The Oregon Black Pioneers’ Black History Bus Tour will explore the North Coast in September, stopping at sites of African American historical significance.

The tour, which will leave from the Charles Jordan Community Center in Portland on the morning of Sept. 18 and return that evening, winds from Portland to Seaside and includes a series of guest speakers and films on African American history in Oregon.

Zachary Stocks, the executive director of the Oregon Black Pioneers and an education technician at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, said he is proud the tour will resume for the first time in six years. New staffing, increased fundraising and partnerships allowed the organization to bring back the program.

The tour includes learning about Moses Williams, an ordnance sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient at Fort Stevens, as well as York, the only Black member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, at Fort Clatsop and jazz clubs in Seaside.

Stocks said Oregon Black Pioneers tries to emphasize that Black history is everywhere in Oregon, not just in Portland. The tour allows the nonprofit to share the stories of the African American experience at the sites where they happened. 

For more information, go to oregonblackpioneers.org.

The Oregon Black Pioneers will host a bus tour on Sept. 18 with stops on the North Coast.

For more information online, go to: oregonblackpioneers.org