Gertrude Eakin, 13 December 1945, Williams Avenue Pages, Oregon Historical Society.
13. 25 February 1946, Williams Avenue Pages, Oregon Historical Society.
14. The Oregonian, 11 February 1949.