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8. From the Oregon Constitution, Bill of Rights

Reply to packman (Original post)

Sun Jun 23, 2019, 11:40 AM

Jun 2019

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Article I Section 35.– No free negro, or mulatto, not residing in this State at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall come, reside, or be within this State, or hold any real estate, or make any contracts, or maintain any suit therein; and the Legislative Assembly shall provide by penal laws, for the removal, by public officers, of all such negroes, and mulattoes, and for their effectual exclusion from the State, and for the punishment of persons who shall bring them into the state, or employ, or harbor them.

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Repealed in 1926.

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Oregon - Its racial history [View all] packman Jun 2019 OP

Thanks for posting. Most don't know about this. brush Jun 2019 #1

Oregon and Indiana at one point had the largest number of KKK's gopiscrap Jun 2019 #2

Its racist history. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2019 #3

There is a lot of self-selection in Oregon dalton99a Jun 2019 #4

They also moved up from California because it was Igel Jun 2019 #7

I didn't know that, thanks Beringia Jun 2019 #5

I went to Willamette University in Salem in 1968. panader0 Jun 2019 #6

From the Oregon Constitution, Bill of Rights sl8 Jun 2019 #8

THANK YOU. I didn't know about this. As an SC resident, I am sick and tired of some people raccoon Jun 2019 #9

Hmm stopdiggin Jun 2019 #10

I said, Southerners haven't cornered the market on racism. Other states have racist incidents in raccoon Jun 2019 #11

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