Strides for Social Justice launches fifth route Tuesday, April 27, 2021 4:07 PM More information is available at stridesforsocialjustice.org. EUGENE – Strides for Social Justice, an app developed by PeaceHealth and the Eugene Marathon that features tours through local Black history, has added a fifth route, one that shines a light on a painful and little-known chapter in the history of Eugene and Oregon. The three-mile-round-trip Skinner Butte begins in downtown Eugene, at 10th Avenue and Oak Street, then heads north to the top of 682-foot-tall Skinner Butte. Along the way, participants learn about exclusion laws that prohibited Blacks from owning property, residing in or even entering Oregon until 1926; the proliferation of Ku Klux Klan chapters here; and a 1924 Klan parade through downtown Eugene culminating in fireworks and a cross burning atop Skinner Butte that “cast a reddish glow over the town,” according to the daily newspaper report at the time.