(Photo/ Zenith Shrestha) Students work with Learning Center Coordinator Patricia Harris to transcribe papers written by Anna Julia Cooper, a prominent black scholar and activist. Lirona Joshi Staff Writer The Learning Center at Troy University observed Douglass Day last Friday. The day is a commemoration of the legacy of the African-American author Fredrick Douglass. In 2017, Douglas Day was incorporated by the Colored Conventions Project as an annual day for preserving Black history. For this year’s celebrations, institutions and individuals across the country gathered to conduct a transcribe-a-thon and read-a-thon…
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