Wildrose Communication

Catching up to Wildrose Communication...a new Mike Malone novel is on its way: Cost of Goods Sold. I edited this one, too...It features a young Chinese woman as well as the usual suspects from Book #1 of the Silicon Valley Quartet.

Side yard of a neighbor, Halloween afternoon.

Did you know that the original 1857 Oregon constitution denied the vote to African-Americans, and both Japanese and Chinese Americans? Women and Native Americans aren't mentioned at all. It banned slavery, but excluded free blacks from living here.

Not only that, in 1870, the Oregon legislature rejected the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting voting rights to black adult males. It took 90 years--until 1957--for the recalcitrant Oregon legislature to ratify the thing.

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Oregon History Project Delazon Smith, Chairman of the Committee on Suffrage and Election, presented this handwritten report to the Oregon Constitutional Convention in Salem on August 25, 1857.