Thank you @zooniverse.bsky.social team for making sure that the “force of nature” (@jimccasey1.bsky.social) #DouglassDay is possible despite server overload issues. 8,000+ participants is so amazing!
Douglass was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century! Here he is in images with others. We love seeing this for #DouglassDay! @douglassday.bsky.social!
Resolved, That the colored voters of this State do not consider themselves under eternal obligations to a party which favors us as a class only in proportion as it is driven by its own necessity.
#DouglassDay transcribing...this resolution still feels apt in 2026!
Live from Oklahoma! #douglassday
Images of Frederick Douglass on display in the 360 room of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Main Library at MSU! #DouglassDay
Khadijah, A young volunteer helping bring Douglass Day to life. She’s 14 already dreaming about college and giving back to her community.This is what early access& representation look like
@douglassday.bsky.social @ccp-org.bsky.social
#DouglassDay #AllRightsForAll #FutureLeaders #blackexcellence
All rights for all buttons
The fourteenth amendment is such a critically important topic for #DouglassDay this year.
A librarian stands in front of large screen that displays digitized Black history material while a room full of event attendees look on.
Big news for #DouglassDay! We officially unveiled a stunning new gallery of Black History materials in Newberry Digital Collections at our event! From our stacks to your screen—check out the new gallery today:
📍 publications.newberry.org/gallery/?g=2...
Plush Frederick Douglass and bouquet of flowers for Douglass Day event
In the learning lab transcribing with Frederick Douglass and friends.
Text from State Convention of Colored Men highlighting that All Governments derive their power from the consent of the governed.
@douglassday.bsky.social Reporting from Mary Church Terrell Main Library at Oberlin #DouglassDay
Happy #DouglassDay from Montana State University!
Amazing! Waving back!
Douglass Day Cake
Transcription in process
Door with Douglass Day flyer
Douglass Day Celebration playlist
Happy Douglass Day! It was a great time participating in the national transcribe-a-thon with a bunch of my students at the Trinity #Douglassday events. Loved the @douglassday.bsky.social playlist and seeing the amazing cake from a local baker!
People transcribing. “Blues at Sunrise” by Albert King on the projector.
If you’re looking for Spotify alternatives, at Tisch Library, we’re streaming our own playlist from the music online database. #DouglassDay
Cake decorated with pink, red and white roses with the words All Rights for All.
Our #DouglassDay cake by Elisa's Cake by the #Pound is gorgeous and delicious!
Participants at Douglass Day Transcribing event sitting at tables, with laptops, at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Today we're celebrating #DouglassDay with @douglassday.bsky.social, students from Loyola Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, and volunteers around the world. You could hear a pin-drop in the room during the powerful reading of “Why Hold a Colored Convention?” by Hassan El-Amin.
The snacks table at our event
Books were raffling off
A picture of one of our transcriptions
All people chiming in from all over the world!!
We LOVE @douglassday.bsky.social #douglassday at Kenyon College #kenyon!! Transcription! Cake! Books to raffle off! What could be more awesome? So excited to see Minnesota, PA, Texas, and more of our students’ home states in the docs!
Kristen Mapes (Interim Director of Digital Humanities) and Justin Wadland (Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab) are cutting and distributing cake for Douglass Day.
@kmapesy.bsky.social and Justin Wadland cutting the cake for #DouglassDay in the Digital Scholarship Lab of the MSU Main Library!
first subject set complete! #DouglassDay
Newspaper clipping in zooniverse. Reads: and others. Mr. Conrad's frequent cries for "lubricating oil" brought the greenbacks but slowly yet we think the people of Cincinnati supported the Convention.
No context #DouglassDay snippet.
We have a vegan chocolate cake too, but I feel like we're falling down here compared to some of you overachievers. It tastes good though. 😍 #DouglassDay
Groups of people at three tables transcribing on their laptops.
Great to see a core group of people turn out early on a Friday to help transcribe documents related to the Colored Conventions for this year's Douglass Day Transcribe-a-Thon in the Marymount Institute at LMU. #DouglassDay
(photo posted with permission of participants)
Making progress on transcription and exploring special collections at Swarthmore’s @douglassday.bsky.social #DouglassDay
5. Moulin Rouge photo
6. Welfare Rights Protest in Vegas
7. Tupac and Afeni Shakur
8. Douglass Day Cake 2023
Notice also the facade of the church that hosted that first Colored Convention. Happy #DouglassDay Everyone!
Celebrating the First Colored Conventions in the West with our
@douglassday.bsky.social cake for @unlv.edu's annal celebration. The time line includes:
1. Pio Pico: Last Governor of California in Mexico
2. Buffalo Soldiers
3. Mary Ellen Pleasant
4. Harlem Renaissance Band
GOTV table
Buttons and cookies
Also at Swarthmore, our Get Out the Vote is registering voters, our Makerspace laser cut cookies, and our Outreach Librarian made buttons for @douglassday.bsky.social #DouglassDay
Ho @douglassday.bsky.social this is @unlv.edu here at UNLV Libraries with a cake from Cake Designs Las Vegas featuring the cover page of the first Colored Convention in the West & a timeline of Black American History of the West…ending with our award winning cake from 2024!
A giant pile of dough and whipped cream on a cake plate, liberally dusted in powdered sugar.
Happy Douglass Day to all who celebrate! our cake this year is a karpatka: a choux dough filled with bourbon pastry cream, cherry rosemary compote, and a layer of dark chocolate ganache. Brandy snaps around the edge spell out “happy bday!”. #DouglassDay @douglassday.bsky.social
#DouglassDay The beautiful cake in honor of Transcribe 2026 for Douglass Day at USM (university of southern Mississippi) @douglassday.bsky.social
A white frosted cake decorated with balloons, sprinkles, and text reading Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass
Two Black women students transcribe a document together while eating cake
Nine students sit in a classroom working on transcriptions
Several students work on transcriptions together, fortified by cake
Thanks to everyone who joined us for #DouglassDay! As of this evening, over 1000 pages have been transcribed by over 800 volunteers. We’re so glad our students and faculty got to contribute to that number! Enjoy these photos of the celebration. #DouglassDay2024
A pink post-it that reads: “I was wild to think that I am transcribing words that were written by people living so long ago”
A blue post-it that reads: “This was a really good experience. It was challenging but in a good way!”
An orange post-it that reads: “it’s like Wheel of Fortune on expert mode! (Still had a great time)”
An orange post-it that reads: “I had a great time! Although the writings are hard to figure out it is a fun challenge. It is also cool to see the difference in language.”
And here are a few of the reflections our participants had after transcribing! #DouglassDay #DouglassDay2024
