# Vanport, Liberty Ships, and Jim Crow Shipyards

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> **[Vanport, Liberty Ships, and Jim Crow Shipyards](https://www.oldsaltblog.com/2020/09/vanport-liberty-ships-and-jim-crow-shipyards/)**
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> In recent protests in Portland, the white nationalist group Proud Boys assembled on the edge of town in Delta Park, while, close by, Black Lives Matters counter-protestors gathered, on the other side of the highway, in a section of the … Continue...

> This proved to be a problem for Portland because the city and the state of Oregon had a long-established history of excluding black residents. The first law excluding Blacks from the state was enacted in 1844. [Oregon entered the Union in 1859 as a “whites-only” state](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/06/07/when-portland-banned-blacks-oregons-shameful-history-as-an-all-white-state/). The original state constitution banned slavery but also excluded nonwhites from living there. The exclusionary laws remained on the books until 1922.