{"id":652,"date":"2023-11-15T17:28:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T01:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/?p=652"},"modified":"2023-11-21T09:35:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T17:35:17","slug":"peri-joy-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/2023\/11\/15\/peri-joy-long\/","title":{"rendered":"#55: Oregon&#8217;s Black Exclusion Laws and a Salem Church with Peri Joy Long &#8217;23, Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"579\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2023\/11\/Peri-Joy-Long-web.jpg\" alt=\"Peri Joy smiling and sitting on a rock wall in a flower garden.\" class=\"wp-image-654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2023\/11\/Peri-Joy-Long-web.jpg 579w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2023\/11\/Peri-Joy-Long-web-271x300.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Peri Joy planned for the work of her thesis year to center on race, religion, and the history of Oregon, and her writing focused on archives related to a 19th century congregation in Salem, Oregon led by Reverend Obed Dickinson. 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