Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Afrocrowd/AMC

Join us for a Wikipedia learn-to-edit-a-thon and oral history capture focused on curating the history of civil rights and social justice movements in Detroit through firsthand and researched accounts. Afro Free-Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD) and the Radical, Libraries, Archives and Museums track (RadLAM) invite participants to share testimonies at an oral history listening Station, or get trained on how to add and edit articles on Wikipedia. Wikipedia coaches and members of RadLAM will be on-hand to help.

Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 2:30pm State Hall: Room 137

 Hands-on Session

Track General Audience Everyone

AfroCROWD aims to increase the number of people of African Descent who edit Wikipedia + actively partake in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements.

Agenda

AfroCROWD at the Allied media Conference, Detroit June 2017

When and Where
Date	June 18, 2017
Time	10:00am - 2:30pm
Address	Detroit Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 View Map
City, State	Detroit, Michigan 48202

This is part of the Allied Media Conference. Held every summer in Detroit, the conference brings together a vibrant and diverse community of people using media to incite change: filmmakers, radio producers, technologists, youth organizers, writers, entrepreneurs, musicians, dancers, and artists. We define "media" as anything you use to communicate with the world. You are a media-maker! Learn more about the Allied Media Conference.

Possible articles to edit

These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidelines before you create a new page. Thanks!

• Peter Denison
• Hannah Denison
• Michigan Territorial Supreme Court in 1807
• Lisette Denison Forth
• Blackburns' Escape (1833)
• Colored Vigilant Committee of Detroit
• George DeBaptiste
• Joseph Labadie
• Frederick Douglass
• John Brown in Detroit in 1859
• Fannie Richards
• Ferguson vs. Gies 1890
• McGhee vs. Sipes Racial Covenant Case 1948
• 1963 "Walk to Freedom" March
• Malcolm X’s speech Message from the Grass Roots given at
• Wayne State University, State Hall in 1963
• James Boggs
• Grace Lee Boggs
• Michael Hamlin
• Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
• Pun Plamondon
• Leni Sinclair
• Detroit Water shut-offs
• Demographics of Brooklyn - could use updates to demographic and cultural histories

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Likely attendees

• Elliemp (talk) 15:59, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

• 00Scribe20 (talk) 16:18, 18 June 2017 (UTC)