The History of Segregation in Portland, Oregon

Unfortunately, racial segregation has a long history in Portland. The real estate industry often was a key player in enforcing that segregation. This April, The Oregon Historical Society is hosting a lecture shedding light on how segregation was perpetuated by real estate and lending laws and likewise, how it was often resisted.  The lecture will be held at OHS on April 8th at 2 pm. 
Link here: www.ohs.org/events/housing-segregation-and-resistance-in-portland.cfm
From the OHS website: 
"Inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the federal Fair Housing Act and the publication of Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, local researchers are uncovering and analyzing new sources related to the history of housing segregation — and resistance to that discrimination — in Portland, Oregon. Through a roundtable of short presentations, the audience will learn about the Black community’s creative tactics in resistance to housing discrimination, how the City of Portland used zoning to promote segregation or integration, ways Portland laws and policies created and enforced de jure racial segregation, and how private homeowners, developers, and realtors supported segregation through restrictive covenants in housing deeds."