Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/History of 19th Century African American Education Edit-a-thon



History of 19th Century African American Education Edit-a-thon



Description
 * Join us remotely and help improve and create Wikipedia content related to the history of African American education in the 19th century.


 * This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Training will be provided for new Wikipedia editors.


 * Presented remotely by Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives and Wikimedia DC.

When
 * January 29, 2022
 * 10am-1pm

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Article Work List
Draft articles for expansion and creation
 * Please use this Google sheet to reserve the article you plan to edit. Remove your name when you are done.


 * Washington, DC


 * Draft:Chamberlain School
 * Tasks:Add location, namesake, and that school outgrew its space quickly, etc.


 * Draft:Lovejoy School
 * Tasks: Add namesake, more about first dedicated building, newest buildings and condo conversion.


 * Article created - Bell School (Washington D.C.)
 * Tasks: Add founders (George Bell, Nicholas Franklin, Moses Liverpool), general location (near Providence Hospital (Washington, D.C.), etc.


 * Article created - John F. Cook School
 * Tasks:Add original location (15th Street Presbyterian Church) and where it moved in 1925


 * Article created - Smothers School House	See page 192) ✅ Now published as Smothers School House
 * Tasks: Add role of Smothers as educator, why school was founded, that John Prout took over, etc.


 * Article created - Lincoln School (Washington DC)
 * Tasks: Add exact location, the it was also home to superintendent, etc. Add this photo


 * Article created - Ebenezer United Methodist Church - Housed DC's first publicly financed school for black children
 * Tasks:Add founding date (1838), general history, when school opened in building and when it moved.[


 * Article created - George Bell (activist)
 * Tasks: Add family history, where born and died, etc.->


 * Article created - Resolute Beneficial Society			(Source, Page 191.
 * Tasks: Add founders, story of school they founded


 * Article created - John F. Cook Sr.
 * Tasks: Add personal story, career history, etc.


 * Article created - Mary Billings	Source. Page 192
 * Tasks: Add date when she founded the school. Add notable alumni section, add Anne Marie Becraft to the list.


 * Virginia


 * Article created - George Lewis Seaton
 * Tasks: Add personal and family history, that he founded a bank, offices held, location of historic home with own article, etc.


 * Article created - Hallowell School for Girls
 * Tasks: Add when built (1870's), that it merged with Snowden School for Boys, and became Parker-Gray School. Add that the school was built by George C. Seaton, a notable African American Alexandria man.


 * Article created - Snowden School for Boys
 * Tasks: Add when built (1867)[], when it became part of the public school system (1870), that it merged with Hallowell School for Girls, and eventually became Parker-Gray School. Also add that it was originally names Seaton School after George C. Seaton, a notable African American Alexandria man who built the school.


 * Article created - First Free School Society of Alexandria
 * Tasks: Add that it is memorialized on a pillar in Alexandria's African American Heritage Memorial Park. Also add list of members. Both points are stated in this source ->.


 * Draft:Laurel Grove School
 * Tasks: Add connection to the Jasper-Walker family and that it's a one room schoolhouse. Also add that it's the last African American one room school house standing in Northern Virginia.. Add this photo from Commons


 * Draft:Jane Crouch
 * Tasks: Add that she was principal of Hallowell School.


 * Draft:Jacobs Free School
 * Tasks: Add that is was the region's first school with African Americans totally in control of school operations.. Add this photo


 * Draft:Sarah A. Gray


 * Baltimore


 * Draft:Colored School No. 1 (Baltimore)
 * Tasks: Add that it was Female Colored School No. 1 and Male Colored School No. 1 combined in one building. The combined grammar school was first opened in 1869. Earliest location was probably the Peale building, but first confirmed mention of that location happens in 1872. High school was added opened in 1882. High School goes independent and leaves building in 1888. Male and female school separate.


 * Brooklyn


 * Draft: Catherine Clow - Brooklyn's first African American Principal
 * Draft:Colored School No. 2
 * Tasks: Add content and this photo. Create redirect from Weeksville School. Add physical location of original school.


 * Article created - Philip A. White'''  - First African American member of the Brooklyn Board of Education
 * Tasks: Add details about early life and charity work, etc. Add this photo. After the article is moved to Mainspace Wikipedia, go to [Colored School No. 3] and add link to White's article.


 * Draft:Georgiana Putnam  - Educator, colleague of Sarah J. Garnet. First African American to serve in a position equivalent to Assistant Principal.


 * Philadelphia


 * Article created - Benezet's School
 * Tasks: Add Benezet image
 * Note: 18th century school


 * North Carolina


 * Draft:Samuel Ashley -
 * Tasks: Add more about early life and work in North Carolina, etc.

Existing articles needing improvement or expansion
 * Please use this Google sheet to reserve the article you plan to edit. Remove your name when you are done.


 * Charles Sumner School
 * Tasks:


 * James Forten School
 * Tasks: Add hyperlinks, add redirect from Mary Street School. Add infbox with this photo.


 * Emma V. Brown
 * Tasks: Add sections


 * Charlotte Andrews Stephens - First African American teacher in Little Rock Arkansas.
 * Task: Expand short article.
 * Photo: Use as external link. Date of photo is unknown, therefore it cannot be added to Commons because it may not be pre-1927


 * Thaddeus Stevens School (Washington, D.C.)
 * Task: Rewrite in an encyclopedic tone. Fix typos.


 * Dunbar High School (Washington, D.C.)
 * Task: Add more about Francis Lewis Cardozo's connection to the original school. Be sure to include hyperlink to his article.


 * Sarah Dudley Pettey
 * Task: Add more about influence and work as an educator at the New Bern school


 * Beulah Normal and Theological Institute
 * Task: Establish lead paragraph, create sections


 * Sarah Gibson Jones
 * Task: Expand


 * Maria W. Stewart
 * Task: Add this photo


 * Alethia Tanner
 * Task: Add more citations.


 * Anna Hallowell
 * Tasks: Expand lead paragrah, add sections. Add this photo.

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