Wikipedia:Meetup/Nashville/Black Education

The Nashville Public Library is hosting the Third Annual "Our Story Matters Wikipedia Edit-a-thon" to contribute to articles on Wikipedia related to the Civil Rights Movement in Nashville and throughout the South. This year our focus will be on Black Education: People and Places that Inspired African American Education. We will explore the history of black public schools, local HBCUs and the educators that helped propel generations of students to greatness. This program is part of Black WikiHistory Month and is presented in partnership with Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Library system.

The Wikipedia training and Edit-a-thon will take place in the Special Collections Center on the second floor of the Nashville Public Library. Please bring a laptop with you.

Details

 * Date: Saturday, February 11, 2017
 * Time: 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
 * Location: Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Special Collections Center, Second floor, Nashville, Tennessee
 * Who should attend: Anyone interested in helping us improve the Wikipedia pages related to the Civil Rights Movement in Nashville. Beginners and experts welcome!
 * Hashtag: #nplCivilRights #ourstorymatters
 * Participating organizations: Nashville Public Library, Vanderbilt University

Please Bring A Laptop with You!

Sign up
Register for the event on Eventbrite if you plan to attend in-person. If you are able, please also add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row). If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, please create an account using the link in the upper right hand corner prior to the event date. We will provide some training at the event for first-time editors.

Likely attendees
(sign up by editing the page and entering four tildes ~. This will automatically put in your username.)
 * 1) Amwilliams15 (talk) 18:09, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Sara francine(talk) 18:37, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Librarian Bryan (talk) 17:51, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 4) Lmstevens5947 (talk) 20:46, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 5) Apchiasson (talk) 16:23, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 6) CatonMA2 (talk) 20:42, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 7) Gonzalezreports (talk) 16:25, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 8) MeganA-J (talk) 15:30, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Attendees of record

 * 1) CatonMA2 (talk) 16:38, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Amwilliams15 (talk) 17:28, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) Kkendrickday (talk) 17:57, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 4) Librarian Bryan (talk) 21:47, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 5) MeganA-J (talk) 00:25, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 6) Sara_Francine (talk)

Content worked on

 * 1) provided Citation Needed for Hazel R. O'Leary page (re: Fisk University's endowment and fundraising) CatonMA2 (talk) 19:08, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) created article for First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill, Nashville
 * 3) created article for Hattie Cotton Elementary School and 1957 bombing MeganA-J (talk) 01:35, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 4) created article for Meigs School Kkendrickday (talk)

To create

 * Belleview School, Nashville
 * Buena Vista School, Nashville, African American school
 * Cameron School, Nashville
 * Coyness L. Ennix, founder of the Solid Block (Nashville) - a voting block demanding African American representation
 * First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill, Nashville, Meeting place for Sit-ins
 * Ford-Greene School, Nashville
 * Hattie Cotton Elementary School, bombed during integration
 * Haynes School, Nashville
 * History of African Americans in Nashville
 * Ivanetta H Davis, elementary school principal and wife of TSU president Walter S. Davis
 * Kelley v Board of Education
 * Knowles School, Nashville
 * Meigs School, African American school
 * Pearl School, Nashville
 * R.B.C. Howell, first pastor of First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill, Nashville
 * Randall Bartholomew Vandavall
 * Reverend William Haynes
 * Vandavall School, Nashville

To improve

 * African Americans in Tennessee
 * Categorization of articles
 * Charles S. Johnson - add Fisk Race Relations Institute
 * Erastus Milo Cravath - Fisk President
 * Fisk University protest - internal citations
 * History of Education in the United States - no Civil Rights Movement mention
 * Martin Luther King Magnet at Pearl High School
 * Nashville, TN
 * Timeline of Nashville, Tennessee
 * Timeline of the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954-68) segregation and integration, black education

Tools and templates

 * Training
 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia Template:Infobox person
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox