McClintock, Nathan 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3634-3799 et Coplen, Amy K.
(2023).
Helping each other to help ourselves : Viviane Barnett, the Green Fingers Program, and black agrarian upbuilding in Albina
Oregon historical quarterly
, vol. 124
, nº 2.
pp. 118-157.
Résumé
In May 1968, on the heels of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the National Guard rolled into Portland’s Albina district — not to subdue uprising and racial unrest as they were doing in other cities — but to prepare the ground for Green Fingers, a network of community gardens spearheaded by African American real estate broker Viviane L. Barnett. With the motto of “Helping Each Other to Help Ourselves,” Barnett conceived of Green Fingers as a tangible, self-help alternative to inadequate and paternalistic state welfare programs. Green Fingers ran for fourteen years and was a model for other community garden programs that would emerge across the city, but its story is absent from Portland’s widely rehearsed history of progressive planning and sustainability. Drawing on newspaper articles, archival sources, and interviews with her contemporaries, this article unearths the history of Green Fingers and Barnett’s contribution to Black community development and self-determination in Albina.
| Type de document: | Article |
|---|---|
| Mots-clés libres: | Community gardens; urban agriculture; food security; Portland, Oregan |
| Centre: | Centre Urbanisation Culture Société |
| Date de dépôt: | 24 oct. 2023 13:46 |
| Dernière modification: | 24 oct. 2023 13:46 |
| URI: | https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/13621 |
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