The Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity is responsible for working with all members of the University of Oregon community to ensure that the university is meeting the letter and spirit of its legal obligations related to affirmative action, equal opportunity and nondiscrimination, and to support the university’s commitment to diversity. The collection contains records that document the functions and activities of this office.

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Guide to the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Records

The Office of Multicultural Academic Success (OMAS) at the University of Oregon, which took over (in part) the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Council for Minority Education, specializes in providing a culturally supportive environment that empowers self-identified students of color to fulfill their educational and career goals. The collection contains records that document the functions and activities of the Council on Minority Education and the Office of Multicultural Affairs. As of November 2012, the archives do not yet contain any records from OMAS.

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Guide to the Office of Multicultural Academic Success (OMAS) Records

The UO Center on Diversity and Community (CoDaC) is committed to advancing inclusive excellence through critical thinking and an ethic of care. The collection contains reports and VHS tapes on CoDaC projects concerning diversity and affirmative action.

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Guide to the Center on Diversity and Community Records

Earl Conrad (1912–1986) was an author who specialized in biographies and books about the African American experience and race relations, among other non-fiction books and criticisms. The collection contains manuscript material and published works, professional and personal correspondence, research materials, underground newspapers, teaching materials, reviews, publicity, and news clippings.

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Guide to the Earl Conrad papers

D.W. Hawes sold slaves in the Antebellum south. In this letter, Hawes writes from Richmond, Virginia, to tell W.P. Goodbar that he has twelve slaves for sale, and that he will meet Goodbar in Atlanta to sell them.

Call number: CA 1857 Feb 14

Guide to the D.W. Hawes letter to W.P. Goodbar concerning the sale of slaves

Francis Scheffer sold slaves in the Antebellum south. In this letter, Scheffer denies that the slave he sold to Hawes and Bartlett in Atlanta, Georgia, was unsound.

Call number: CA 1857 Apr 18

Guide to the Francis Scheffer letter to Hawes and Bartlett concerning the sale of a slave

Jacob Vanderpool was an African American owner of a saloon, restaurant, and boarding house living in Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon at a time when the Oregon Territory government enforced an exclusion law it had passed in 1844 that prevented blacks from living in the territory. In 1851, Vanderpool’s neighbor brought suit against him, and Judge Thomas Nelson expelled him from the territory. This small collection consists of photostat copies of case documents.

Call number: B 122

Guide to the Theophilus Magruder v. Jacob Vanderpool Case Documents

MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano Aztlan), a University of Oregon student union began as a part of the Chicano Student Union in 1964. The group took its current title in 1969. The collection contains publications and pamphlets related to 2009 conferences.

Call number: UA 079

Guide to the MEChA Records

Beyond Black & White was an exhibit by Richard Frazier Crawford (dates unknown) that depicted African-American men in Oregon, 1980-2000. The collection consists of 34 color images.

Call number: PH334

Guide to the Richard Frazier Crawford Beyond Black & White exhibit photographs

The Ku Klux Klan, Tillamook Chapter No. 8 was active from 1921 through 1938; its activities were mostly anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic. The collection contains correspondence, minutes, reports, membership lists and paraphernalia, financial records, an account ledger, and costume insignia. Included are some records pertaining to the Klan’s Empire Mutual Life Insurance Company, a national organization.

Call number: Bx 046

Guide to the Ku Klux Klan Tillamook, Oregon Chapter No. 8 Records