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This is a campus partner event held by the UA Libraries.
Help us celebrate Frederick Douglass's 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 100 simultaneous events around the world to transcribe materials of Black scholars and thinkers.
We will transcribe the African American Perspectives Collection held by the Library of Congress. This collection includes speeches, sermons, biographies, narratives, and records from the history of Black political activism–including writing and materials by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Booker T. Washington, William Still, Angelina Grimké Weld–and many more.
Transcribing will be done on By The People, a citizen science and crowdsourcing platform hosted by the Library of Congress. Douglass Day invites people from all backgrounds to join in this effort to make Black history more widely accessible and searchable.
Visit the event page to register and view more information about the UA Libraries Drop-In Events.