Douglass Day 2026
Schedule
Fri Feb 13 2026 at 12:00 pm to 03:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
2200 Fairmount Ave, Atlantic City, NJ, United States, New Jersey 08401 | Atlantic City, NJ
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Celebrate Douglass Day on Friday, February 13 from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. with a transcribe-a-thon in honor of the birthday of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895). Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP, limited seats available.Use one of our provided iPads for this project, or bring your own laptop or iPad to this event!
Address:
Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University
2200 Fairmount Avenue, Atlantic City, NJ 08401
About the global Douglass Day transcribe-a-thon:
The transcribe-a-thon will bring together thousands of participants at more than one hundred simultaneous events around the world. Students, teachers, and community members will help to create new and freely available resources for learning about Black history.
The Douglass Day transcribe-a-thon will be held on February 13, 2026 from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m (Eastern) and will be streamed live on YouTube. The transcribing will be done on Crowd.loc.gov, a citizen science platform led by the the Library of Congress. Douglass Day invites people from all backgrounds to join in this effort to make Douglass’s correspondence more widely accessible and searchable.
https://douglassday.org/
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Where is it happening?
2200 Fairmount Ave, Atlantic City, NJ, United States, New Jersey 08401Event Location & Nearby Stays:
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