Upcoming Events
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Legacy- BWOA
Call for PapersLegacy Forum 42.1- Black Women’s Organizing Archive (BWOA) The late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century saw a surge in organizations and clubs founded by
Digitize Black Women’s Records Day 2024
Digitize Black Women’s Records Day 2024 March 26, 2024 • Noon – 3:15 p.m. Freeman Auditorium, HUB, Penn State, University Park and Streaming to YouTube
Archivist Roundtable 2023
Digitizing Black Women’s Records: Archivist Roundtable October 11, 2023 • 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET This “meet and greet” discussion provides a collaborative space where our featured
Past Events
“Papers Worthy of Patronage”: Black Feminist Research Methods and the Digital Humanities
“Papers Worthy of Patronage”: Black Feminist Research Methods and the Digital Humanities Dr. Kristin Moriah Assistant Professor Queen’s University; Center for Black Digital Research Satellite
Mary Ann Shadd Cary in the Here and Now
Oct. 1 and 2, 2021 • Virtual Symposium Join scholars, historians, archivists, and community members share papers and discuss next steps towards celebrating Shadd Cary’s
Transcribe Terrell • Douglass Day 2021
On February 12 and 14, 2021, the Black Women’s Organizing Archive partnered with the Douglass Day team and Library of Congress to transcribe the last major portion of Mary Church Terrell’s archive.
Dancing Mary Ann Shadd Cary’s Activist Legacies
On Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, we saluted the Shadd’s Daughters Project: an oral history project of women journalists, educators, activists, and lawyers from the U.S and Canada who are carrying on Shadd Cary’s legacy as a pioneer in these areas.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary and the Power of Black Art
On October 9, 2020, Mary Ann Shadd Cary’s birthday, scholars, writers, and artists whose scholarly and artistic work draws upon the powerful legacy of Mary Ann Shadd Cary.