Uplifting local histories and stories of communities of color is vital to our work.
In November, we began a push to get books from author talks we and/or our community partners have hosted in recent years into Lake Oswego School District schools. Thanks to a generous donation from our friends at LO for Love and collaboration with LOSD librarian Carrie Light, there are now displays of with the 6 recommended books available for checkout in both high schools and middle schools in LOSD.
We look forward to continuing to build on this community collaboration to inform and empower youth to be antiracist!
Book List
- It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History by Moe Bowstern, Mic Crenshaw, Alec Dunn, Celina Flores, Julie Perini, and Erin Yanke
- The Place We Make by Sarah L. Sanderson
- Funeral for Flaca by Emilly Prado
- Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley by David G. Lewis
- The Portland Black Panthers by Lucas N. N. Burke and Judson L. Jeffries
- A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon 1788-1940 by Elizabeth McLagan