Oregon Secretary of State

Sources and Credits

Sources

Gwen Carr and volunteer researchers at Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers

Oregon State Archives ​staff, student interns and volunteers

Willamette Heritage Center

The Oregon Encyclopedia

Perseverance: A History of African Americans in Oregon’s and Polk Counties by Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers

Breaking Chains: Slavery on Trial in the Oregon Territory by R. Gregory Nokes

A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940 by Elizabeth McLagan

Saga of the Mask Plantation North Carolina: Slaves Journey to Oregon by Barbara Hegne

Blackpast.org - Remembered and Reclaimed an Online Reference Guide to African American History

Friends of Leticia Carson Facebook Page

Find a Grave.com

Oregon State Archives - Early Oregonian Database

Lane County Historical Society

Ancestry.com

Familysearch.org

Credits

Gallery Exhibit

Theresa Rea
Layne Sawyer
Colleen Needham
Andy Needham
Mary Beth Herkert
Kristine Deacon
Austin Schulz
Phil Wiebe
Todd Shaffer
Gary Halvorson

Web Exhibit

Gary Halvorson