Save the date: Feb. 14, Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon 2024
Join us in celebrating Black history, research & archives
It's a party! Help us celebrate Frederick Douglass' birthday, also known as Douglass Day, an annual global transcribe-a-thon and a collective action for Black history.
Thousands of participants come together at more than one hundred simultaneous events around the world to transcribe materials of Black scholars and thinkers.
We will be transcribing Fredrick Douglass' correspondence, held by the Library of Congress. Douglass was a major an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
Transcribing will be done on crowd, a citizen science platform led by the Library of Congress. Douglass Day invites people from all backgrounds to join in this effort to make Douglass’s correspondence more widely accessible and searchable.
Details
- 10am to 1pm
- Main Library, Learning Studio B254 - CATalyst Studios
- Open to all
- Registration not required – just show up
Our co-sponsor
Special thanks to the African American Museum of Southern Arizona (AAMA) and Beverly Elliott, AAMA Executive Director, for their co-sponsorship.
Transcribing devices
We encourage that, if you bring a device, you can comfortably look at an image and type with it. We will also have some computers available.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
Frederick Douglass, (1818-1895), was an American abolitionist, social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman. Because he was born into bondage and never knew his birth date, Douglass chose to recognize it on February 14.
After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became the most important leader of the movement for African American Civil Rights in the 19th century. He is the author of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1882, revised 1891).