NAACP
Berkshire County Branch
Unit #2044
“One Nation Working Together, For Justice and Equality Everywhere”
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Walkin’ with WordXWord at The Mount, Lenox on August 6th at 5 PM – Curated by D. Colin
D. Colin is a Haitian American multidisciplinary artist with an educational background in English & Africana Studies. She is a self-published author, a dynamic performer, a self-taught painter & maker of pretty things that make bold statements. Her mantra is...
cancelled Maxine Lyle & Soul Steps Offer Introduction to Step August 7-10 at the Tyler St. Lab in Pittsfield
Due to an emergency issue Maxine Lyle has had to cancel this event.
‘Create To Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America’ at Chesterwood
Georges Adéagbo, a West African artist, brings a new perspective on Abraham Lincoln in his exhibit at Chesterwood in Stockbridge. His found object installation is the first time Chesterwood has had an exhibition of an artist's work along side its collection of the...
Ms. Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells Barnett 1862-1931 Ida Wells Barnett was a trailblazing journalist, a co-founder of the NAACP and a fierce advocate for equal rights and against lynching. From 1884 to 1891, Ida B. Wells taught segregated public school in Memphis, Tennessee, and began...
Little Rock Central High School
On September 4, 1957, 9 young African-American men and women tried to enter Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. Defying the Supreme Court's ruling and our victory in Brown v. The Board of Education, Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard...
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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.