jaronheard · January 24, 2018 20:23
diff --git a/oregontimeline.json b/oregontimeline.json
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    "datatext": "",
    "src": "http://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/constitution/PublishingImages/before-blacks-burnett.jpg",
    "title": "1844",
    "desc":
      "Oregon territory bans slavery, and requires all black people to leave"
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "http://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/constitution/PublishingImages/before-blacks-slave.jpg",
    "title": "1849",
    "desc": "Oregon forbids free black people from entering Oregon"
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Oregon_Constitution_1857_cover.jpg",
    "title": "1857",
    "desc":
      "Oregon adopts state constitution, banning black people from entering, residing, or holding property. At this time, any white male settler could receive 650 acres of land and another 650 if he was married. This, of course, was land taken from native people who had been living here for centuries"
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Oregon.svg/2000px-Flag_of_Oregon.svg.png",
    "title": "1859",
    "desc":
      "Oregon enters the union as a state, and explicitly forbids black people from living in its borders"
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "1870",
    "desc":
      "The reconstruction amendments to the constitution (13th, 14th, 15th) are adopted, technically allowing black people into Oregon. Oregon is one of only 6 states to not ratify the 15th amendment, which gave black people the right to vote"
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "1890",
    "desc": "There are slightly more than 1,000 black people in Oregon"
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "1919",
    "desc":
      "Realty Board of Portland approves a Code of Ethics forbidding realtors and bankers from selling or giving loans to minorities for properties located in white neighborhoods."
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "1920",
    "desc": "There are about 2,000 black people in Oregon"
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "http://portland.theosophical.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/KKK-Ptld-Portland-Police-crop-2.jpg",
    "title": "1922",
    "desc":
      "Democrat Walter M. Pierce was elected to the governorship of the state in 1922 with the vocal support of the Klan, and photos in the local paper show the Portland chief of police, sheriff, district attorney, U.S. attorney, and mayor posing with Klansmen."
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "1944",
    "desc":
      "Black people move to Oregon en masse for the first time, mostly for jobs in the wartime shipyard. Most live in Vanport, a new city constructed as worker housing between Portland and Vancouver"
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "1946",
    "desc":
      "After the war, blacks were encouraged to leave Portland. The mayor of Portland says in newspaper that blacks people are not welcome"
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "1948",
    "desc":
      "Vanport is completely destroyed by a flooding Columbia River. After promises of safety from government officials, an inadequate dike protecting the city failed. Some residents lost everything in the flood and at least 15 residents died."
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "1948",
    "desc":
      "The only choice for Vanport residents to move if they wanted to stay in Portland was the Albina neighborhood"
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "1950",
    "desc":
      "Black residents move in, Whites residents flee Albina. Albina begins to be the center of black life in Portland."
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "1956",
    "desc":
      "Voters choose to demolish 476 homes, half of them owned by black people and almost all inhabited by black people, to erect Memorial Coliseum"
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "1958",
    "desc":
      "Interstate 5 is routed directly through the Albina neighborhood, destroying hundreds of homes"
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "1967",
    "desc":
      "76 acres of the heart of the black community in Albina is destroyed to make room for Emanuel Hospital, including black \"Main Street\" at the junction of Russell and Williams"
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "1970s and 1980s",
    "desc":
      "Redlining, the process of denying loans to people who lived in certain areas, flourished in Portland in the 1970s and 1980s. In Albina, homes were abandoned, and residents couldn�t get mortgages to buy them and fix them up. As more and more houses fell into decay, values plummeted, and those who could left the neighborhood."
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "1981",
    "desc":
      "Blatant racism from Portland city officials still rampant. Police officers run over possums and put the dead animals in front of black restaurants"
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "1988",
    "desc":
      "Albina is a neighborhood known for its housing abandonment, crack-cocaine activity, and gang wargare. Absentee landlordism is rampant. With real estate prices at rock bottom, white people moved in and started buying up homes and businesses, kicking off a process that would make Albina one of the more valuable neighborhoods in Portland."
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "1990",
    "desc":
      "An investigation by the Oregonian shows that all of the banks in Portland loan in the heart of Albina at 1/10th of the rate of the rest of the city. A predatory lending institution, Dominion Capital, also �sold� dilapidated homes to buyers in Albina, but kept ownership and scammed buyers."
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "1990s",
    "desc":
      "Following white investment in the area, the city starts to invest in the Albina neighborhood. Black residents had been shouting for decades for better city policy in Albina, but it wasn�t until white residents moved in that the city started to pay attention."
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "2000s",
    "desc":
      "Rapid gentrification in the former Albina neighborhood, rebranded as Alberta by real estate agents."
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "2011",
    "desc":
      "An audit found that landlords and leasing agents discriminated against black and Latino renters 64% of the time"
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "2014",
    "desc":
      "PSU: Oregon has been slow to dismantle overtly racist policies. As a result, African Americans in Multnomah County continue to live with the effects of racialized policies, practices, and decision-making"
  },
  {
    "datatext": "",
    "src": "",
    "title": "2017",
    "desc":
      "Portland is 72.2 percent white and only 6.3 percent African American. It has not had a conversation about its racist past, and still doesn't discuss it, even as gentrification and displacement continue. The block of black \"Main Street\" at Russell and Williams, razed 50 years ago, is still an empty field"
  }
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	"datatext": "",
	"src": "http://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/constitution/PublishingImages/before-blacks-burnett.jpg",
	"title": "1844",
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	"Oregon territory bans slavery, and requires all black people to leave"
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "http://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/constitution/PublishingImages/before-blacks-slave.jpg",
	"title": "1849",
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	"datatext": "",
	"src": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Oregon_Constitution_1857_cover.jpg",
	"title": "1857",
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	"Oregon adopts state constitution, banning black people from entering, residing, or holding property. At this time, any white male settler could receive 650 acres of land and another 650 if he was married. This, of course, was land taken from native people who had been living here for centuries"
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Oregon.svg/2000px-Flag_of_Oregon.svg.png",
	"title": "1859",
	"desc":
	"Oregon enters the union as a state, and explicitly forbids black people from living in its borders"
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "1870",
	"desc":
	"The reconstruction amendments to the constitution (13th, 14th, 15th) are adopted, technically allowing black people into Oregon. Oregon is one of only 6 states to not ratify the 15th amendment, which gave black people the right to vote"
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "1890",
	"desc": "There are slightly more than 1,000 black people in Oregon"
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "1919",
	"desc":
	"Realty Board of Portland approves a Code of Ethics forbidding realtors and bankers from selling or giving loans to minorities for properties located in white neighborhoods."
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "1920",
	"desc": "There are about 2,000 black people in Oregon"
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "http://portland.theosophical.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/KKK-Ptld-Portland-Police-crop-2.jpg",
	"title": "1922",
	"desc":
	"Democrat Walter M. Pierce was elected to the governorship of the state in 1922 with the vocal support of the Klan, and photos in the local paper show the Portland chief of police, sheriff, district attorney, U.S. attorney, and mayor posing with Klansmen."
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "1944",
	"desc":
	"Black people move to Oregon en masse for the first time, mostly for jobs in the wartime shipyard. Most live in Vanport, a new city constructed as worker housing between Portland and Vancouver"
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "1946",
	"desc":
	"After the war, blacks were encouraged to leave Portland. The mayor of Portland says in newspaper that blacks people are not welcome"
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "1948",
	"desc":
	"Vanport is completely destroyed by a flooding Columbia River. After promises of safety from government officials, an inadequate dike protecting the city failed. Some residents lost everything in the flood and at least 15 residents died."
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "1948",
	"desc":
	"The only choice for Vanport residents to move if they wanted to stay in Portland was the Albina neighborhood"
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "1950",
	"desc":
	"Black residents move in, Whites residents flee Albina. Albina begins to be the center of black life in Portland."
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "1956",
	"desc":
	"Voters choose to demolish 476 homes, half of them owned by black people and almost all inhabited by black people, to erect Memorial Coliseum"
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "1958",
	"desc":
	"Interstate 5 is routed directly through the Albina neighborhood, destroying hundreds of homes"
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "1967",
	"desc":
	"76 acres of the heart of the black community in Albina is destroyed to make room for Emanuel Hospital, including black \"Main Street\" at the junction of Russell and Williams"
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "1970s and 1980s",
	"desc":
	"Redlining, the process of denying loans to people who lived in certain areas, flourished in Portland in the 1970s and 1980s. In Albina, homes were abandoned, and residents couldn�t get mortgages to buy them and fix them up. As more and more houses fell into decay, values plummeted, and those who could left the neighborhood."
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "1981",
	"desc":
	"Blatant racism from Portland city officials still rampant. Police officers run over possums and put the dead animals in front of black restaurants"
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "1988",
	"desc":
	"Albina is a neighborhood known for its housing abandonment, crack-cocaine activity, and gang wargare. Absentee landlordism is rampant. With real estate prices at rock bottom, white people moved in and started buying up homes and businesses, kicking off a process that would make Albina one of the more valuable neighborhoods in Portland."
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "1990",
	"desc":
	"An investigation by the Oregonian shows that all of the banks in Portland loan in the heart of Albina at 1/10th of the rate of the rest of the city. A predatory lending institution, Dominion Capital, also �sold� dilapidated homes to buyers in Albina, but kept ownership and scammed buyers."
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "1990s",
	"desc":
	"Following white investment in the area, the city starts to invest in the Albina neighborhood. Black residents had been shouting for decades for better city policy in Albina, but it wasn�t until white residents moved in that the city started to pay attention."
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "2000s",
	"desc":
	"Rapid gentrification in the former Albina neighborhood, rebranded as Alberta by real estate agents."
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "2011",
	"desc":
	"An audit found that landlords and leasing agents discriminated against black and Latino renters 64% of the time"
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "2014",
	"desc":
	"PSU: Oregon has been slow to dismantle overtly racist policies. As a result, African Americans in Multnomah County continue to live with the effects of racialized policies, practices, and decision-making"
	},
	{
	"datatext": "",
	"src": "",
	"title": "2017",
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	"Portland is 72.2 percent white and only 6.3 percent African American. It has not had a conversation about its racist past, and still doesn't discuss it, even as gentrification and displacement continue. The block of black \"Main Street\" at Russell and Williams, razed 50 years ago, is still an empty field"
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