Douglass Day is an annual event centered around crowd-sourcing transcription efforts to increase access to online collections of Black history and culture. Named in honor of Frederick Douglass and held every year on or around his birthday, February 14, Douglass Day has its roots in Black History Month and was revived in 2017 by the team behind the Colored Conventions Project at the University of Delaware, with the goal of creating new digital resources for African American history that are free and open-access. Since 2020, Douglass Day has been an independent sister project focused on both transcribe-a-thon activities as well as helping instructors incorporate digital collections related to Black history and culture into their classrooms.
The Colored Conventions Project (CCP) – an interdisciplinary research hub that uses digital tools to uncover the history of 19th-century Black organizing – will again partner with Douglass Day on February 13, 2026. Transcription activities will use Zooniverse and focus on CCP materials.
Read more about Douglass Day 2026 and register online to participate. Registrants will receive further information from organizers as they count down to the February 2026 event!
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