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Working, churchgoing people in a community with a keen sense of history and purpose. Being that portland was not a very welcoming place for africanamericans in the 1940s and 50s. Community and family and books really shaped her imagination, her sense of the past and her sense of her future and she has achieved many things on behalf of others, she has been an advocate always for education, and she is probably best known as the first africanamerican woman elected the Oregon State Senate . 1996. Avel gordly was my state representative, my state senator, in northeast portland. So i knew her name and her face and her work as a citizen of portland in the 90s, and early 2000s, and in 2007, i was lobbying the state legislature on behalf of education, on behalf of higher education, and we were visiting around in salem and talking to legislators, and our last stop of our delegation was with senator gordly. She was to great champion of the cause of education and was we enjoyed tower conversation

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