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A Black-owned barbershop is added to the National Register of Historic Places

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In Portland, Ore., a black-owned barbershop is celebrating its place on the National Register of Historic Places. The addition is part of a larger effort to recognize and protect Black history.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

A barbershop in Portland, Ore., has made the cut. That's what it says here. It's on the National Register of Historic Places. And Katia Riddle² tells us why.

KATIA RIDDLE, BYLINE³: The story of Dean's Barber Shop and Beauty Salon⁴ begins in 1944. That's when a young, married couple set out from Birmingham, Ala., with their three children for a new life.

KIMBERLY BROWN: It was a big, big chance they were taking.

RIDDLE: Kimberly Brown is their granddaughter. Her grandparents were part of the Great Migration⁵. They left the South, along with millions of other Black people. Brown says it was a brave choice.

BROWN: But what were they leaving - I mean, you know, sharecropping and Jim Crow and all the horrible things that our ancestors have lived under. It was the chance that they had to take.

RIDDLE: It's like it was a kind of a moment of collective hope.

BROWN: Absolutely. Absolutely. Like, there has to be something better.

RIDDLE: Brown says her grandparents' new life was better. They landed in Oregon. It wasn't an obvious choice. Not that many years previous, the state didn't even allow Black people to live here. But the small number of Black residents made for a close community. Her grandparents bought a house in the heart of that community. Brown stands in front of that same house on this day.

BROWN: Ms. Lucille (ph) lived there.

RIDDLE: The family doesn't own it anymore.

BROWN: So it was a all-Black neighborhood when I was growing up. Everybody around here was Black.

RIDDLE: And now?

BROWN: Everybody around here is white (laughter).

RIDDLE: Gentrification and redlining has displaced much of the Black community. But one thing that is still here, the barber shop that Brown's grandparents started. She now owns and runs it.

BROWN: My grandmother's station was in that corner.

RIDDLE: Kimberly Brown is a third-generation hairstylist. Her mom's old chair is behind her.

BROWN: I'll tell customers who've been here a long time, like, go to my mom's chair. And they know what chair I'm talking about.

RIDDLE: Much of the neighborhood has moved away, says Brown. But the shop is a refuge.

BROWN: It's a really - community space, you know? Even if you don't come anymore, you still feel welcome. You still come in and hang out in the shop. You don't have to get your hair done. You can just come and kick it.

RIDDLE: Many things happen here besides hair?

BROWN: Absolutely. Absolutely. Hair is one - is probably the least of the things that happens in here.

BRANDON SPENCER-HARTLE: The intangible story of resilience and continuity over time of a legacy⁶ business like Dean's Barber Shop is really the next frontier of how we deploy⁷ historic preservation⁸ resources.

RIDDLE: Brandon Spencer-Hartle is a city planner in Portland. He helped to place the shop on the National Register. He says it's part of a larger effort in cities across the country to reshape the criteria⁹ for this designation.

SPENCER-HARTLE: It's not just about the buildings you can see from the sidewalk, but about the people who have occupied them.

RIDDLE: Unlike many buildings on the National Historic Register, this one is living history. Noni Causey (ph) is visiting the shop on this day. She started coming here with her mom when she was 6.

NONI CAUSEY: The beauty shop and the barber shop is a place where young people came to learn how to be adults.

RIDDLE: Causey recalls spending hours listening to the older ladies sit and talk in the salon. She says they taught her some of her most important life lessons.

CAUSEY: Like how to have relationships that lasted forever, how to work through friendships, marriages. And because of that, I was married for, like, 29 years - 'til death do you part, right? But I only learned that because other women had done it.

RIDDLE: Causey says it's not just the women who come of age in Dean's Barber Shop and Beauty Salon. She has four sons. The shop provided them with role models, too. It's a place, she says, where a boy can see what it means to be a man.

For NPR News, I'm Katia Riddle in Portland, Ore.

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1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 riddle   

n.谜，谜语，粗筛；vt.解谜，给…出谜，筛，检查，鉴定，非难，充满于；vi.出谜

参考例句：

• The riddle couldn't be solved by the child.这个谜语孩子猜不出来。
• Her disappearance is a complete riddle.她的失踪完全是一个谜。

3 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

4 salon   

n.[法]沙龙；客厅；营业性的高级服务室

参考例句：

• Do you go to the hairdresser or beauty salon more than twice a week?你每周去美容院或美容沙龙多过两次吗？
• You can hear a lot of dirt at a salon.你在沙龙上会听到很多流言蜚语。

5 migration   

n.迁移，移居，（鸟类等的）迁徙

参考例句：

• Swallows begin their migration south in autumn.燕子在秋季开始向南方迁移。
• He described the vernal migration of birds in detail.他详细地描述了鸟的春季移居。

6 legacy   

n.遗产，遗赠；先人(或过去)留下的东西

参考例句：

• They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
• He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。

7 deploy   

v.（军）散开成战斗队形，布置，展开

参考例句：

• The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
• The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。

8 preservation   

n.保护，维护，保存，保留，保持

参考例句：

• The police are responsible for the preservation of law and order.警察负责维持法律与秩序。
• The picture is in an excellent state of preservation.这幅画保存得极为完好。

9 criteria   

n.标准

参考例句：

• The main criterion is value for money.主要的标准是钱要用得划算。
• There are strict criteria for inclusion in the competition.参赛的标准很严格。