Oregon State University
Oregon African American Railroad Porters Oral History Collection


Si Greene Oral History Interview, Part 1. August 13, 1983

Si Greene Oral History Interview, Part 1

Interview conducted by Michael Grice.

August 13, 1983

Location:  Location Unknown.

Si Greene was born in Arkansas in the late 1910s and moved to Portland at eight years old. He describes growing up in Portland and organizing the Rockets basketball team with other kids from his church after a helpful reverend demanded the Y allow black children to use their facilities. Greene also relates incidences of confrontation and conflict between himself and co-workers and higher-ups at the railroad.