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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I am forwarding this message from the Oregon Heritage Commission. It offers some advice and resources for addressing racism in cultural institutions, including libraries!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Heritage [mailto:heritage-bounces@omls.oregon.gov]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>INFO Heritage * OPRD via Heritage<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 17, 2020 3:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> heritage@omls.oregon.gov<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Heritage] Oregon Heritage: Addressing Racism in Historic Places and Heritage Organizations<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Oregon Heritage: Addressing Racism in Historic Places and Heritage Organizations<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The following statement and resources can be found on the Oregon Heritage website
<a href="https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/OH/pages/technicalresources.aspx#twelve">here</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Heritage organizations including museums, historic sites and downtowns, libraries, and archives are critical community resources. Museums are consistently documented as trusted sources of information.
Historic sites and downtowns define community character. Libraries and archives provide access to information. They are all places of community gathering
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">They are also places with a history of racism. The stories they have told and the resources they have collected reflect the race and view point of Oregon’s majority. These institutions were
generally built exclusive of people of color and other under-documented and under-recognized people. Traditionally, the history of oppression and abuse has not been interpreted and recognized. Nor have the contributions, triumphs and successes of people of
color. Whether purposefully or not, these spaces have likely been oppressive or unwelcoming to members of your community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Over the last several years, many heritage organizations have started to recognize and change this inequality. They are looking at who makes up their community and working to better reflect
that diversity. They are purposefully collecting and telling more stories of people of color and cultural minorities. They are working with organizations that represent communities of color, not only to tell the stories more completely, but to invite people
to visit, research, and explore. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Heritage organizations and historic places have a responsibility to dismantle racism and inequity. Oregon Heritage is committed to this effort. The
<a href="https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/OH/Documents/2020_Oregon_Heritage_Plan.pdf">
Oregon Heritage Plan’</a>s four goals directly support heritage organizations move forward in this effort. Here are ways to take action now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Goal 1: Include More Voices
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Expand the narrative of history told and preserved in the state to capture previously excluded or marginalized voices for a more complex and accurate depiction of Oregon’s historical events.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Historic Downtowns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">When you highlight the history of the building also talk about the business owner who is there now (historic downtowns have some of the most diverse business
owners in the state).<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Ensure that your downtown revitalization is for your entire community, by inviting their participation in the plan for design, events and business make-up.
The <a href="https://albertamainst.org/about/historical-markers-project/">Alberta Street Black Heritage Markers</a> is a permanent public art installation that honors and documents the history of the African American community on Alberta Street and included
extensive public engagement in its development.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Research workers and tell their story. The Springfield Museum shared a photo of the largely black road crew that paved the downtown.
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Museums<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l5 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Walk through your museum and ask whose stories and perspectives are missing. Invite other potential partner organizations to do this with you.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l5 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Uncover and tell stories of historically marginalized people in your newsletter.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l5 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Work with other organizations to learn how to research history of people of color.
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l5 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Tell the full range of the story of daily living, the struggles and the triumphs. Linn County Historical Museum worked with Oregon Black Pioneers to
<a href="https://oregonheritage.wordpress.com/2018/03/23/telling-the-pioneer-story-by-including-untold-stories/">
incorporate black history</a> in their permanent exhibit. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l5 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Start intentionally collecting underrepresented stories and items from your community.
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Archives and Libraries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l6 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Collect the stories of the broadest history.
<a href="https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/oma/latino-a">Latino/a People and Culture</a>- Oregon Multicultural Archives<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level1 lfo4"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Highlight collections through newsletters and programs.
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Goal 2: Increase Access to Heritage<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Strive to engage more community members and visitors in local heritage by increasing awareness of resources and making them available to diverse audiences and potential stakeholders.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Make a board level commitment to serving everyone in your community.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Identify who makes up the community and barriers that stop members of the community from accessing the organization and its resources.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Evaluate physical and social cues for visitors: images, welcome signs in other languages, etc…<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Provide customer service and unconscious bias training, so everyone who walks in the door is welcomed.
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Advertise by supporting nonprofits that serve people of color.
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Offer special opportunities or discounts to organizations that serve people of color.
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Goal 3: Promote the Value of Heritage<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Share the economic, cultural, and educational value of heritage with the public and decision markers to inspire awareness, funding, and respect for long-term preservation of Oregon’s heritage.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Historical perspective is a tool for understanding. Provide that historical backing to support social movements in your community.
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Historic places are an economic resource for low income communities and downtowns in distress. Use preservation of those places to support minority business
owners. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Historic places can be a sanctuary. Offer your special place as a one to recover and continue the work of social justice.
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Goal 4: Pursue Best Practices<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Pursue professional standards and best practices related to heritage process, standards, and organizational management to ensure healthy, sustainable heritage organizations.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo7"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Have a discussion about racism and white privilege with your board.
<o:p></o:p></span>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo7"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Use the
<a href="https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race">“Talking about Race”</a> resources from the National Museum of African American History and Culture or other reliable sources.
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo7"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Use Nonprofit Association of Oregon’s
<a href="https://nonprofitoregon.org/sites/default/files/uploads/file/NAO-Equity-Lens-Guide-FINAL-ADA_0.pdf">
Equity & Inclusion Lens Guide</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo7"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Establish an inclusion and equity plan.
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo7"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Ensure your board reflects your community. Complete an exercise to consider this using
<a href="https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/OH/Documents/Board%20Training%20Packet%20_Oregon%20Heritage%20Summit_03.07.2019.pdf">
board management tools</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo7"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Provide resources and training for staff and volunteers.
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo7"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Ensure your planning processes engage the community.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Tools<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/OH/Documents/HB34_Researching_Historically_Marganized_Communities.pdf">Researching Historically Marginalized Communities</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://nonprofitoregon.org/pp/leadership">Nonprofit Association of Oregon resources</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://inclusivehistorian.com/">The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.aam-us.org/programs/resource-library/diversity-equity-accessibility-and-inclusion-resources/">Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion Resources- American Alliance
of Museums</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.aam-us.org/programs/facing-change1/">Facing Change: Advancing Museum Board Diversity & Inclusion</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/tools-resources-categories/diversity-equity-and-inclusion">Council of Nonprofits Tools</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Organizations<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.oregonblackpioneers.org/">Oregon Black Pioneers</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.oregonnikkei.org/">Japanese American Museum of Oregon</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.oregonccba.org/">Oregon Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/cis">Oregon Commission on Indian Services</a> - Nine Federally Recognized Tribes (museums, cultural resources, language programs, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://savingplaces.org/">National Trust for Historic Preservation</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.ohs.org/blog/welcoming-challenging-conversations.cfm">Welcoming Challenging Conversations: An Oregon Historical Quarterly Issue about White Supremacy and Resistance</a>
– Oregon Historical Society<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://mnch.uoregon.edu/exhibits/racing-change-oregons-civil-rights-years-eugene-story">Racing to Change: Oregon’s Civil Rights Years - The Eugene Story</a> – UO Museum of Natural
& Cultural History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://multcolib.omeka.net/exhibits/show/our-story/home">Our Story: Portland through an African American Lens</a> – Multnomah County Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://oregonheritage.wordpress.com/2019/09/16/building-institutional-awareness-of-why-telling-diverse-stories-matters/">Building Institutional Awareness of Why Telling Diverse Stories
Matters</a> – High Desert Museum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://oregonheritage.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/settling-in/">Settling In</a> – Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://oregonheritage.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/building-community-support/">Building Community Support</a> – City of Canby<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/oregondisintermentdocuments/intro/introtocoll">Oregon Chinese Disinterment Documents Collection</a> – Oregon Multicultural
Archives Oregon State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://albertamainst.org/">Alberta Main Street Renewed Call for Racial Justice</a> – Alberta Main Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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