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Happy 200 Birthday Frederick Douglass! Freedmen’s Bureau Records Transcribe-a-thon Wednesday Feb 14, 2018 Reading of Douglass Texts Douglass Circle at Monroe Lecture Hall 11:30am Transcribe-a-thon of Freedmen’s Bureau Records Axinn Library 12-3pm All are welcome!
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The Digital Research Center at Hofstra University The Axinn Library The Center for “Race”, Culture, and Social Justice The National Museum of African American History and Culture
Smithsonian Transcription Center
For more info: ColoredConventions.org/hbd
Colored Conventions Project
Douglass Day Schedule February 14, 2018 11:30am – 3:00pm Visit http://coloredconventions.org/hbd for more details. Please RSVP to Keri Crocco at keri.crocco@hofstra.edu if you plan to bring a class to the event.
Start Time
Step
People
11:30
Readings at Douglass Circle, Monroe Lecture Hall
John Bryant, Hofstra University
11:30
Start live streaming video. facebook.com/ColoredConventionsProject
All groups please try to connect before noon.
12:00
Welcome to the Transcribe-a-thon!
Denise Burgher, Anna Lacy, & Allison Robinson (DE)
Blessing & “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
Rev. Deacon Cecily Sawyer Harmon (DE) & Everyone
12:05
The Colored Conventions Movement, in the 19th and 21st centuries, and the Freedmen’s Bureau
P. Gabrielle Foreman (DE) & Kamilah Stinnett (DC)
12:15
A History of Douglass Day Celebrations
Jim Casey (NJ)
12:20
How to transcribe the Freedmen’s Bureau
Andres Almeida & Doug Remley (DC)
12:30
Time for transcribing (45 mins)
Everyone
1:15
A reading from an 1876 speech by Douglass
Don Blakey (DE)
1:30
Time for transcribing (45 mins)
Everyone
2:15
History of the Freedmen’s Bureau
Hollis Gentry (DC)
2:25
Sing “Happy Birthday” and cut the cake
Everyone (lead by Clay Colmon)
2:30
Time for sharing.
Everyone
2:40
Closing discussion.
Everyone (lead by DC & DE)
3:00
Live stream ends