NAACP
Berkshire County Branch
Unit #2044
“One Nation Working Together, For Justice and Equality Everywhere”
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No General Membership meeting on July 3, 2019
We will not be holding a General Membership Meeting in July. Please join us for Pittsfield's 4th of July Parade and at the Gather-in on July 27th.
read moreWomen of Color Giving Circle Annual Graduate Event
The NAACP Berkshires is a partner in this event.
read moreEmployment Opportunity with Berkshire Children and Families – May 2019
Berkshire Children and Families is seeking a Pittsfield Community Connection Director. Click the "download" button below to see the full job announcement including the experience and skills needed for this position. They do want folks to know "We don’t expect that...
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Tyler Street Lab, 730 Tyler Street, Pittsfield, MA, USA
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...
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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...
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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.