An Online Reference Guide to African American History
Quintard Taylor
Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History
University of Washington, Seattle
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Kimberley Mangun is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at The University of Utah. Her award-winning 2005 dissertation, Beatrice Morrow Cannady and The Advocate: Building and Defending Oregon’s African American Community, 1912-1933, focuses on Cannady’s efforts to draw attention to the need for equal rights and liberties in the state during the turbulent 1910s and 1920s. Mangun’s work is part of her ongoing research on the Black press, which includes rediscovering African American women journalists and their careers. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Society from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication. | |||||
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BlackPast.org is an independent non-profit corporation 501(c)(3). It has no affiliation with the University of Washington. BlackPast.org is supported in part by a grant from Humanities Washington, a state-wide non-profit organization supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the state of Washington, and contributions from individuals and foundations.