This blog is a companion to BlackPast.org, and is another tool to explore and appreciate all the information on the website. The blog offers an opportunity to see how the reference material, insights, and opinions of the website can relate to other contexts. BlackPast.org has been a fulfilling experience and a labor of love of all the many volunteers and staff who have contributed. Even though the website relies heavily on the goodwill of its volunteers, cold, hard cash is still necessary to maintain and improve the site. Below is the Official BlackPast.org Fact Sheet, compiled by Quintard Taylor, the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History at the University of Washington, Seattle. I am hoping that once you have read through it, you will consider making a donation to this very valuable 501(c)3. Thanks.
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BlackPast.org (www.blackpast.org), founded
on February 1, 2007, is broadly conceived to provide reference information on people
of African ancestry in the United States and around the world. BlackPast.org is
supported by a volunteer staff of twelve and nearly 500 volunteer contributors
from six continents. The website has
more than 10,000 pages and is free and ungated.
New features are added regularly.
BlackPast.org includes:
1) An
online encyclopedia featuring nearly 3,000 entries which describe people,
places and events in African American History, African American History in the West, and global African history.
2) The
complete text of more than 300 speeches by African Americans and other people
of African ancestry from 1789 to 2009.
3) More
than 120 full text Primary Documents—court decisions, laws, organizational
statements, treaties, government reports and executive orders.
4) Nine
major timelines that show the history of people of African ancestry from five
million B.C.E. to today.
5) Nine
bibliographies listing more than 5,000 major books categorized by author,
title, subject, and date of publication.
6) Six
“Gateway” Pages with links to digital archive collections, African and African
American museums and research centers, genealogical research websites and more
than 200 other website resources on African American History, African American History in the West, and global African history.
7) Perspectives Online Magazine which
features commentary of important but little known events in black history often
written by the individuals who participated in or witnessed them. To date more than 100 articles have appeared.
8) Special
Features include The Blog Roll, TheBarack Obama Page, Major Black Officeholders since 1641, The Black
National Anthem, 101 African American Firsts, the LGBTQ page, By the Numbers and links to all of the major newspapers, magazines, and
journals of African America, Africa, and the West Indies.
BlackPast.org Website Statistics:
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Total Visits for
2007 (First year)
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455,963
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Total Visits for 2009
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1,982,442
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Total Visits for
2011
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2,870,568
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