ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the history of adoption practices for children of color at the boys and girls aid society of Oregon. Research utilizing the casefiles and archives of the agency revealed that during the study period, 466 children of color were placed with adoptive parents of the same race or of a different race. The children included Asian Americans, Native Americans, and African Americans. The renewed efforts to find more adoptive homes for children of color were successful, but, in contrast to the results of “Operation Brown Baby,” only the number of African American placements increased. “Operation Brown Baby,” the successful 1957 recruitment campaign, resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of new African American adoptive homes. In 1972, E. R. Stimmel noted that “outstanding champions of the rights of black people, like Whitney Young and countless, others strongly supported the development of interracial adoption from its very beginning.
