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Oral history interview with Bobbie Doré Foster [Sound Recording 02]
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- 2017-09-12 (Creation)
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WAVE (Format); 01:29:31
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Bobbie Doré Foster was born in Abbeville, Louisiana, in 1938. In 1965, she moved to Astoria, Oregon, where she attended Clatsop Community College. She then lived in Seattle, Washington, where she and Bernie Foster were married. The couple settled in Portland, Oregon, and in 1975, they founded The Skanner newspaper, which later added an office in Seattle. In 1989, Foster completed her education in journalism at Portland State University. She serves as The Skanner's executive editor. In 2013, she and Bernie Foster received the Oregon Historical Society's History Makers award.
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Session 2. This oral history interview with Bobbie Doré Foster was conducted by Jan Dilg in the office of The Skanner Newsgroup from August 29 to September 26, 2017. Bobbie Dore Foster was nominated by Oregonians to be interviewed as part of a program by the Oregon Historical Society Research Library to enhance and expand the range of voices in the library's collections. Interviewees are selected from the pool of nominees by a staff committee appointed by the historical society's executive director. The interview was conducted in three sessions. In the second interview session, conducted on September 12, 2017, Foster discusses the Skanner Foundation, including the scholarship and awards program, and fundraising events. She talks about her and Bernie Foster’s involvement in the renaming of Union Avenue to Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. She also talks about a fire at a building owned by The Skanner that occurred during that time. She then discusses her involvement with several community organizations, including the Rotary Club, De La Salle North Catholic High School, and the NAACP. She also talks about her involvement with the Saint Andrew Catholic Church.
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Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.
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- eng
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- African Americans--Oregon--Portland
- African American women journalists--Oregon--Portland
- African American newspapers--Oregon--Portland
- Journalists--Oregon--Portland
- Women journalists--Oregon--Portland
- Newspapers--Oregon--Portland
- The Skanner Newsgroup
- The Skanner Foundation (Portland, Or.)
- Foster, Bernie (Bernard), 1940-
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- Dilg, Janice (Janice Lynn) (Contributor)