Helen Marie Casey

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

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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.