UPDATE: Organizers announced Thursday that Zachary Stocks, executive director of Oregon Black Pioneers, has Covid and they they have had to cancel Sunday’s presentation. View the Future executive director Gretchen Dubie said Stocks will reschedule his talk once he and organizers can find a new date for the presentation.
— Lincoln Chronicle
YACHATS – The executive director of Oregon Black Pioneers will discuss the history of Oregon’s Black exclusion laws and the stories of the men and women who defied them during a presentation at the Yachats’ Commons on Sunday, April 13.
Zachary Stocks will explore some of the first acts of Oregon’s provisional and territorial governments that restricted the rights of Black Americans, a group which comprised less than one-percent of the population.
Where did these laws come from and what were their impacts?
Stocks has been visitor services manager of the Northwest African American Museum, director of Historical Seaport, and has worked as a public historian, museum professional and U.S. National Park Service ranger. He has also interned at Colonial Williamsburg, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park.
Oregon Black Pioneers is Oregon’s sole historical society dedicated to safeguarding and sharing the experiences of African Americans.
The 2 p.m. presentation is sponsored by View the Future and Yachatians for Social Justice. There is a suggested donation $5. For more information contact Joanne Kittel at joannekittel@viewthefuture.org.
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