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First non-white Rose Festival Princess

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Edwin C. "Bill" Berry (left), director of the Urban League with a student from Commerce High School, first non-white Rose Festival princess. An Urban League photo.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
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Oregon Historical Society

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Young Women
  2. African Americans
  3. Oregon
  4. Portland
  5. Rose Festival Association (Portland, Or.)
  6. Social Integration
  7. Urban League Of Portland (Portland, Or.)
  8. Women

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