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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Polly McLean is an associate professor of Media Studies in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin and has published a number of articles in scholarly and professional journals. McLean has taught at Howard University, the University of Zambia and the University of Namibia. She is currently working on a book about the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Colorado. | |||||
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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.