For Day 19 of Black History Month, I made some edits to the Wikipedia page for James Reese Europe, prompted by an interview with Maurice Jackson at Black Perspectives.

For Day 18 of Black History Month, I did some light copyediting on the Wikipedia page for Norma Merrick Sklarek.

Returning final copyedits today on a book, which lets me say goodbye and good riddance to Microsoft Word for a while!

For Day 16 of Black History Month, I updated the Wikipedia page for poet and playwright Ntozake Shange to reflect her academic teaching appointments, including her time at Rice University.

For Day 15 of Black History Month, I worked on the Wikipedia page for Kentucky lawmaker Mae Street Kidd, whom I wrote about in my post on delayed ratifications of the Reconstruction amendments. Kidd sponsored the resolution that led Kentucky to ratify the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments … in 1976.

For Day 14 of Black History Month, I did some work on the Wikipedia page for Frederick Douglass, including a reference to his great 1869 speech, Our Composite Nationality.

Next Thursday, I’ll be speaking at the Heritage Society in Houston as part of a Black History Month Lunch and Learn: “Captain’s Story: Slavery and Freedom in the Archives of The Heritage Society and Rice University.”

For Day 13 of Black History Month, I made some improvements to the pages for historian Julius S. Scott and his father, Julius S. Scott Jr..

In the last two weeks, my laptop died, my wife broke her elbow, and today as she had surgery to fix it, my kid came down with the flu. Maybe that dastardly penguin is up to his old tricks!

For Day 11 of Black History Month, I added to the Wikipedia entry for Joseph T. Wilson.

Updated some notes in my open research notebook: Norfolk Riot of 1866, clark2005.

For Day 10 of Black History Month, I added a few lines about the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s sponsorship of H.R. 40 to her Wikipedia entry.

For Day 9 of Black History Month, I added some citations and updates to the Wikipedia entry for Walter McAfee, a scientist and astronomer who made the critical calculations in the U.S. Army’s Diana Project, a 1946 effort to make “radar” contact with the moon.

I’ve started using a label maker to help me find the analog journal issue I need. Just worked!

For Day 8 of Black History Month, I made some minor improvements to the Wikipedia entry for Lewis Hayden.

I am once again being that Historian Dad. But c’mon, it’s the Lewis and Harriet Hayden House! No apologies.

For Day 7 of Black History Month, inspired by a post on Picturing Black History, I added some links, dates and citations about Arthur Ashe’s anti-apartheid activism to his Wikipedia page.

On the road today for college visits with my senior. For Day 6 of Black History Month, I edited the Wikipedia page of a college we toured last semester which had the wrong year for its integration and did not list student names.

Only in a History Department mailroom….

On Day 5 of Black History Month, I did a little work to expand Wikipedia’s “stub” entry on the James Forten School in Philadelphia.

Updated some notes in my open research notebook: 1866, Memphis.

For Day 4 of Black History Month, I made some edits to the Barbara Jordan entry on Wikipedia, including a reference to a speech she once gave at Rice.

For Day 3 of Black History Month, I made some additions to the Wikipedia entry on Henry Highland Garnet.

Today I’ll be trying to see if I can recover anything from my laptop after it crashed on Friday at (of course) 5 pm. 🤞