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Berkshire County Branch
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Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Jan 20th CANCELLED
Due to the predicted major storm, the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at the Second Congregational Church in Pittsfield on Sunday January 20, 2019 has been cancelled.
read moreEnjoy the great outdoors this winter
The Berkshire Natural Resources Council (Landkeepers) and and the Berkshire Environmental Action Team (The Beat) have many outings planned for this winter that are free and open to the public. Our Environmental and Economic Justice Committee encourages all members to...
read moreClinton Church Restoration announces the selection of architects
One of the few African-American architectural firms in the country, Huff+Gooden Architects of New York City has been chosen for the restoration and adaptive re-use of the historic Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church in Great Barrington. Read the full story here. http://...
read moreNAACP Berkshires Oral History Project Exhibit – Opening
Berkshire Museum, 39 South 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.