Join the Centers for Digital Scholarship, the Digital Scholarship Group, Archives and Special Collections, the Women Writers Project, and the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences on February 13th, 2025, at 12pm Boston / 5pm London / 9am Oakland, 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.

This year's event will have two concurrent opportunities to participate. Join us in-person in the Centers for Digital Scholarship (Snell Library, third floor) or join on Zoom. This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Submit your registration at our RSVP form.

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. In 2026, Douglass Day's theme is “All Rights for All: Equality and the Colored Conventions Movement.” The day will focus on struggles for citizenship, equality, and belonging in the Colored Conventions. We want to reconsider how far we have come and where we want to go. The Colored Conventions include rich, historical documents and debates that speak directly to our fight today to secure and preserve our citizenship and civil rights.