Bill Poehler is an award-winning investigative journalist based in the northwest, where he has worked as a reporter for the Statesman Journal for twenty-one years. His work has appeared in the Oregonian, the Eugene Register-Guard and the Corvallis Gazette-Times, and online at OPB.org and KGW.com. He lives in Salem, Oregon.
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The powers-that-be in auto racing in the 1920s, namely the American Automobile Association's Contest Board, prohibited everyone who wasn't a white male from the sport. Dewey Gaston, a black man who went by the name Rajo Jack, broke into the epicenter of r... SEE MORE