Race exclusion of early Oregon is still embarrassing today

Published: April 17, 2020, 2 p.m.

In a country divided between slave states and free states just before the Civil War, Oregon was the only example of a third alternative: it was neither. (Statewide; 1859) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1308b-exclusion-law-marred-early-oregon-history.html)