NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks

Douglass Day 2021

February 12th, 12–1pm

Dear all,

Please join the Digital Scholarship Group, the Women Writers Project, and the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks in our remote celebration of Douglass Day, an event honoring the life and birthday of Frederick Douglass on February 12th from 12:00PM to 1:00PM EST. At this event, we will be transcribing the papers of Mary Church Terrell, an educator, women’s rights advocate, and civil rights activist, using the Library of Congress’s By the People platform. After a brief welcome and introduction, we will split into smaller groups for the transcriptions.

Our Douglass Day celebration is free and open to the public. No previous experience is necessary.

This event will be hosted remotely and registration is required: please RSVP here. Please note, when you register for this event you will receive a Zoom link in an attachment on the confirmation email, not in the email body itself.

This event connects with the national Douglass Day, an annual celebration organized, in part, by The Colored Conventions Project, with local events happening across the country on February 12 and 14. Past and present supporters of Douglass Day include: the Center for Black Digital Research at Penn State, the Colored Conventions Project, the Anna Julia Cooper Digital Project, the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University, the Princeton University Center for Digital Humanities, the PSU LIbraries, the PSU Center for Humanities and Information, the PSU College of Liberal Arts, the American Studies Association for a Community Partnership Grant, and Zooniverse.

If you have questions, please contact [log in to unmask].

Please also feel free to share this information with anyone who may be interested.

Kind regards,

Julianna Wessels
NULab Co-coordinator