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Software, E-Resource Transcription dataset from the Mary Church Terrell Papers, Manuscript Division By the People transcription campaign title : Mary Church Terrell : advocate for African Americans and women

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Title

  • Transcription dataset from the Mary Church Terrell Papers, Manuscript Division

Other Title

  • By the People transcription campaign title : Mary Church Terrell : advocate for African Americans and women

Summary

  • This dataset is an export of transcriptions for 24,936 images from the Mary Church Terrell Papers created by volunteers participating in the Library of Congress crowdsourcing program By the People (https://crowd.loc.gov) campaign Mary Church Terrell: Advocate for African Americans and Women. It contains text created by volunteers through a transcription and review process, volunteer-created tags, digital collections metadata, and metadata representing the arrangement of the items in the By the People platform, Concordia.
  • The dataset includes transcriptions and data generated from the pages in the By the People campaign Mary Church Terrell: Advocate for African Americans and Women https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/mary-church-terrell-advocate-for-african-americans-and-women/). The campaign consisted of all then available online images of digitized content from the Mary Church Terrell Papers (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000076) transcribed in their entirety. The Terrell Papers reflect all phases of Terrell's public career as an educator, lecturer, club woman, writer, and political campaigner. The collection contains diaries, correspondence, printed matter, clippings, and speeches and writings, primarily focusing on her advocacy for women's rights and equal treatment of African Americans. See the Mary Church Terrell Papers digital collection (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000076) for all available online items for this collection, as well as contextual information, such as a timeline and bibliographic resources.
  • This dataset includes: 2021387726.zip - a zip file containing a CSV file and a README file -- mary-church-terrell-advocate-for-african-americans-and-women_2023-01-20.csv - a .CSV containing campaign, project, item, itemID, asset, and asset status metadata, as well as an image URL, the volunteer-created transcriptions, and volunteer-created tags. This .CSV is the direct export of the Mary Church Terrell: Advocate for African Americans and Women campaign.

Names

  • Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954
  • By the People (Program), compiler

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : By the People, Library of Congress, 2018-2021.

Headings

  • -  Terrell, Mary Church,--1863-1954
  • -  African Americans--Civil rights
  • -  African Americans--Education
  • -  African Americans--Societies, etc
  • -  Civil rights--United States
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Women--Suffrage
  • -  Women--Societies and clubs
  • -  Women's rights

Genre

  • Data sets

Notes

  • -  "Dataset created 2023-01-20."--README file.
  • -  Title from README file.

Medium

  • 1 online resource (dataset)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • E185.97.T47

Repository

  • s-Online Electronic Resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021387726

Online Format

  • compressed data

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Digital Collections Management and Services Division

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Terrell, Mary Church. Transcription dataset from the Mary Church Terrell Papers, Manuscript Division. composeds by By The People Iler Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, to 2021, 2018. Software, E-Resource. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021387726/.

APA citation style:

Terrell, M. C. (2018) Transcription dataset from the Mary Church Terrell Papers, Manuscript Division. By The People Iler, comp Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, to 2021. [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021387726/.

MLA citation style:

Terrell, Mary Church. Transcription dataset from the Mary Church Terrell Papers, Manuscript Division. comp by By The People Iler Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, to 2021, 2018. Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021387726/>.