NAACP
Berkshire County Branch
Unit #2044
“One Nation Working Together, For Justice and Equality Everywhere”
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Join the Women of Color Giving Circle Annual Community Kwanzaa Celebration – December 29, 2020 at 6 PM
Kwanzaa is a secular holiday that celebrates African and African American culture and history from Dec. 26th to January 1st. Each day, one of the 7 principles of Kwanzaa is represented. This year, the Women of Color Giving Circle Annual Community KWANZAA Celebration...
NAACP BCB Partners with Guido’s for Virtual Cookbook Club gathering January 14, 2021 at 6:30 PM
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Meet the Lawyer for Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. – January 12, 2021 at 6 PM
A Conversation with Pioneering Civil Rights Hero Fred Gray With OLLI instructor and speaker Doug Mishkin Tuesday, January 12, 6pm ESTFREE and open to allOnline via Zoom: click here to register Congressman John Lewis called Fred Gray one of "the Founding Fathers...
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.