60th Anniversary Sale: Black History Month

All year long, in celebration of our 60th anniversary, we're offering a 60% discount on a rotating selection of books. You'll never find a better price on these gems from our publishing past, but you'll need to act fast, as the selection changes monthly. In honor of Black History Month, our sale books for February explore different aspects of the Black experience in Oregon. You have through Tuesday, March 2, to get 60% off these titles when ordering through our website. To get the discount, enter the promo code OSU60 at checkout.

The Color of Night: Race, Railroaders, and Murder in the Wartime West
Max G. Geier
On an unusually cold January night in 1943, Martha James was murdered on a train in rural Oregon, near the Willamette Valley town of Albany. She was white, southern, and newly-married to a Navy pilot. Despite inconsistent and contradictory eyewitness accounts, a young black cook by the name of Robert Folkes, a trainman from South Central Los Angeles, was charged with the crime. The ensuing investigation and sensational murder trial captured national attention during a period of intense wartime fervor and extensive black domestic migration.
List Price: $24.95 | Sale Price $9.98 with promo code OSU60 (expires 3/2/2021)

A Force for Change: Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1912-1936
Kimberley Mangun
African American journalist Beatrice Morrow Cannady was one of Oregon's most dynamic civil rights activists. A Force for Change illuminates her important role in advocating for better race relations in Oregon in the early decades of the twentieth century, and describes her encounters with the period’s leading black artists, editors, politicians, and intellectuals, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, A. Philip Randolph, Oscar De Priest, Roland Hayes, and James Weldon Johnson.
List Price: $24.95 | Sale Price $9.98 with promo code OSU60 (expires 3/2/2021)

Breaking Chains: Slavery on Trial in Oregon
R. Gregory Nokes
In Breaking Chains, R. Gregory Nokes tells the story of the only slavery case ever adjudicated in Oregon courts—Holmes v. Ford. Drawing on the court record of this landmark case, Nokes offers an intimate account of the relationship between a slave and his master from the slave’s point of view. Oregon was the only free state admitted to the union with a voter-approved constitutional clause banning African Americans and, despite the prohibition against slavery, many in Oregon tolerated it, and supported politicians who were pro-slavery, including Oregon’s first territorial governor. Told against the background of the national controversy over slavery, Breaking Chains sheds light on a somber part of Pacific Northwest history.
List Price: $19.95 | Sale Price $7.98 with promo code OSU60 (expires 3/2/2021)

Remembering the Power of Words: The Life of an Oregon Activist, Legislator, and Community Leader
Avel Louise Gordly with Patricia A. Schechter
Remembering the Power of Words recounts the personal and professional journey of Avel Gordly, the first African-American woman elected to the Oregon State Senate. The book is a brave and honest telling of Gordly’s life. She shares the challenges and struggles she faced growing up black in Portland in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as her determination to attend college, the dedication to activism that took her from Portland to Africa, and her eventual decision to run for a seat in the state legislature.
List Price: $18.95 | Sale Price $7.58 with promo code OSU60 (expires 3/2/2021)