donna maxey grew up here until the city forced her family and other black homeowners out st. we lived in a great big house on a double lot, living in the black community was so special. donna's parents moved from east texas to portland in the 1940s. her father opened a barber shop in the tightly knit albina community. mom had a little flower garden in the back. by 1960, portland had designated albina a slum. it had a motive. the neighborhood is downtown and near the river, a prime location for what the city called urban renewal. we saw it coming. daddy had been involved in politics, so he knew how things went. he knew that he was losing his barbershop and that we were going to lose our home. so albina was not a decaying community? no. at the time, 80% of portland's black population lived in albina, when thousands had to move, they got a fraction of their property values. families who refused to leave ran the risk of losing everything, and the city denied responsibility for any damages. we were the last ones to leave our neighborhood because daddy said, i am not accepting any,