Volunteer Ideas
- Volunteer for RG school play
- North West service event
- Kennedy Service day
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Monday, February 9, 2015
2/5/15 Portland Black History: Entrepreneurship
A Black entrepreneur W.D. Allen launched the Golden West Hotel in 1906. The Golden West was designed to serve the Black railway porters, cooks, barbers and waiters recruited by the major railroads. It provided "all the conveniences of home" for Black workers denied accommodation in Portland's white owned hotels, and was a center of African American social life until the hotel's closure in 1931.
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