On February 14th, Fairfield students, faculty, and staff joined the Library, the BSU, WGSS, and over 7,000 participants from 134 locations in a Douglass Day transcribe-a-thon dedicated to transcribing, describing, and cataloging the archival papers of Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893), one of the earliest Black women to publish and edit a newspaper, serve as a Civil War recruiter, and attend law school.
Douglass Day transcribe-a-thons began in 2017 as an initiative of the Colored Conventions Project to revive the early 20th-century celebrations of Frederick Douglass