Urban League of Portland president Dr. Darryl Tukufu (left) presents former League Executive Secretary E. Shelton Hill with the National Urban League's Whitney M. Young Jr. Medallion at the League's headquarters in Portland.
Edwin C. Berry, executive secretary of the Urban League of Portland, congratulates Ruth Fong on her selection as a Princess of the Portland Rose Festival. Fong was the first non-white Princess to be selected in the 38 years of Rose Festival history.
Letter describing poetry options for the textual component of the work Braille Rail, keithjellum@isp.cm, http://keithjellum.com/, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
Fabrication, installation and conservation statement of the work Space Time Tuition Differential, Bruce Conkle loves snowmen, coconuts, fairy tales, crystals, and meteorites. He is interested in creating work which uses art and humor to address contemporary attitudes toward nature and environmental concerns, including deforestation and climate change. Bruce's work often deals with escapism, artificial worlds and man’s place within nature and frequently examines what he calls the “misfit quotient” at the crossroads. His work has shown in Reykjavik, Rio De Janeiro, New York and Portland, and he is represented by Jack The Pelican Presents. Mr. Conkle has received multiple RACC project grants, is co-founder to the artist collective Blinglab and a 2006 Caldera Artist Residency alum. Marne Lucas is a photographer and installation artist using nature, pop-culture and sexuality through a filter of humor, as fundamental themes in her work. Her most recognized work is portraiture based, exploring intimacy with candor in her pin-up portraits of men and women, her artist portraits series and her ongoing self portrait series titled 'MLSP'. For the past ten years, Marne has worked as a visual and installation artist, in film & video production, performance, curatorial projects and in health and arts related non-profit organizations. In 2005 she co-curated the 'Danzine Retrospective' installation for non-profit organization Danzine, part of 'At The Mercy Of Others: The Politics of Care' organized by the 2005 Whitney Museum ISP Fellows. 2006 saw an elaborate puppet show produced by Blinglab at the PICA T.B.A festival. She is a RACC project grant recipient, a Caldera Artist Residency alum and co-founder of the artist collective Blinglab., http://www.marnelucas.com ; http://www.ecobaroque.com, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
The brash, strutting crows / impress themselves. / Their secret joke / aloft in the wind., keithjellum@isp.cm, http://keithjellum.com/, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
The brash, strutting crows / impress themselves. / Their secret joke / aloft in the wind., keithjellum@isp.cm, http://keithjellum.com/, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
Bruce Conkle loves snowmen, coconuts, fairy tales, crystals, and meteorites. He is interested in creating work which uses art and humor to address contemporary attitudes toward nature and environmental concerns, including deforestation and climate change. Bruce's work often deals with escapism, artificial worlds and man’s place within nature and frequently examines what he calls the “misfit quotient” at the crossroads. His work has shown in Reykjavik, Rio De Janeiro, New York and Portland, and he has been represented by Jack The Pelican Presents. Mr. Conkle has received multiple RACC project grants, is co-founder to the artist collective Blinglab and a 2006 Caldera Artist Residency alum. Marne Lucas is a photographer and installation artist using nature, pop-culture and sexuality through a filter of humor, as fundamental themes in her work. Her most recognized work is portraiture based, exploring intimacy with candor in her pin-up portraits of men and women, her artist portraits series and her ongoing self portrait series titled 'MLSP'. For the past ten years, Marne has worked as a visual and installation artist, in film & video production, performance, curatorial projects and in health and arts related non-profit organizations. In 2005 she co-curated the 'Danzine Retrospective' installation for non-profit organization Danzine, part of 'At The Mercy Of Others: The Politics of Care' organized by the 2005 Whitney Museum ISP Fellows. 2006 saw an elaborate puppet show produced by Blinglab at the PICA T.B.A festival. She is a RACC project grant recipient, a Caldera Artist Residency alum and co-founder of the artist collective Blinglab., http://www.marnelucas.com ; http://www.ecobaroque.com, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
The panel of speakers are shown at the Urban League Annual Meeting, held at the LLoyd Center Auditorium. Left to right: Joe Uris, past president of student body at Portland State; Robert Cochran, senior at University of Portland; Nancy Nelson, senior at Jefferson High School; Frank Fair, youth worker with Albina C-CAP; and Dr. C. Eric Lincoln, professor of sociology at Portland State. Panel topic was "Students' View Black Power-- Is it Good or Bad?"
W. Gibson, washerman, Opera House Laundry, was one of the first blacks to be employed in a Portland Laundry and to be admitted to Laundry Workers Union.
Scene from the Urban League Housing Conference, Multnomah Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Left to right at head table: John Holley; Kenneth Green; Russell Peyton. The housing survey team includes: Urban Leage President Mark Smith; Mark Talney and Mrs. John Catlin.
The conference was held at the Multnomah Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Shown at the head table are: Herman Plumm; John Holley; and Mark Smith. Seated below dias: James Brooks; Virginia Davis; Dorothy Vickers and Thomas Vickers.
Photo shows half of the head table. The minister at the head table is Father L. D. Stone, St. Philips Episcipal Church. The second person on the right of Father Stone is Dave Robinson, to the right of him is Dr. DeNorval Unthank and and Mrs. Dorothy Berry is on the extreme right. Ruth and John Holley are seen in the middle at the bottom of the photo. Willis Williams is the second person at the lower left table (facing the camera) and Mrs. Phil Reynolds is the second person from Willis Williams.
The Job Opportunity Clinic was sponsored by Delta Sigma Theta sorority and the Urban League of Portland at St. Philip's Church. At the table are E. Shelton Hill, ULP board member Sadie Grimmett and H. Fosselman.
Representatives of organizations receiving certificates for having 100% membership in the Urban League at the 15th annual meeting at the University of Portland. Left to right: ?; Carmen Walker; Mrs [Emma] Booker Lewis; Lena McMillan; MaryEllen Leftridge, ?, Tom Vickers; Ruth Holley; Mrs. Lawrence Maddox; Ruth Butts Spencer; Willa Mae Hart; Martha Jordan.
Connie Kim Yen Nguyen-Truong was born May 26th, 1976, in Portland, Oregon. As her parents were both born in Vietnam, she self-identifies as Vietnamese-American. She grew up in the Portland area and attended Benson High School. Upon graduation, she attended Linfield College Good Samaritan School of Nursing where she graduated in 2000 with her Bachelors of Science in Nursing. After practicing for five years, Nguyen-Truong attended the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Nursing where she received her PhD and completed a post-doctoral fellowship. Her dissertation discussed health practices, in particular cervical cancer screenings, among Vietnamese immigrant women in the United States. This involved work with IRCO AFC's Vietnamese Women's Health Project. After defending her dissertation in 2011, she pursued her postdoctoral fellowship through 2013. Not only did she worked with IRCO in the Vietnamese Women's Health Project (parts one, two, and three) and its community advisory board, but she also became a board member for AFC during her post-doc and a fellow of the Asian Pacific Islander Community Leadership Institute's cohort one. Nguyen-Truong continued her work in part three of the Vietnamese Women's Health Project with AFC, was a member of APICLI's Steering Committee, and was appointed co-chair of IRCO AFC's advisory board in 2015. Her duties included discussing funding, programs, and the future of AFC. Nguyen-Truong was also a professional nurse and nurse educator at OHSU in Portland. In the summer of 2015, she accepted a position at the Washington State University College of Nursing., The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (IRCO) was established in 1976 to serve immigrants and refugees in Portland, Oregon. IRCO's mission is to promote the integration of refugees, immigrants, and the community at large into a self-sufficient, healthy, and inclusive multiethnic society. Through its five primary locations – IRCO Main, Africa House/Skill Center, Asian Family Center, Senior Services Center, and the International Language Bank – the organization provides programs and services related to training and employment, health and aging, English language learning, naturalization and social adjustment, community development, early childhood, parenting and youth development, education and interpretation and translation.
Sivai Bennett was born in 1960 in American Samoa. She lived there until she moved to La Grande, Oregon, at age 18 to attend Eastern Oregon University and study political science. After two years, Bennett transferred to the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, where she continued her studies to become a lawyer even though she aspired to become a teacher. There she met her husband. She moved with him to La Grande and began her studies to become an elementary school teacher. In 1984, Bennett, her husband, and her daughter moved back to American Samoa where she taught high school. They then relocated to El Centro, California, in 1988 where they lived for 10 years. Eventually they moved to Portland, Oregon, where Bennett received her Masters of Arts in Teaching in 2003 at the University of Portland. Currently, she is a teacher at Harold Oliver Elementary in Portland. She also serves as a volunteer advisory board member of IRCO's Asian Family Center where her role is to advise the directors, help fundraise, and connect IRCO to her community. Bennett also serves as the secretary for the board of directors at the Samoa Pacific Development Corporation where she has previously held the positions of president, vice-president, and treasurer., The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (IRCO) was established in 1976 to serve immigrants and refugees in Portland, Oregon. IRCO's mission is to promote the integration of refugees, immigrants, and the community at large into a self-sufficient, healthy, and inclusive multiethnic society. Through its five primary locations – IRCO Main, Africa House/Skill Center, Asian Family Center, Senior Services Center, and the International Language Bank – the organization provides programs and services related to training and employment, health and aging, English language learning, naturalization and social adjustment, community development, early childhood, parenting and youth development, education and interpretation and translation.