NAACP
Berkshire County Branch
Unit #2044
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Employment Opportunities – Berkshire Music School
Berkshire Music School is seeking a Community Engagement Associate. This is a new entry-level part-time position, but may be expanded to full time. COMMUNITY-ENGAGEMENT-ASSOCIATE job descriptionDownload The School is looking to expand its roster of faculty. FACULTY...
W.E.B. Du Bois Homesite Dedication
On October 18th, The Town of Great Barrington will mark the 51st anniversary of the dedication of the W.E.B. Du Bois homesite with an invitation to engage and reflect on the legacy of hometown hero and internationally renowned activist-scholar W.E.B. Du Bois. The...
Barrington Stage Announces
Branch Meeting
Lyfe Reign Bootcamp
12 Week Trauma Recovery Support Group
Elizabeth Freeman Center, Great Barrington Location, 168 Main Street, Great Barrington, 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...
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.