Charlie Betty Bloomer

Charlie Betty Bloomer (she/her) is an Oregon-based writer and incoming scholar of distinction at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her work has been in The Oregonian, Street Roots and Oregon Humanities. Follow her @charliebettywrites on Instagram.

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442: The uncovered history of Hood River’s Japanese farmers

How the racist treatment of Japanese Americans farmers in Hood River, Oregon made national headlines during World War II