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Black women: History edit‑a‑thon
Online event February 2019
Christine Eyene
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Type	Edit-a-thon
Series	Black women
Articles	Meetup 110 articles (120)
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In February 2019, Women in Red is focusing on black women in conjunction with Black History Month.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about black women, as well as their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in our initiative. You are of course also welcome to add articles on any other notable women who deserve to be covered, for example under our #1day1woman priority.

The main goals of the event are:

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
• to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
• to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter)

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create this month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
• This essay on creating women's biographies and ourTen Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
• If you tweet about any of the articles, or upload any of the images to Pinterest, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

These are lists of redlinked articles to be created. A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on ourRedlist index. Those relating to black women are listed below:

• Black women in the visual arts (created automatically from Wikidata)
• Black history (crowd sourced list)
• Black women in the US (crowd sourced list)
• Indigenous black women in Australia (crowd sourced list)

If it's not already on a list, you can make specific article suggestions here. If possible, please include a source.

• Add here

You can improve articles that have already been started which match this month's theme but need more work.Drafts may be listed here or on the Crowd-sourced lists above. Editors may list theiruserspace drafts here if they want assistance. Skilled editors can reviewarticles submitted for creation (AfC).Articles considered for deletion (AfD) can be listed if they need improvements, such as addingcitations to establishnotability (useWP:HEY when done).

• Lottie 'The Body' Graves - article proposed for deletion 3 February 2019, tagged for multiple issues since 2017 Done
• Edythe Lewis - article nominated for deletion 4 February 2019, a stub since 2004

Key:

• Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
• Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
• Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter

Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new

New/expanded articles featured in theDid you know... column of the WikipediaMain page

• ... that Venezuelan journalistLuz Mely Reyes was one of the "Guardians" highlighted forTime Person of the Year 2018? (17 March)
• ... thatVéronique Aka(pictured) was the first woman to be elected president of anIvorian regional council? (14 March)
• ... thatJoyce Sumbi, one of thirteen black librarians in the 242-librarianLA County Library system in 1971, charged her employer with discrimination against minorities? (25 February)
• ... thatMadame A. C. Bilbrew directed the choir that appeared as cotton pickers singingspirituals inHearts in Dixie, one of the first all-blacktalkies? (24 February)
• ... that, influenced by theHarlem Renaissance, Los Angeles teacherDorothy Vena Johnson wrote poems such as "Epitaph for a Bigot" and "Post War Ballad"? (23 February)
• ... thatJennie Jackson, an original member of theFisk Jubilee Singers, performed with the ensemble before US PresidentUlysses S. Grant,Mark Twain, andQueen Victoria? (20 February)

Add here – most recent at the top

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  Mary A. McCurdy
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  Vivian Osborne Marsh
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  Janie Porter Barrett
• Painting by Elizabeth Colomba
  Painting byElizabeth Colomba
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  Lavinia B. Sneed
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  M. Cravath Simpson, 1910
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  Gbemi Olateru Olagbegi
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  Samke Makhoba
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  Mamodibe Ramodibe
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  Nadia Nakai
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  Moonchild Sanelly
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  Bontle Modiselle
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  Lerato Walaz
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  Dee Rasedile
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  Mamodibe Ramodibe
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  Thishiwe Ziqubu
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  Lerato Walaza
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  Keitumetse Sefothelo
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  Mohau Mokoatle-Cele
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  Samke Makhoba
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  Nadia Nakai
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  Moonchild Sanelly
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  Atiya
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  Tolani
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  Cee C
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  Ella D. Barrier
• Renee Powell
  Renee Powell
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  Alice Wiley Seay
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  Ione Wood Gibbs
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  Sarah Garland Boyd Jones
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  Jennie Jackson
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  Sara Winifred Brown
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  Amelia Tilghman
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  Northeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs
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  Thyra J. Edwards
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  Eva Roberta Coles Boone
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  Althea Brown Edmiston
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  Mary Eliza Walker Crump

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