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Berkshire County Branch
Unit #2044
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Employment 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...
read moreA Trumpet at the Walls of Jericho: the Untold Story of Samuel Harrison – a documentary film to be shown in Pittsfield
The Samuel Harrison Society invites the public to a showing of the 2005 documentary of the extraordinary life of Samuel Harrison - the courageous Chaplain of the MA 54th Regiment of the Civil War. For more information about the film and those who appear in it, click...
read moreOur NAACP chapter now has its own meeting space
Our chapter is renting office space in the new Tyler Street Lab at 730 Tyler St. in Pittsfield. In addition to dedicated office space for small meetings, we will be able to use the larger gathering space for our general meetings and other programs. Watch this...
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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...
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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.