Douglass Day at WWU

WWU is participating in the national celebration of Frederick Douglass’ birthday by hosting Douglass Day, an event of commemoration and collective action, and you are invited to join us. Stop by the VU Room 735 between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.

This year’s Transcribe-a-thon features the African American Perspectives Collection at the Library of Congress. 

There will also be a birthday cake decorating station (11am-12pm) and lunch from Calypso Kitchen (12pm-1pm).

For more information or to request disability accommodation, contact: DouglassDay@wwu.edu. Please see the WWU Black History Month website for more information. 

Black History Month Co-Sponsors

• Black Student Coalition
• Multicultural Student Services
• Ethnic Student Center
• La Plaza - Latine Student Center
• Disability Outreach Center
• Woodring College of Education (CEED, ESJ)
• Counseling Health and Wellness; Counseling and Wellness Center
• Douglass Day Committee
• WWU Athletics; JEDI Team
• Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action Committee

Douglass Day Sponsors

• Center for Canadian American Studies
• College of Humanities & Social Sciences
• Department of Global Humanities & Religions
• Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
• English Department
• History Department
• Journalism Department
• Political Science Department
• The Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity
• Sociology Department
• Western Libraries
• Woodring College of Education
• Department of Ethnic Studies