title: From Timbuktu to Katrina: Sources in African-American History Volume 2
author: Quintard Taylor
description: QUINTARD TAYLOR, the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History at the University of Washington, is the author of over forty articles. His work on African American Western History, African American, African, Afro-Brazilian, and comparative ethnic history has appeared in the Western Historical Quarterly, Pacific Historical Review, Oregon Historical Quarterly, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Journal of Negro History, Arizona and the West, Western Journal of Black Studies, Polish-American Studies, and the Journal of Ethnic Studies, among other journals. Taylor is currently serving on the Board of Trustees of the Northwest African American Museum in Seattle and The Idaho Black History Museum in Boise as well as HistoryLink Interactive History Project in Seattle. He is a former member of the Washington State Historical Society and the Governing Council of the American Historical Association. Taylor was a founding board member of the Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas, and has served in various capacities for the Western History Association, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, and the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.
zlib_text: P E A C E  B E  S T I L L
  
  PEACE 
  BE STILL
  MODERN BLACK AMERICA FROM
  WORLD WAR II TO BARACK OBAMA
  MATTHEW C. WHITAKER
  University of Nebraska Press | Lincoln and London
  
  © 2013 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
  Portions of chap. 1 were previously published in the author’s 
  Race Work: Th e Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West (Lin-
  coln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 63–87. © 2005 by 
  the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska.
  Portions of chap. 6 were previously published in Hurricane 
  Katrina: America’s Unnatural Disaster, edited by Jeremy I. 
  Levitt and Matthew C. Whitaker (Lincoln: University of 
  Nebraska Press, 2009), 1–10. © 2009 by Jeremy I. Levitt and 
  Matthew C. Whitaker.
  All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of 
  America. 
  Publication of this volume was assisted by the Virginia 
  Faulkner Fund, established in memory of Virginia Faulkner, 
  editor in chief of the University of Nebraska Press.
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Pu