NAACP
Berkshire County Branch
Unit #2044
“One Nation Working Together, For Justice and Equality Everywhere”
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Join us for some time in the wonderful outdoors.
Our branch is teaming up with the Massachusetts Audubon Society for a nature hike on April 14th - the perfect time to experience the natural wonders of spring. All ages welcome. See details on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/607110023091884/ or click the...
read moreMarch general membership meeting to feature South African visual artist Iris Dawn Parker
We will be joining the students and staff of Miss Hall's School for our March general meeting on March 6, 2019 to hear about the social justice work of Iris Dawn Parker. The meeting starts at 6 PM. Miss Hall's is at 492 Holme's Rd. in Pittsfield. Click on the download...
read moreBeing Black in the Berkshires and MLK Birthday celebration- from CTSB TV
If you missed Being Black in the Berkshires Part 2, recently hosted by Multicultural Bridge, and the MLK Celebration at the First Congregational Church in Great Barrington, they are both being aired on CTSB TV as well as on its Vimeo channel. If you do not have cable...
read moreGeneral Membership Meeting
Conte Community School, 200 W Union St, 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...
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.