For decades, Oregon legally excluded Black people from settling in ... first emigrant wagon trains over the Oregon Trail. But as more and more white settlers arrived in the area, they brought ...

Bush, who was biracial, helped lead white families that left Missouri in 1844 along the Oregon Trail. Missouri was a slave state at the time and was forcing free Black people like Bush to leave.

During the workweek, Stocks is executive director of Oregon Black Pioneers, a group that documents and disseminates the African American history of a state that’s 87 percent white. On weekends ...

Raoul Walsh’s (“White Heat”) 1930 epic, “The Big Trail,” chronicling the voyage across the Oregon Trail, features a familiar scene to fans of the Western genre. In it, the pioneer and his love ...

In modern games like Fallout, players expect random encounters when they're charting a course through the map, a feature ... of eastern white settlers' The Oregon Trail was created as a teaching ...

But as more white settlers arrived over the Oregon Trail, the newcomers passed discriminatory laws to keep blacks out. Long before Oregon became a state, black people were in the Far West.