2nd Annual LCLP Symposium on May 12, 2025 in Corvallis, Learn More
Vision: Letitia Carson’s story enables Black Oregonians, Indigenous community members, and the wider community to connect with the land as a source of healing, entrepreneurship, and economic justice, and inspires critical examination of Oregon’s contemporary racial demographics and inequalities.
Mission: Connect past with present, history with reconciliation, by honoring one of the first Black women to settle in Oregon, on land now part of OSU’s Soap Creek Beef Ranch.
How we do it:
- Partnership with four Black-led organizations: Black Oregon Land Trust, Oregon Black Pioneers, Mudbone Grown, and Linn-Benton Counties NAACP Branch.
- Storytelling: traveling exhibit, digital collection, interpretation at the land
- Field trips and events at the land, sharing her story, inspiring action.
Geographic reach: state
