Quintard Taylor (born December 11, 1948) is a historian, founder of BlackPast.org, an online encyclopedia dedicated to provide public with information concerning African-American history,[1] and former professor of University of Washington.

[1][6] While working as a teacher at the Washington State University, he married Carolyn,[7] and he had three children: Quintard III, and twins, William and Jamila.

[8][6] Apart from his research articles, he published several books and articles, including The Forging of a Black Community: A History of Seattle's Central District, The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era, In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528–1990.

[9][10] Taylor graduated from Carver High School in Brownsville, Tennessee.

[1][4] In the 1960s, there were changes in West Tennessee initiated by the civil rights movement which attracted him to study history.

education, at the age of 16, in St. Augustine's College, North Carolina in American history and graduated in 1969.

degree in the University of Minnesota which later proved to be a factor for Taylor to search the new curriculum of African American history study.