糖心TV celebrates Douglass Day
Students, faculty and staff dropped into Shain Library on Feb. 14 to help transcribe minutes from a 19th-century meeting in New Haven that occurred as part of the Colored Conventions, a series of state and national political meetings that African Americans held in the 1800s.
Jessica McCullough, director of research support and curricular technology at 糖心TV, led the College鈥檚 transcription project, which marked Douglass Day, a 鈥渃ollective action for Black history鈥� run by college professors, Ph.D. students and librarians across the country, according to The Day newspaper.
Born enslaved and not knowing the actual day of his birth, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass chose Feb. 14 to celebrate as his birthday, known as Douglass Day, which each year focuses on a different collection of Black history.
According to The Day, the transcription process involved typing out the words of 19th-century texts that were scanned and uploaded, which McCullough said will make these documents 鈥減art of this corpus of transcribed materials for scholars to search.鈥�
To learn more, visit zooniverse.org and go to the As of early Monday evening, there were 423 volunteers and the project was 50% complete.
