NAACP
Berkshire County Branch
Unit #2044
“One Nation Working Together, For Justice and Equality Everywhere”
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FALL WALKS SCHEDULE Sunday, October 3 and Saturday, October 9. NAACP members welcome
Date: Sunday, October 3 @ 11AM Location: The Boulders (at the intersection of RT 8/9 Dalton Avenue & Hubbard Avenue) Walk Leaders: Mary Miss and Charles CanhamMary Miss – Founder and Artistic Director of CALL/City as Living Laboratory. Since the early 1970s, Mary...
Political Action Committee Surveys Candidates for Pittsfield City Council
The Political Action Committee of the NAACP Berkshire County Branch sent a survey to all the candidates for Pittsfield City Council. Download the survey results below to see and compare their responses. The download button is in the center at the top of the...
Join with us in support of the Elizabeth Freeman Center
NAACP Branch members will participate in two walks Pittsfield September 21st at 5:30 PM Meet at Persip Park: Intersection of North St & Columbus Ave. Great Barrington September 22nd at 5:30 PM Meet in front of Great Barrington town Hall NAACP Berkshire County...
Equinox Ceremony & Potluck
April Hill (Greenagers), South Egremont, Egremont, MA, USA
Listening Deeply: Indigenous Voices Panel Discussion
Unitarian Universalist Meeting of South Berkshire, 1089 Main Street, Housatonic, MA
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...
Explore 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.