Honoring Chapel Hill’s Civil Rights Change Makers: A Transcribe-a-thon Event for the Digital Freedom Fighters Gateway

Participants will explore Chapel Hill’s civil rights legacy and the work of The Marian Cheek Jackson Center, a nonprofit that honors, renews and builds community in local historically Black neighborhoods. We will focus on our gateways project, which honors pillars of the community (including civil rights change-makers) with physical monuments inspired by oral histories. Participants can be a part of preserving this important history by creating short transcripts of oral histories for a wide range of users, including K-12 educators and their students in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. Participants should bring their own laptops, smart devices and headphones to access audio clips via QR codes and transcribe short (2-3 minute) audio clips about local civil rights history.

Presenters: Kathryn Wall, Co-Director of Public History, Marian Cheek Jackson Center and Anna Spencer, Co-Director of Public History, Marian Cheek Jackson Center

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