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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Bold","serif"">I’ve been asked by the
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers group to let Oregon libraries know about this new book. A great opportunity to enrich your Oregon history and Diversity collections!</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Bold","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Bold","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Bold","serif"">Book information:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">Title: Perseverance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">Subtitle: A History of African Americans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">in Oregon’s Marion and Polk Counties<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">Author: Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">Published by the Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">www.oregonnorthwestblackpioneers.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">Binding: trade paper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">Page count: 280 pages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">Dimensions: 6” x 9”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">Extensively illustrated<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">ISBN 978-1-4507-4878-0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">$25.00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">Available through Ingram and Baker & Taylor.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">“Oregon history is the richer for
</span></i><b><span style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Bold","serif"">Perseverance.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:30.0pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">S</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">ince the beginning, even before the wagon trains,
African Americans have<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">played an essential part in building Oregon. In Marion and Polk counties, they<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">overcame the obstacles of wilderness, prejudice, and isolation, helping to create<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">a vibrant community. They have often been left out of the paintings and statues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">but
</span><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-BoldItalic","serif"">Perseverance
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">brings you many of their names and describes the ways they<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">have made history, taking their rightful place among<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif"">pioneers past and present in the Willamette Valley.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">Oregon history is the richer for
</span></i><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Bold","serif"">Perseverance.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">Thanks to the Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers for<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">documenting the history and character of Oregon’s<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">African Americans. We can now fully embrace the African<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">American community’s hardships and triumphs<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">and rejoice in their innumerable contributions to our<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">state. This book shines a spotlight on some important<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">Oregonians you’ve probably never heard of, and fi lls<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">large gaps in our state’s history.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">—Mary Oberst, First Lady of Oregon, 2003–11<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">This work is a signifcant contribution to the study<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">of the Black experience in Oregon history because it<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">stretches the traditional boundaries of consideration,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">touching as it does on material beyond the urban<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">Portland experience and having a female focus. It will<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">be of interest to both the academic specialist in Oregon<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">history and to a general reading audience.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">—Dr. Darrell Millner, Professor, Black Studies<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">Department, Portland State University<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">This carefully researched document brings the story of<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">Oregon’s African Americans to life.
</span></i><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Bold","serif"">Perseverance
</span></b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">is<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">a must read for those who love history and, even more,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">tales of the people who made Oregon.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">—Victor Atiyeh, Governor of Oregon, 1979–87<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">This book fi lls a big gap in the history of African<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">Americans in Oregon. I encourage history lovers to<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">read it and learn more about an important aspect of<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">Northwest history.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">—George L. Vogt, retired Executive Director,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">Oregon Historical Society<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Bold","serif"">Perseverance
</span></b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">offers an extremely insightful picture<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">of Oregon history, providing a glimpse into the true<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">diversity of Oregon society by giving voice to those<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">who have previously been ignored.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"PalatinoLinotype-Italic","serif"">—Dr. Peter MacMillan Booth,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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