Jehiel Brown Black History Work by Jehiel Brown

Albina Neighborhood Portland

jbrown0823 — 2025-03-13 20:50:49 UTC

The Albina Neighborhood in north and northeast Portland was populated by mostly black people who rented housing but the city started to evict people while demolishing and selling buildings as gangs like the Crips and Bloods sold drugs at a high-income price around the Albina district Unjust housing policies in Portland have made it difficult for Albina residents to find stable housing. Absent landlords, speculators, and predatory lenders dominate the market. Residents face rising bills and poor living conditions, violating how they live. There needed to be fair housing solutions. While unemployment, drug use, and violence grew, families who could leave Albina moved away, resulting in more abandoned properties.

In the 1990s, the City of Portland started to strengthen Albina. The Portland Development Commission offered loans to outside home buyers and business owners who were attracted by the Victorian homes and low prices.

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/albina-portland-1870/

Motown Records

jbrown0823 — 2025-03-29 19:13:40 UTC

formerly called Tamla Records, Motown Records was founded by Berry Gordy, who purchased a home in Detroit, Michigan. Motown was a nickname for "motor town," where Motown Records soon became one of the most successful Black-owned record labels in history. Motown is unforgettable not just because of their lovely melodies and universal messages but because of Berry Gordy, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, and groups such as the Temptations, Four Tops, and the Supremes. Motown has several new-age rappers with music that slaps. Artists signed to the label include City Girls, Migos, Lil Baby, Lil Yachty, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, and more from the hip hop and R&B genres. Mo town has been around for a long time, and that is for a reason

.https://www.motownrecords.com/

Albina Neighborhood Portland 2

jbrown0823 — 2025-03-29 19:14:43 UTC

The Albina Neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, was home to most of the Portland African American population. In the 1870s and 1880s, the neighborhood was populated with new working immigrants from Europe,20 years later rich people from Portland went across the river to purchase land in the Albina district where most African American residents of Portland rented homes or apartments on the west side of the river, which is closer to the city center. In 1967, there was a riot where 100 people gathered at Irving Park to address racial equality and discrimination towards blacks because, at the time, there was unjust police brutality in the state of Oregon, and blacks were being targeted.

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/albina-riot-portland-oregon-1967/

Motown Records 2

jbrown0823 — 2025-03-31 19:29:00 UTC

During and after World War I, joining many African Americans who sought jobs, Berry Gordy moved with his family to Michigan because, at the time, he lived in Georgia, which was part of the great migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans. In 1959, Berry Gordy started Motown Records. This company played a dominant role in the music industry and a key role in music history by promoting soul and R&B artists. It became one of the most successful Black-owned businesses and one of America's most influential independent record companies

Gordy’s parents, hard-working entrepreneurs, instilled in their children the gospel of hard work and religious faith.

Berry Gordy sold Motown in 1988, and today it is part of Capitol Records under Universal Music Group.

Charles Jordan

jbrown0823 — 2025-03-31 21:47:28 UTC

Charles Ray Jordan (1937-2014) was a significant figure in the city. Former City Commissioner Mike Lindberg said, “He was just a giant in this city.” As the first African American member of the Portland City Council, he focused on civil rights, housing, and education.

Jordan worked to help underserved communities and was involved in many organizations promoting equality. His efforts continue to inspire others in the fight for civil rights.

Jordan helped improve every neighborhood and benefited all residents. On a national level, he worked to include people of color in environmental and land conservation efforts. He engaged with national parks and conservation groups to support this mission.

Charles Jordan 2

jbrown0823 — 2025-04-02 19:51:31 UTC

I have gone to the Charles Jordan Community Center many times since I was in elementary school. i go there to work out lifting weights or on the court to get better at basketball to achieve my dream of playing in the NBA. They also provide a game room with game consoles, a pool table, and TV screens to watch an NBA game that's on. I’ve played basketball there for years and plan to work out regularly in the future. Charles Jordan’s legacy improves lives today and in the future, including mine and the youth coming up. Charles Jordan was Portland’s first African-American City Commissioner, serving from 1974 to 1984. He directed Portland Parks & Recreation for 14 years. In 2012, the City Council named the University Park Community Center in his honor. “Model the way, you never know who is watching.” - Charles Jordan

Black panther party

jbrown0823 — 2025-04-03 20:08:48 UTC

The Black Panther Party was launched in October 1966 in Oakland, California, by two political friends of a five-year friendship, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, who were both authors with ambitions to support self-defense.

The two of them were sons of families that were a part of the second great migration.

Being born into the racism that was the issue that was going on around them, they grew up wanting to see a change, so they started their own thing in the black panther party.

Huey Newton, creator of the black panther party book and organization

They aimed to prevent police violence and support African American communities through helping hands like education and healthcare, heavily impacting the racial justice rights movement. Patrol Black neighborhoods to protect residents from police brutality. The Black Panther Party was a rebel organization with principles of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality. Portland, Oregon, was a big factor for the Black Panther Party. In June 1969, Kent Ford announced that the group would join the Black Panther Party after a black panther was beaten and arrested by Portland police. Ford proceeded to open an office on Northeast Cook Street and Union Avenue. By the end of that year, the Portland Panthers started a Children’s Breakfast Program for 125 kids for kids to eat before school every day and then opened a free health clinic on North Wiliams. In 1970, the BPP opened a dental clinic at 2341 North Williams. Their health clinic was knocked down for Emanuel Hospital's expansion, so they moved their dental practice to the Kaiser clinic at 214 N Russell and relocated their medical clinic to the former dental space on North Williams.

Black Panther Party 2

jbrown0823 — 2025-04-03 20:40:49 UTC

Kent Ford, leader of the portland black Panther Party chapter, had a publicized arrest saying he was running a crew that sold candy door-to-door and sending money home, while he had turned down a college scholarship to support his mother and siblings in Richmond, California. him being the reason the Portland chapter was growing, including it being a third of women in the group. Original group members included Johnson, former U.S. Marine, Percy Hampton, who joined while still at Jefferson High School, Tommy Mills, a highly talented Vietnam War vet, Joyce Radford, who volunteered for the medical clinic, and Sandra Ford, whose work at the medical clinic started up her new career.