Oregon
Waldport park and statue will honor Black Oregon homesteader and musician Louis Southworth
It’s solely a matter of time till somebody makes a film about Louis Southworth’s outstanding life.
An Oregon pioneer, an expert fiddle participant, a blacksmith, a soldier, a horse coach, a landowner who donated property for a faculty: That’s Louis Southworth. And, oh sure, born enslaved in Tennessee, a person who bought his freedom and lived his grownup life in Oregon throughout a interval when the state’s exclusion legal guidelines prohibited Black folks from residing right here.