NAACP
Berkshire County Branch
Unit #2044
Freedom Fund Awards Dinner
Sat, November 3, 2018
6:00 PM – 11:00 PM
We will be honoring three powerful women who lift our community and exemplify strength in feminity: Mabel Hamilton, Dr. Francis Jones-Sneed and Associate Professor Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste
Our Keynote Speaker for the Freedom Fund Dinner will be one of our honorary awardees, UMass Amherst Associate Professor Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste.
Wanda Houston will return to entertain us with her soulful sound as we enjoy an evening of community coming together.
“One Nation Working Together, For Justice and Equality Everywhere”
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Civil Rights Bus Tour Presentation Oct. 4, 2023 at 6 PM at our General Meeting
Members of the NAACP, Berkshire County Branch please join the branch for our monthly meeting on Wednesday, October 4 at 6 pm via Zoom. Members will receive the Zoom link in their email. If you are not a member and wish to attend the presentation send an email request...
BIKE & LEARN: PITTSFIELD’S AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY TRAIL
Sunday, September 10, 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM Join Marge Cohan, from the Berkshire Bike Path Council, and Kamaar Taliaferro, from the NAACP Berkshire County Branch, as they bike ride to historic African-American sites in Pittsfield and then enjoy a tour of the historic...
Standout against hate, racism, antisemitism and gun violence with the NAACP Berkshire County Branch on Wednesday August 30th 5:30-7:00 PM Park Square, Pittsfield
Branch members, community members, allies, and friends, Once again, we are bemoaning the killing of three black citizens of Jacksonville, Florida in a racist attack. The murders occurred this past Saturday, (8/26), at a Dollar General store after...
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.