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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

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1. Harej (talk) 16:08, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
2. (participating remotely) --sarahobender (talk • contribs) 15:00, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
3. (participating remotely) --Djembayz (talk) 18:43, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
4. Duckduckstop (talk) 15:24, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Articles to work on

• Beth A. Brown, NASA astrophysicist[1]
• Benilde Little, author[2]
• Doris Evans McGinty[3]
• African Americans in foreign policy
• Farish Street – African-American business district in Jackson, Mississippi

From our sister event in New York

• Violette Neatley Anderson (1882–1937), lawyer and reformer[4][5][6]
• Lawrence Benjamin Brown (1893–1973), American pianist, composer, and arranger of folk songs[7][8]
• Glory Van Scott (b. 1947), dancer and educator[9]
• Charles A. Smythwick, novelist[10][11]
• Harlem Book Fair
• National Black Theatre[12][13]
• Molefe Pheto, South African political prisoner[14][15]
• Mogorosi Motshumi (b. 1955), South African cartoonist[16]
• Dumile Feni (b. 1942), South African sculptor[17]
• Charles Cyrus Thomas (1909–1988) (died in California)
• Mildred Blount (1907–1974?), milliner[18][19]
• Ruth Bowen (1924–2009), booking agent[20]
• Elombe Brath (d. 2014), anti-apartheid activist[21]
• Judy Dearing (1940–1995), Broadway costume designer[22]
• Cheryll Greene, editor
• Harlem Six [23][24]
• Eliza Healy (1846–1919), educator, first African American Catholic Mother Superior (see Healy family#Eliza Healy)[25]
• 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[26]
• 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

• Charles Henry Thompson
• Dr. Lasalle D. Leffall, Jr. - Prominent surgeon and oncologist.
• William Dawson
• Hugh M. Gloster - College president and literature professor.
• Mark Fax
• Raymond Timothy Jackson
• Constance Tibbs Hobson
• Lilian Evans Tibbs
• Charlotte Wesley Holloman
• Frances Walker
• Cecil Cohen
• Massacre at Place Congo
• Evelyn Davidson White

Other to-do lists

• Wikipedia:WikiProject African diaspora/to do
• African-American artists
• missing entries from the Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
• Caribbean poets
• missing entries from Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia
• missing entries from Writing African-American Women
• missing entries from Black Women Scientists in the United States
• missing entries from the Dictionary of African Biography
• Timeline of New York City (existing article to be expanded)
• African American city/state/regional histories, e.g. more examples like in {{African Americans by location}}

Research resources

Howard University Founders Library!

Thanks to the Schomburg Center at NYPL for putting together this information:

• Digital Schomburg: Links and Resources
• Digital Schomburg: Online Exhibitions
• Digital Schomburg: Online Books
• Digital Schomburg: Images & Illustrations
• Digital Schomburg: Africana Heritage Newsletters
  • NYPL: Black Life Matters Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: How You Can Help

Outcomes

• Charles Henry Thompson add photo
• Jacob Carruthers add bibliography
• Violette Neatley Anderson add image
• Houston Conwill entry expanded
• Farish Street new article

Resources for after the event

• The Teahouse is a good online help desk if you need help editing