AC JosepH Media

ATLANTIC CITYStockton University’s Stories of Atlantic City will be participating in a Frederick Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon on Feb 14 in recognition of the historic abolitionist leader.

“In celebration of Frederick Douglass, we will be taking part in a worldwide transcribe-a-thon where teachers, students, and community members will type and digitize documents and correspondence left by Frederick Douglass,” Stories of Atlantic City said in a statement.

The transcribe-a-thon will bring together thousands of participants at more than 100 simultaneous events around the world, and will be done on Crowd.loc.gov, a citizen science platform led by the Library of Congress.

Stories of Atlantic City will host a lunch and transcription on the Galloway and Atlantic City campuses from noon-3 p.m.

Participants can RSVP at one of the following links.  

– OspreyHUB page for student registration 

– Community Registration 

– Facebook Event Page 

General admission can be found at the Zeffy event page.

For more information, check out www.DouglassDay.org.


Follow Us Today On:

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

LinkedIn

Note from AC JosepH Media: If you like this story and others posted on Front Runner New Jersey.com, lend us a hand so we can keep producing articles like these for New Jersey and the world to see. Click on SUPPORT FRNJ and make a contribution that will go directly in making more stories like this available. Thank you for reading.

About Author

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *