Digitizing Women's Suffrage

Date: Tuesday, February 25th, 2020

Time: 10AM-3PM

Where: Wentworth Institute of Technology, Lobby of the Center for Engineering, Innovation, and Science (CEIS) Commons

RSVPs are encouraged, but you can also drop in anytime during the day. [link to come]

Schedule:

10am: Getting Started and National Parks Service presentation 
11am: Meet the Suffragists: Mary Church Terrell and Anna Dickinson
1pm: Getting Started and National Parks Service presentation
2pm: Meet the Suffragists: Mary Church Terrell and Anna Dickinson

Bring your laptop!

Snacks provided

Participants in the Transcribathon will be working on transcribing original correspondence and other primary source materials digitally. The finished products will allow the collections to be fully searched by future scholars and enthusiasts.

Mary Church Terrell: Advocate for African Americans and women

Anna E. Dickinson: Public speaker and actor, suffragist

These collections are a part of the larger Suffrage Collection at the Library of Congress

Library of Congress Suffrage Collection