White Supremacy in Oregon History: Mark O. Hatfield Lecture Series Post-Lecture Discussion

Abstract

On Tuesday, October 27, 2020, Henry Lous Gates, Jr., spoke about his book, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, as part of the Oregon Historical Society’s (OHS) annual Mark O. Hatfield. This roundtable discussion was a special event held on Thursday, October 29, 2020. Justice Adrienne Nelson moderated a conversation among three Oregon scholars — Dr. Karen Gibson, Dr. Darrell Millner, and Dr. Carmen P. Thompson — who reflected on how Gates’s scholarship connects with their own work, offering new ways of understanding our state’s history and its place in the nation and the world. Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, Gates’s talk and this roundtable were held virtually.