Newsletter out today! - Ways to get involved - Organizing kit - New swag on "All Rights for All" - Schedule for Feb 13 and later events douglassday.substack.com/p/douglass-d... Help us spread the word?

Save the date! Douglass Day 2026 "All Rights for All" Fri, February 13 Sign up today! DouglassDay.org Feat. the Colored Conventions Project! @ccp-org.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social

We are going to focus @douglassday.bsky.social in Feb 2026 on the Colored Conventions and their visions for citizenship. We need to tell a much fuller story about the 14th amendment. The history is crystal clear. The Constitution is crystal clear.

Save the date! Douglass Day 2026 "All Rights for All" Fri, February 13 Sign up today! DouglassDay.org Feat. the Colored Conventions Project! @ccp-org.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social

Did you hear? Douglass Day 2026 is on the way! Friday, February 13, 2026 Sign up today: DouglassDay.org Oh, and this year we are featuring a massive *new* trove of rediscovered documents from our friends at the @ccp-org.bsky.social! 🎂

College communications put together this lovely piece on #DouglassDay at Swarthmore, featuring the exhibit by @caitlinest.bsky.social. Pretty cool, right @douglassday.bsky.social #GLAM 📚 www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/...

We're hiring at the @digblk.bsky.social! Hiring a "Data Scientist" (very broadly defined) to collaborate on the @ccp-org.bsky.social, @douglassday.bsky.social & emerging work on Black archives & AI. Can be remote! Info: bit.ly/cbdr-ds We're reviewing apps this month. Help us spread the word?

Unfortunately @zooniverse.bsky.social is still down, and may be that way all of today. status.zooniverse.org If you're looking for something to #transcribe, may I suggest helping the @douglassday.bsky.social folks get through the rest of their LoC data at crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/af...?

Hosted a #DouglassDay transcription event today, working with digitized materials at the Library of Congress. Here's a great example: an abolitionist songbook! #slaveryarchive crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/af...

Should we host a 14th amendment symposium on #DouglassDay and then transcribe NAACP and LDF papers with LOC and @douglassday.bsky.social? What do folks think?

Discover connections between Frederick Douglass & Cork when using a book as object approach & focusing on paratextual & textual elements: “Examining a Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” libguides.ucc.ie/displayingha... #DouglassDay @theriversideucc.bsky.social @ucclibrary.bsky.social

#DouglassDay Someone asked for the cake recipes, so here's mine: 1 brownie mix (I use Ghirardelli) 6oz fizzy root beer 1 t cinnamon 1 t ginger 1/2 t cloves 1/4 t mace bake at 350F until cupcake-ish.

Celebrating #DouglassDay in the Abolition Lab at Knox today! We had a great time transcribing and tuning into the virtual programming! And of course, there were plenty of snacks 🎊🥳🎊

This is what an award winning cake looks like! #douglassday

Was thrilled to participate in a record-breaking #douglassday! "If there is no struggle, there is no progress"

Look who was one of the winners of the #DouglassDay cake competition! @drericaoneil.bsky.social

📣 Douglass Day Update! We've hit 686 pages with 476 in progress, even and more to review & cite! Although this is the end of our Douglass Day celebration, please keep the momentum going by transcribing at crowd.loc.gov. Every contribution helps to make history! #DouglassDay2025 #Youmakehistory

So many people are participating in the #DouglassDay transcription project that the servers are crashing! It's so great.

Happy birthday, Frederick Douglass!!! I baked you a cake! The DH team at ASU's Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics is enjoyjng some chocolate cherry deliciousness as we transcribe Black historical documents for #DouglassDay2025! #DouglassDay joy!

DCD at Coastal Carolina checking in for #DouglassDay! cc: @douglassday.bsky.social

What does Douglass Day mean to Tonika Berkley? #DouglassDay

Stop what you are doing and look at this cake that @drericaoneil.bsky.social made for #DouglassDay2025 #DouglassDay

The cake has arrived!! Happy birthday Frederick Douglass! Cake designed and baked and decorated by the talented and amazing @drericaoneil.bsky.social! #DouglassDay #DouglassDay2025

Happy #DouglassDay!! This is my favorite celebration, and I always find time to transcribe a little bit. Right now, the webpage is crashed, but this is a whole day event so I’m patiently and eagerly waiting for it to work again♥️

Penn State Hazleton enjoying library-based Douglass Day afternoon with baked goods, pizza, crafts, nice people, Student and faculty transcribers. Thanks to Lilly Fitt and PSU Libraries! #DouglassDay

Our #DouglassDay event this year is the best attended yet, despite competing with the Eagles Parade.

#Douglassday: F. Douglass, 1855: “Children have their sorrows as well as men and women, and it would be well to remember this in our dealings with them. Slave-children are children, and prove no exceptions to the general rule.”

Photograph of Sojourner Truth with caption: I sell the shadow to support the substance. #DouglassDay At the Newberry Library

Looking like Library of Congress is almost up and running again! Stay tuned!

You can transcribe documents on crowd.loc.gov any time, not only today, so check back later when the site is hopefully back up.

Broadside with title The Black Law Champion printed in 1854. #DouglassDay collection presentation at Newberry Library

#DouglassDay celebration at Westfield State University!

"we still linger in the blight of an extinct institution" - dramatic reading #DouglassDay of Frederick Douglass giving his speech "Why hold a colored convention". Mmm-hmmm!

Working on transcriptions for #DouglassDay, but for anyone having issues w/the Library of Congress site, this collection from the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian can be a place to direct energy! transcription.si.edu/project/59479 #MSUDH @dhmsu.bsky.social

Just heard that LOC should be back! And just learned that this has been a record-breaking #Douglassday with over 600 pages transcribed so far

#DouglassDay is so inspiring. Thank you @douglassday.bsky.social organizers!

Taking a turn as room watcher for #DouglassDay collection presentation so our curator can attend demo re: Newberry Library’s soon-to-be re-launched Transcribe site.

Collection presentation #DouglassDay

Celebrating Frederick Douglass at the Hopewell Branch today @mclsnj.bsky.social Attempting to transcribe African American Perspectives in Print for @libraryofcongress.bsky.social but the crowd is breaking the website ! So we’ll eat cake and think about his amazing legacy. @DouglassDay.bsky.social

Our Archivist at Swarthmore @caitlinest.bsky.social created this incredible exhibit in conjunction with #DouglassDay @douglassday.bsky.social featuring items from the Friends Historical Library titled “Printing the Underground Railroad.”

This is an incredible event going on today - talks and volunteer transcription to celebrate Frederick Douglass' birthday

Happy #DouglassDay! We’re holding a transcribe-a-thon until 3 pm today at Tisch Library. Drop in for some or all of it!! More info at tischlibrary.tufts.edu/node/3379 @dh-at-tufts.bsky.social

Also aMAZing food from taste of Africa #DouglassDay

#douglassDay cake entry

Nineteenth C Black Literature at Rutgers present for #DouglassDay. Bit of a server slow down at LOC, so we’re taking a cake break 😁

Happy #DouglassDay! Although the Library of Congress' website has temporarily crashed, it's a great day to volunteer your time to transcribe historical documents related to African-American history! Celebrating Frederick Douglass' birthday in this way is rewarding and important!

Due to the high volume of participants this Douglass Day, the Library of Congress website is experiencing issues. To mitigate this, please avoid using the “Jump to” transcription link and instead navigate directly through your web browser. Thank you for your patience! #DouglassDay2025