Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

BlackPast is dedicated to providing reliable information on the history of Black people across the globe, and especially in North America. Our goal is to promote greater understanding of our common human experience through knowledge of the diversity of the Black experience and the ubiquity of the global Black presence. Welcome to the largest online encyclopedia on African American and Global African history on the Internet.

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The Katz Drug Store Sit-Ins (1958)

The Dockum Drug Store Sit-Ins (1958)

Lewis A. Jackson (1912-1994)

Janie Porter Barrett (1865-1948)

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