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Vanport: The Black City Oregon Tried to Wash Away


Vanport was built fast, and erased even faster.
They called it a flood.
But the truth is — it was intentional neglect.

⚠️ Over 18,000 people — most of them Black — were displaced in a single day.
No warning. No help. No return.

They didn’t just lose homes.
They lost history, community, legacy, and land.

🕯️ Vanport wasn’t just a city.
It was a Black ecosystem.
And what they tried to drown — we resurrect with memory.

🖤 Echoes of Hoodoo presents: The Lost Black Cities Series – Vanport, Oregon

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