Dr. Quintard Taylor and BlackPast.org!
Posted on 26. Jun, 2009 by Leshell Hatley in Academia News, Faculty, I'm a Full Professor!, Industry News, News, PhD, Scholarly Celebrations
Screen capture of Blackpast.org
This weekend BSI’s Founder visits Google, the powerhouse of all things data-related, for winning the Google Anita Borg Scholarship. For this reason, we’d like to highlight a website that features all things related to data about Black history – http://www.blackpast.org – and the Black Scholar who created it, Quintard Taylor, the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History at the University of Washington. Here’s a description of this resource from its website:
Dr. Quintard Taylor, creator of BlackPast.org
BlackPast.org, an online reference center makes available a wealth of materials on African American history in one central location on the Internet. These materials include an online encyclopedia of over 1,500 entries, the complete transcript of over 125 speeches given between 1789 and 2008, over 100 full text primary documents, bibliographies, timelines and four gateway pages with links to 50 digital archive collections. Additionally 75 major African American museums and research centers and over 400 other website resources on black history are also linked to the website. The compilation and concentration of these diverse resources allows BlackPast.org to serve as the “Google” of African American history.
Blackpast.org has dozens of contributors and has an extensive historical progression of its existence. Check out more about this amazing resource (and it’s specific tribute to Michael Jackson today).
RIP Michael Jackson! May your memory inspire many Black Scholars of the future to dance in the middle of their studies!
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