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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Deirdre O'Connell is an Australian-born broadcaster with a passion for history. A graduate in Communications at Sydney's University of Technology, she has written, edited and produced over thirty programs for the United Nations and the BBC with London's Television for the Environment (TVE). She was the Archive Producer on a feature length documentary on the life of Jimi Hendrix for the Hendrix Estate. 2009 saw the release of The Ballad of Blind Tom, her biography on the nineteenth slave pianist and autistic savant, Blind Tom Wiggins. Now based in Australia, she continues to produce programs on history, heritage and the arts. | |||||
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BlackPast.org is an independent non-profit corporation 501(c)(3). It has no affiliation with nor is it endorsed by 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.