text: The Klan was big in Eugene and the rest of Oregon in the 1920-25 timeframe.  
  
  There were so few blacks, though, that they had to settle for nailing the American Flag across the door of the Catholic Church and picking on Jews.
  
  Quite a few blacks came to work in Kaiser's shipbuilding yards in Portland during the war (Vanport, Oregon) so that solved the scarcity of targets, but by then some sanity had appeared.