Dr. Quintard Taylor, a renowned historian specializing in African American history, has passed away at the age of 76.
Taylor was a leading voice in the documentation and promotion of Black history. The educator also foundedBlackPast.org, a platform deemed the “world’s largest online encyclopedia” for the subject.
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Born in Brownsville, Tennessee, Taylor spent his lifetime in academia, writing novels that centered on the Black American experience. The seasoned professor wrote several acclaimed works, including the Pulitzer Prize-nominated “Search for the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528–1990” and “The Forging of a Black Community: A History of Seattle’s Central District, 1870 through the Civil Rights Era.”…