NAACP
Berkshire County Branch
Unit #2044
“One Nation Working Together, For Justice and Equality Everywhere”
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NEAC Supports Massachusetts Transfer fee legislation in support of affordable housing
NEAC, the coordinating body for all NAACP branches in New England, has voted unanimously to support Massachusetts Bills H.1377 and S.921 An Act empowering cities and towns to support affordable housing with a fee on certain real estate transactions enabling...
Employment opportunity: Mystic Seaport Museum Youth Intern and Program Coordinator; deadline November 19th
Mystic Seaport Museum is beginning a multi-year initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation called Reimagining New England Histories: Historical Injustice, Sovereignty and Freedom that will explore and reinterpret histories of New England to students,...
Want to be part of Climate Change solutions? join our Berkshire County Branch Environmental & Climate Justice Committee
Environmental injustices, including climate change, have a disproportionate impact on communities of color and low income communities in the Berkshires, the United States, and around the world. This committee works with the community to: reduce harmful pollutants and...
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.