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institutional legislation

Oregon's Black Exclusion Laws

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Oregon's Black Exclusion Laws
Oregon's Black Exclusion Laws

Oregon's territorial and early state laws banned Black settlement, making it the only free state with constitutional exclusion language and shaping a lasting demographic and political legacy.

African American Jim Crow

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