Skinner Butte has been a place to “mark” the city with powerful symbols

 

Sometimes these symbols united Eugene around a shared identity and other times they purposely divided and excluded people. The KKK prominently marked the side of Skinner Butte with a large KKK sign in the 1920s and later are suspected of being responsible for a series of lit crosses installed on the Butte.

Listen to Zachary Stocks and Eric Richardson discuss growing up in a state known for discrimination from it’s inception.

If you have difficulty with the audio, you can access the transcript here.
The Footnotes on the Butte project was funded in part by:
Bloomberg Connects
National Endowment for the Humanities
Shelton McMurphey Johnson House