
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Feb 14 2025
- Time: 7:00 am - 8:00 am
Douglass Day 2025
Save the date: February 14 at 5pm London/12pm Boston/9am Oakland (virtual and in 360 Snell Library, Centers for Digital Scholarship, Boston campus)
Join the Digital Scholarship Group, Archives and Special Collections, the Women Writers Project, and the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences for a transcribe-a-thon in celebration of Douglass Day, an event honoring the life and birthday of Frederick Douglass. We are excited to celebrate Douglass Day this year as part of Black History Month and Love Data Week. No experience is needed.
Organized by The Colored Conventions Project in 2017, Douglass Day brings thousands of people together nationwide to contribute to crowdsourced projects that improve digital access to Black history and culture. Douglass Day 2025 will take on a larger breadth of materials, focusing on the African American Perspectives Collection at the Library of Congress. Materials you can look forward to transcribing include speeches, sermons, biographies, narratives, and records from Frederick Douglass, William Still, Angelina Grimké Weld, and other activists. Explore the collection ahead of the event or jump in during the transcribe-a-thon.
This event will be hybrid: please join us in-person in 360 Snell Library (Centers for Digital Scholarship, Boston campus) or online via Zoom. Please bring a laptop or tablet if you are joining us in person.
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 14.
Douglass Day is made possible by a large number of past and present partners and supporters. They 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, and the PSU College of Liberal Arts, the American Studies Association for a Community Partnership Grant, Zooniverse, and By The People at the Library of Congress.
We hope to see you there!
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Submit your registration at our RSVP form.
Douglass Day is part of Love Data Week 2025.