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Annual Meeting
April 27, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm UTC-8
Arrive at 7:00 for a dessert buffet, coffee, and tea.
[learn_more caption=”Learn more about Dr. Taylor”] Dr. Taylor is a specialist in African American history in the American West with over four decades of research and teaching experience in this field at a number of institutions of higher education including currently the University of Washington. His interests continue to be driven by the desire to understand African American communities in a region which historically has not been identified with black history and culture. Understanding that history allows challenges to long held paradigms about both the history of the west as a region and the history of African America.
He is the director of BlackPast.org a 10,000 page website on African American and global African history. With an online encyclopedia of more than 3,000 entries written by more than 500 volunteers on six continents, as well as primary documents which include speeches, government reports, court decisions, treaties, nine timelines, and nine bibliographies with more than 5,000 entries.
Dr. Taylor is the author of The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District From 1870 through the Civil Rights Era and was the 2016 Denny Lecturer for the Museum of History and Industry.
For more information, please go to his website.[/learn_more]