W. Paul Coates is the founder and director of Black Classic
Press, which specializes in republishing obscure and significant works by and
about people of African descent. A leader in the field of small publishers,
Coates founded BCP Digital Printing in 1995 to produce books and documents using
digital print technology.
Coates formerly served as an African American Studies reference and acquisition
librarian at
Howard
Universitys Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. He is a graduate of
Clark Atlanta University (M.S.L.S.), and
Sojourner-Douglass College. A former member
and Maryland State coordinator of The
Black Panther Party, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Black
Panther Party Archives at Howard University.
Coates is co-editor of
Black Bibliophiles and Collectors: Preservers of Black History (Howard
University Press, 1990). He formerly owned and operated The Black Book (1972
1978), a Baltimore based bookstore. His experience with the purchase, sale and
collection, and publishing of books by and about Blacks is a love affair that
has continued for more than three decades.
Related Links
Black Classic Press books on AALBC.com
http://aalbc.com/writers/blackclassic.htm
Biographical Statement, sourced from
http://www.blackclassic.com/coates.html on May 28, 2006
Photo, AALBC.com, LLC, taken May 19th 2006 at the African American Pavilion at
Book Expo America
