Scenery at Deer Lake

ID: 5868 ~ Source: Hauck, Janet. “Deer Lake Park, Deer Lake, Washington •.” •, 2 Dec. 2020, www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/deer-lake-park/.

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African American youth enjoying the scenic beauty of an inland northwest lake.

This file appears in: Deer Lake Irrigated Orchard Company: A testament to the resolve of early Black Spokane

Deer Lake Irrigated Orchard Company: A testament to the resolve of early Black Spokane

By John Grieshaber

Around the turn of the last century numerous African Americans migrated from the deep South to Spokane in hopes of building a freer and more prosperous life. In which some of them achieved this with…