Portland’s Compromise: The Colored School 1867-1872

This work was motivated by school integration efforts in the late 1970s in Portland, Oregon, and revealed that racially-motivated educational decisions were not new to Portland (as they were not to other cities across the nation). Previously unexamined school documents were explored as was census data.

Selected Works

History
Portland’s Compromise: The Colored School 1867-1872
The author visits post-Civil War racial history in the school system in Portland, Oregon.
Poetry
Inconsiderate Madness
Casey’s poems are compelling. Throughout, Casey’s lyrical voice resonates.
--Vivian Shipley
Fragrance Upon His Lips
Deft. Real, honest, terse, sinewy, searing, passionate poems of emotional and sensual immediacy
--Brian Doyle