PASCO, Wash. – This Saturday, the Hanford History Project and Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church will host an important event aimed at preserving archiving the Jim Crow-era history of East Pasco.

WSU Tri-Cities and the church are organizing “Mapping East Pasco” from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The event seeks to document previously unarchived communities from the 1950s.

Black history in the Tri-Cities has deep roots, but urban renewal campaigns have paved over most historical sites. Historical sites like Morning Star and other churches, as well as Kurtzman Park and Salon Playa, are among the few remaining.

“The whole purpose of it is to preserve some history there that otherwise is going to be lost,” said Albert Wilkins, pastor for Morning Star.

In the 1950s, Pasco was 20% Black, the

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