NAACP
Berkshire County Branch
Unit #2044
“One Nation Working Together, For Justice and Equality Everywhere”
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Our October General Meeting is in North Adams with DA Harrington
We are holding our October General Meeting in North Adams for the convenience of North County members and friends. Guest speaker is District Attorney Andrea Harrington. Please join us. Time: 6 PM ----------------------- Location: The Green, 87 Main St., North...
read moreSeptember Membership meeting to feature North Adams Mayor and Police Chief
North Adams Mayor Tom Bernard and Police Chief Jason Wood, at the invitation of the Social Justice Action Committee, will discuss their recent experience with taking the North Adams police force out of the civil service system for hiring. They also will talk about the...
read moreNo 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 moreFree Bridges Out of Poverty Workshop
18 Degrees, 480 West St, Pittsfield, MA 01201, USA
Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
Williams College Museum of Art, 15 Lawrence Hall Dr, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA
Lgbtq+ Community Potluck
First Congregational Church Williamstown, 906 Main Street, Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267, 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...
read moreExplore Our History
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.