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2nd Annual Howard University Black History Month Edit-a-Thon

The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC), in collaboration with Wikimedia DC, is hosting Howard University's second annual 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 Diaspora history and culture and create vital new ones using the MSRC's unique collections.

when

: February 26, 2016 at 10 AM – 4 PM

where

: Founders Library Browsing Room, Founders Library, Howard University

: 500 Howard Place NW, Washington, DC{{#if:Shaw–Howard University (Green and Yellow Lines)|

: 15px Shaw–Howard University (Green and Yellow Lines)}}

your hosts

: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC)

: [https://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Home Wikimedia DC]

[https://howard.libsurveys.com/2016-MSRC-Wikipedia-Edit-a-Thon-Registration RSVP]
 Feel free to also sign your name in the section below.

Sign up!

  1. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 00:49, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
  2. FeanorStar7 00:54, 11 February 2016 (UTC) (tentative)
  3. Duckduckstop (talk)
  4. Christina Burke
  5. Daja Henry

Articles to work on

  • Beth A. Brown (1969-2008), NASA astrophysicist[http://space.about.com/od/astronomerbiographies/a/bethbrown.htm]
  • Benilde Little, author[http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2006-Le-Ra/Little-Benilde.html]
  • Doris Evans McGinty (d. 2005), Howard University professor [http://www.coas.howard.edu/music/huje/McGinty.htm]
  • African Americans in foreign policy
  • Farish Street – African-American business district in Jackson, Mississippi
  • Violette Neatley Anderson (1882–1937), lawyer and reformer; first Black woman lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (1926)[http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/violette-anderson-early-legal-representative][http://books.google.com/books?id=ssMBzqrUpjwC&lpg=PA12&dq=Violette%20Anderson&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q&f=false]
  • Lawrence Benjamin Brown (1893–1973), American pianist, composer, and arranger of folk songs[http://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/mg38.pdf][http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2238&dat=19730102&id=zUpAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CfUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2744,137106]
  • Glory Van Scott (b. 1947), dancer and educator[http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/glory-van-scott-40]
  • Charles A. Smythwick, novelist[https://books.google.com/books?id=nr8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA49&dq=Charles%20A.%20Smythwick&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=false][https://books.google.com/books?id=mL8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA51&dq=Charles%20A.%20Smythwick&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q&f=false]
  • Harlem Book Fair
  • National Black Theatre[http://www.nationalblacktheatre.org/#!about-us/cpu4][http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/theater/national-black-theater-in-harlem-settles-disputes.html?_r=0]
  • Molefe Pheto, South African political prisoner[https://books.google.com/books?id=RSvAKgxEhuwC&lpg=PA53&dq=%22Molefe%20Pheto%22&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false][https://books.google.com/books?id=cS65Hw0rY1MC&lpg=PA186&dq=%22Molefe%20Pheto%22&pg=PA186#v=onepage&q&f=false]
  • Mogorosi Motshumi (b. 1955), South African cartoonist[http://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/cartoonistemerges-from-a-life-lived-in-shadows-1.1445248#.VNOYGTVVK1E]
  • Dumile Feni (b. 1942), South African sculptor[http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/dumile-feni]
  • Charles Cyrus Thomas (1909–1988) (died in California)
  • Mildred Blount (1907–1974?), milliner[https://books.google.com/books?id=gt-e-5H9B7QC&lpg=PA234&dq=%22mildred%20blount%22&pg=PA234#v=onepage&q&f=false][https://books.google.com/books?id=-VYN_LWZwf4C&lpg=PA292&dq=%22mildred%20blount%22&pg=PA292#v=onepage&q&f=false]
  • Ruth Bowen (1924–2009), booking agent[http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/ruth-bowen-pioneering-agent-died-tuesday-84-article-1.361097]
  • Elombe Brath (d. 2014), anti-apartheid activist[http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/harlem-mourns-death-activist-elombe-brath-article-1.1800926]
  • Judy Dearing (1940–1995), Broadway costume designer[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/04/arts/judy-dearing-costume-designer-and-former-dancer-dies-at-55.html]
  • Cheryll Greene (1943-2013), editor
  • Harlem Six [https://books.google.ch/books?id=zuAGrq7q_WcC&lpg=PA87&dq=%22Harlem%20Six%22&hl=de&pg=PA87#v=onepage&q&f=false][https://books.google.ch/books?id=yMIZZahy_cYC&lpg=PA122&dq=%22Harlem%20Six%22&hl=de&pg=PA122#v=onepage&q&f=false]
  • Eliza Healy (1846–1919), educator, first African American Catholic Mother Superior (see Healy family#Eliza Healy)[http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/healy-eliza-sister-mary-magdalen-1846-1918]
  • Roi Ottley (1906-1960), journalist
  • Myra Adele Logan (1908–1977), physician at Harlem Hospital (I looked at the [[Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Myra Adele Logan|

deleted page for her]] and there is nothing to bring to the new article.)

=Other to-do lists=

Research resources

  • [http://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg/digital-schomburg/links Digital Schomburg: Links and Resources]
  • [http://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg/digital-schomburg/online-exhibitions Digital Schomburg: Online Exhibitions]
  • [http://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg/digital-schomburg/books Digital Schomburg: Online Books]
  • [http://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg/digital-schomburg/images Digital Schomburg: Images & Illustrations]
  • [http://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg/africana-heritage-newsletters Digital Schomburg: Africana Heritage Newsletters]
  • [http://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/02/05/black-life-matters-wikipedia NYPL: Black Life Matters Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: How You Can Help]

Outcomes

{{BlackWikiHistoryMonth}}

Category:Black WikiHistory Month

Category:Wikipedia meetups in 2016

Category:Wikipedia meetups in Washington, D.C.