Douglass Day event February 13

Please join the English Department for the Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon on Friday February 13! Come by the Multi-Purpose Room (Campus Center West) at any time between 12 and 3pm. All you need is your personal laptop or tablet!

Each year, thousands of students across the country gather on Frederick Douglass's birthday to help create new available resources for learning about Black history. We will gather to work side-by-side on a crowdsourcing transcription project. This year we are going to transcribe a new collection of records that shows the role of Black communities in organizing and agitating across the century. Together we can transcribe these records and make them more accessible to the public. Help us document the ways that African American communities helped to imagine, pass, and protect all of our 14th Amendment Rights, including birthright citizenship, due process, and equal protection under the law for all persons.

You don't need to know how to transcribe; you'll learn when you arrive! It will be a fun, celebratory activity with cake and music! Come by any time!