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195 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Soon after I “discovered” Beatrice Cannady in 2002, I read a short article about her and Seattle activist Susie Revels Cayton by Quintard Taylor, a professor of history at the University of Washington. I contacted him to inquire whether he thought a book-length project would be viable. He told me in an e-mail message that he considered Cannady to be “an important and woefully understudied woman in Pacific Northwest history.” Professor Taylor confirmed what I already suspected: Cannady was a remarkable woman who advocated continually for her community. I began researching her and her civil rights campaign in Oregon; I had no idea at the time that I would devote seven years of my life to learning about hers. Then, in 2005, I had the good fortune to meet Mary Elizabeth Braun, acquisitions editor for Oregon State University Press, on a flight to Boise, Idaho. In between sessions at the 58th Annual Pacific Northwest History Conference, we shared a dinner and talked about Cannady. Mary, too, recognized how important Cannady’s career was to the state, the region, and the nation, and encouraged me to keep the Press in mind when I completed the manuscript. I am happy that I did, because I could not have asked for a stronger supporter of my research. Grants from a number of sources helped to make this book possible. I would like to thank the Oregon Historical Society for its Donald J. Sterling, Jr., Research Fellowship; the University of Oregon Center on Diversity and Community for a Graduate Research Award; the University of Oregon Graduate School for a Research Award; and the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication for several scholarships and travel grants. And I would be remiss if I did not thank Janice Dilg for “loaning” me her house while I was in Portland working at the society’s research library. I also appreciate the feedback I received from numerous individuals who read drafts of this book or journal articles. They include: Marianne Keddington-Lang, Stephen Ponder, Elizabeth Reis, H. Leslie Steeves, Quintard Taylor, and reviewers for Oregon State University Press, American Journalism, Oregon Historical Quarterly, and Pacific Northwest Quarterly. Barbara Redwine, Beatrice Cannady’s great-niece, found me through the “other” imagined community—the Internet. She has been most generous with her time and I am very grateful for the personal papers and photographs she shared with me. Finally, many, many thanks go to James Mangun and Shawn Mangun, who now know as much about Beatrice as I do. 196 CREDITS Photos on the cover, half-title, and pages 6, 10, 32, 63, 98, 111, 177, 183, and 193 are courtesy of Barbara J. Redwine. The following photos have been reprinted with permission from the Oregon Historical Society: page 1 (orHi 63845); page 49 (OrHi 81811); page 191 (OrHi 51169). The photo on page 170 has been reprinted courtesy of the Oregonian. Previous versions of some chapters have appeared in American Journalism, Oregon Historical Quarterly, and Pacific Northwest Quarterly. Portions of Chapter 8 were published in Voices from Within the Veil: African Americans and the Experience of Democracy; they have been reprinted with permission from Cambridge Scholars Publishing. See the bibliography for further details. ...

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