Welcome to Douglass Day 2022!
Watch the Feb 14 Broadcast on YouTube
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Congratulations to everyone who joined in this collective action for Black history!
Happy Douglass Day!
On Valentine’s Day 2022, we are throwing a birthday party for Frederick Douglass. All are invited!
Although Douglass never knew his birth date, he chose to celebrate every year on February 14th. We mark this day as a collective act of service & celebration of Black history.
Join us to transcribe, explore, and teach the records of the Colored Conventions, the longest civil rights movement of the 1800s. Help us enrich these records to share with future generations!
Quick Links
- Visit this year’s project on Zooniverse
- Learn how to get started on Transcribe Colored Conventions
- Twitter: @DouglassDayorg and #DouglassDay
Activities
Schedule – February 14 from 12-3 PM (EST)
The livestream program will be on our YouTube channel.
12:00 to 12:30pm – Live broadcast
- Welcome & introductions
- Blessing
- Sing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (lyrics)
- Overview for the Douglass Day program
- Speakers on Douglass Day & Women in the Colored Conventions
12:30 to 1:00pm – Activities
- Time for transcribing, readings, discussions, etc.
- During this time, we’ll leave the live stream running, but will go silent
- Try our Spotify playlist!
1:00 to 1:30pm – Live broadcast
- Sing “Happy birthday”
- “Why Hold a Colored Convention?” dramatic reading by Hassan El-Amin
1:30 to 2:00pm – Activities
- Time for transcribing, readings, discussions, etc.
- During this time, we’ll leave the live stream running, but will go silent
- Try our Spotify playlist!
2:00 to 2:15pm – Live broadcast
- Speakers on Black Women & the Colored Conventions, featuring Psyche Williams-Forson, Anna Lacy, and Samantha de Vera
2:15 to 2:45pm – Activities
- Time for transcribing, readings, discussions, etc.
- During this time, we’ll leave the live stream running, but will go silent
- Try our Spotify playlist!
2:45 to 3:00pm – Live broadcast
- Highlights from social media
- Bake Off winners
- Closing Reflections
- Announcement of Douglass Day 2023
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Great Douglass Day Bake Off
We can’t share cakes in person everywhere, but we can still share them all online! Make your best cakes & desserts and post them on Twitter or Instagram using #DouglassDay or #GreatDouglassDayBakeoff. You’ll be entered into the GDDBO contest – with special prizes for the crowd favorites! (Don’t use social media? Enter by sending a photo to us by email at douglassdayorg@gmail.com).
The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century
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Douglass Day 2022 is presented by
The Center for Black Digital Research (DigBlk) at the Pennsylvania State University along with the Penn State College of the Liberal Arts, the Penn State University Libraries, and our large collaborative team listed here.