<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">In recognition of the 2018
fiftieth anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, the <i>Oregon Historical
Quarterly</i> is working with Dr. Carmen Thompson and Dr. Karen Gibson to
organize a symposium focused on housing, civil rights, and race in Oregon. The
project is broadly defined, offering an opportunity to consider the ways legal
and economic structures have dictated who is entitled to what spaces in Oregon
throughout its history. Legal right to, or exclusion from, property-ownership
and access to particular spaces in Oregon has been tied to race since the 1843
Oregon Provisional Donation Land Law — through, for example, processes and
policies such as treaty negotiations, the Oregon State Constitution, the Dawes
(Allotment) Act, the Chinese Exclusion Act, the 1953 public accommodations law,
the 1957 fair-housing law, and the 1968 Fair Housing Act and its later
amendments. As we prepare to release our call for proposals in early February,
we would like to include references to relevant collections, particularly those
that may have been underutilized, and we are therefore asking you to share any
suggestions you may have about such materials. If you have collection
suggestions, please send information about them to Eliza E. Canty-Jones, OHQ
Editor, at <a href="mailto:eliza.canty-jones@ohs.org">eliza.canty-jones@ohs.org</a>.
Thank you!<span></span></span></p></div>