Martin Luther King visited Portland in 1961 and met with leaders of the Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church. Rev. O.B. Williams stands on the far left.
The Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church stands on the southeast corner of N. Vancouver Ave. and Fargo Street. It was originally built in 1909 for the Central Methodist Episcopal Church. Vancouver Avenue (established in 1944) purchased the building in 1951 and inhabits it still. The church was renovated and enlarged in 1957-1958.
A photograph of the house on the Flowers family farm. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Flowers farm, Lents, 20 acres, built 1903."
A photograph of Ervin Flowers leading a horse down a path. Allen Flowers stands to the side. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Ervin, Dad Flowers, and Maude."
A photograph of seven people seated in or standing beside a horse-drawn wagon on the Flowers family farm near Mt. Scott in Southeast Portland. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "On the farm. Leaving for picnic on the Clackamas River. Flowers Farm, Lents."
A photograph of the jitney bus operated by the Flowers family filled with passengers. Several people are seated in the bus and a small group stands in front of the bus. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Flowers family jitney. Back row standing: Jan Minor, Almas Morrow, Lloyd Flowers. Seated far left of jitney, the Paynes. Woman standing in jitney, Mrs. Allen."
A photograph of the Flowers brothers with friends. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph identifies the people in the photographs from left to right as: Ervin Flowers. Elmer Flowers, Vassie Cash, Lee Hankins, and Ralph Flowers. Ervin Flowers and Ralph Flowers each hold a shotgun. A dog and a stuffed pheasant lay on the ground in front of the group.
A photograph of Ruth Flowers and Ralph Flowers with their son, Clifford Flowers. They are standing in front of an automobile in a residential neighborhood. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Ralph and Ruth Flowers and son in front of family residences, nos. 381, 383, 385, 387 NE 1st Ave, Portland."
A photograph of a group of people standing in front of a tent on the Flowers family farm in the Lents neighborhood of Southeast Portland. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Allen Elmer [sic.] Flowers Farm on north slope of Mt. Scott. about 1895. Across from Lincoln Park Cemetery."
A photograph of Ervin Flowers standing between two horses in front of a barn at the Flowers family farm near Mt. Scott in Southeast Portland. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Ervin Flowers on Farm."
A photograph of Ruth Flowers and Rose Scott on the Flowers family farm near Mt. Scott in Southeast Portland. Ruth Flowers stands beside a dairy cow holding a lead rope. Rose Scott is kneeling by the cow's udder. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Ruth Flowers on the farm in Lents. Ruth Flowers & Rose Scott."
A photograph of Allen Ervin Flowers standing on a sidewalk in a residential neighborhood. He is holding the hand of a young child standing beside him who is identified as his grandson. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "E. A. [sic.] Flowers & grandson."
A head and shoulders portrait of Grandad Booth. A handwritten caption on the back of the photograph reads, "Grandad Booth on mother side (Flowers family)."
A head and shoulders portrait of Roscoe Dixon. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Roscoe Dixon, About 1880, Operated Roscoe's Oyster House in Astoria, Ore."
A photograph of Allen Ervin Flowers and Louisa M. Flowers standing beside rose bushes in the garden at their farm near Mt. Scott in Southeast Portland. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Mother and Dad Flowers on farm, north slope Mt. Scott."
A formal portrait of the Flowers family. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "1st row / Allen Ervin Flowers - Father / Louisa M. (Thacker) Flowers - Mother / Lloyd Flowers - Son / Ralph P. Flowers - Son / Elmer A. Flowers - Son / Ervin M. Flowers - Son."
Ralph Flowers, Ruth Flowers, and an unidentified man stand in front of the Flowers Auto Repair garage. There is a black car parked in front of the open service door. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "2125 N. Vancouver Ave. Portland. Ralph & Ruth Flowers."
An unidentified female employee of a shipyard in Portland during WWII takes a lunch break. Women were recruited into wartime industry jobs when men were sent overseas. Portland’s shipyards attracted thousands of women and African American workers looking for skilled, high-wage jobs.
Members of the Katherine Gray Club pack canned food into a box during a meeting in 1956. Katherine Gray, along with Hattie Redmond, co-founded the Colored Women’s Equal Suffrage League and worked with Beatrice Cannady to protest the showing of “Birth of a Nation,” the racist 1915 film by D.W. Griffith. She was also the president of the Oregon Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, which created a club in her honor.
Six unidentified women posing with their awards certificates during an Oregon Association of Colored Women’s Clubs annual Woman of the Year awards event, circa 1985.
Photographs and other materials that were assembled for the Northwest Black Heritage exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society, documenting the history and activities of the Oregon Association of Colored Women's Clubs and its constituent groups. The photographs depict the presidents of the Oregon Association of Colored Women's Clubs, including Katherine Gray, the association's first president; state and regional conventions; affiliated clubs; community service activities; winners of the association's Katherine Gray Memorial Scholarship; and federated girls' clubs associated with the organization. Also included is a photograph of the exhibit panel and photocopies of newspaper clippings and other materials used in the exhibit panel.