Presenter - Jerrelene Williamson.
Jerrelene has collected
photographs and artifacts of Spokane's early black population as part of
"A Centennial Tribute to Northwest Black Pioneers." She has awards from
Rogers High School - Distinguished Alumni, from the Editorial Dept. of
the Spokesman Review - Gold Pen Award, African American students of SCC -
Service of Excellentce Award and she is the recipient of the 2003
Jefferson Award.
Please join us to hear about African Americans in Spokane. We will
learn how the Northern Pacific Coal Company recurited blacks from the
South to break the coal strike in Roslyn, Washington in 1888. It was the
greatest migration of blacks to the Northwest. It was years later when
the mines closed in Roslyn that the black workers and their familes went
to Spokane, Seattle, Portland and other parts of the Northwest.
Cookies & Social Time: 12:30 PM
Meeting starts at 1:00 PM
