Join us to celebrate Frederick Douglass's birthday and Black literary history by transcribing the records of Black activist Mary Church Terrell to make them searchable, readable, and more accessible to the world.
Registration is requested, but not required: Drop in at the Zoom meeting, choose a letter or diary entry of Mary Church Terrell’s to transcribe, and get help when you need it. No experience needed. The transcribe-a-thon is open to members of the Hopkins community with Zoom accounts using JHU email addresses.
You're invited to a birthday party for Frederick Douglass! This year Douglass Day celebrates the life and activism of Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954), an educator, civil rights activist, and one of the leaders of the women's suffrage movement.
Together with other groups around the country, we will transcribe Terrell's papers using the By the People platform of the Library of Congress. Volunteer-created transcriptions of historical documents like these make them available to everyone—including people who are not fully sighted—for digital searching, analysis, and future research.
Although Frederick Douglass was born into bondage and never knew his birthdate, he chose February 14th as his day. We're celebrating Douglass Day on February 12th this year, taking time to preserve Black history together. To learn more about Douglass's birthday, read this previous blog post.
Douglass Day 2021 is presented by:
Center for Black Digital Research, Penn State
By the People, Library of Congress
Penn State University Libraries and the College of Liberal Arts
Sponsored locally by the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries
Questions? Contact Heather Furnas at hfurnas@jhu.edu