Monday, August 16, 2010

BlackPast.org, Founded by Dr. Quintard Taylor, is '4,000 Page Reference Center'


[Dr. Quintard Taylor, Founder of BlackPast.org]

BlackPast.org has just added AfriClassical to its Blog Roll. AfriClassical has returned the favor by adding BlackPast.org to its Favorite Blog list. AfriClassical considers this exchange significant because of the importance of this exceptional online Black History resource, and because we have contributed several extracts from biographies at AfriClassical.com. In our opinion, BlackPast.org is unique in its scope and authoritative character. It was founded by Dr. Quintard Taylor, the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History at The University of Washington, Seattle:

“Welcome to the BlackPast.org website. This 4,000 page reference center is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history in the United States and on the history of the more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world. It includes an online encyclopedia of hundreds of famous and lesser known figures in African American history, Global African history and specifically the history of African Americans in the West. BlackPast.org also has full text primary documents and major speeches of black activists and leaders from the 18th Century to the present. There are links to hundreds of websites that address the global history of people of African ancestry including major black museums and archival research centers in the United States and Canada.”

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