Museum After Hours presents As Long As There’s Blood in This Body: Black History at Hanford and the Tri-Cities
Fort Walla Walla Museum 755 NE Myra Rd, Walla Walla, WashingtonIn 1950 there were only seven Black people in Richland. Black emigration to Hanford 's construction contractors peaked at around 1,213 in a five-acre ghetto on the eastern fringe of Pasco. Meanwhile, Kennewick was a "sundown town," with a curfew for Black people. WSU historian and professor Robert Franklin has absorbed more than 30 oral… Continue reading Museum After Hours presents As Long As There’s Blood in This Body: Black History at Hanford and the Tri-Cities