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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Untold Stories: Featured Content for Black History Month
It goes almost without saying that many of the visitors who use BlackPast.org are concerned about social justice issues and often involve themselves locally with mentoring efforts for young people, particularly young African Americans. Let BlackPast.org assist your effort by introducing your mentees, from the elementary school to college level, to the depth and breadth of African American history, heritage, and achievement. We want to help your mentoring process build self-esteem among these young men and women, challenge stereotypes, and remind them of the accomplishments of thousands of people of African ancestry around the world and throughout human history. Listed below are pages that we think would be particularly valuable to share with the young people you are assisting.
The story of Orville and Wilbur Wright and their first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903 is known to millions around the world. What is not known is that they had a rival in African American inventor Charles Frederick Page. See Page’s remarkable story, written by historian Kelly McCoy.
