NAACP
Berkshire County Branch
Unit #2044
“One Nation Working Together, For Justice and Equality Everywhere”
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2nd Annual Celebration of Black Voices produced by Barrington Stage Company August 11-14, 2022
Come and join the festivities in our celebration of local Black artists, featuring a Kick-Off Concert with the BrownSkin Band, an Adult Talent Show with cash prizes, a Community Gospel Concert and a host of other events. Reconnect with the community, get some...
Need information about the upcoming 2022 Elections in Berkshire County? Check out our new Berkshire Elections page
Berkshire Elections Voting is important! The NAACP is a non-partisan organization and does not endorse candidates but we DO work to inform our community about the candidates and the issues through information sessions and candidate forums so everyone can make an...
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Ralph J. Bunche
Ralph Bunche was born in 1904 in Detroit Michigan. Ralph Bunche was a scholar, a diplomat, and an American statesman best remembered as the United Nations mediator who negotiated new armistice agreements with the Arab states following the establishment of the state...
Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price was born in 1927 in Laurel, Mississippi. She learned to play the piano when she was very young. In high school she became known as a powerful vocal talent. After college she studied voice at Juilliard School in New York City on a full scholarship...
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was an innovator of Jazz poetry, a prolific writer and one of the principal voices of the Harlem Renaissance. In 1921, his poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” was published in The Crisis. In 1924 Hughes received an Opportunity award for first prize in...
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Founded Feb. 12. 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization. Its more than half-million members and supporters throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities, campaigning for equal opportunity and conducting voter mobilization.