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Howard University Black History Month Edit-a-Thon
Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC), in collaboration with Wikimedia DC, is organizing and hosting a daylong “Black History Month Edit-a-thon.” The goal of this special Edit-a-thon is to give faculty, graduate students, and others the skills they need to improve or update existing Wikipedia entries relating to African American and African Diasporic history and culture and create vital new ones using the MSRC’s unique collections.
when
February 19, 2015 at 10 AM – 4 PM
where
MSRC Reading Room, Founders Library, Howard University
500 Howard Place NW, Washington, DC
Shaw–Howard University (Green and Yellow Lines)
your hosts
Howard University, Wikimedia DC Feel free to also sign your name in the
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From our sister event in New York
Violette Neatley Anderson (1882–1937), lawyer and reformer
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Lawrence Benjamin Brown (1893–1973), American pianist, composer, and arranger of folk songs
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Glory Van Scott (b. 1947), dancer and educator
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Charles A. Smythwick , novelist
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Harlem Book Fair
National Black Theatre
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Molefe Pheto , South African political prisoner
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Mogorosi Motshumi (b. 1955), South African cartoonist
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Dumile Feni (b. 1942), South African sculptor
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Charles Cyrus Thomas (1909–1988) (died in California)
Mildred Blount (1907–1974?), milliner
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Ruth Bowen (1924–2009), booking agent
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Elombe Brath (d. 2014), anti-apartheid activist
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Judy Dearing (1940–1995), Broadway costume designer
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Cheryll Greene , editor
Harlem Six
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Eliza Healy (1846–1919), educator, first African American Catholic Mother Superior (see
Healy family#Eliza Healy )
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Roi Ottley
Myra Adele Logan (1908–1977), physician at Harlem Hospital (I looked at the
deleted page for her and there is nothing to bring to the new article.)
Maritcha Rémond Lyons (1848–1929)
Ruth Logan Roberts (1891–1968), Harlem salon host, suffragist, activist
Cecelia Cabaniss Saunders (1883–1966), Harlem YWCA leader
Greater Bethel AME Church (Harlem)
James Yates , soldier, civil rights activist and author
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Violette Neatly Anderson , first Black woman lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (1926)
George Washington Ellis ,
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Ellis,+George+Washington
List generated at event
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Howard University Founders Library!
Thanks to the Schomburg Center at NYPL for putting together this information:
The
Teahouse is a good online help desk if you need help editing