Offbeat Oregon History podcast

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Mill owner’s fight with city sparked a race riot

Mill owner’s fight with city sparked a race riotanteayer9 min

It's an event remembered with some shame in Oregon: A group of innocent, terrified men and women found themselves at the mercy of an angry mob, pawns in a power struggle between a mill owner and a group of townspeople. (Toledo, Lincoln County; 1920s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1302a-toledo-riot-mixed-racism-and-labor-unrest.html)