The
African American Heritage Trail encompasses 29
Massachusetts and Connecticut towns in the
Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area,
and celebrates African Americans in the region
who played pivotal roles in key national and international
events,
as well as ordinary people of achievement.
Among
the key 48 sites along the trail:
W.E.B.
Du Bois boyhood Homesite, a national landmark property
in Great Barrington, and the Burghardt homestead
where young Du Bois lived for a time
*
Col. Ashley House in Sheffield
where Elizabeth 'Mum Bett' Freeman was
enslaved
and whose successful suit for liberty
set the stage for the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts
*
Samuel Harrison House in Pittsfield,
home of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment chaplain
who protested discriminatory pay practices
Thursday,
February 25, 7:00 PM UMass Amherst Libraries
16th Annual Du Bois Lecture by Evelyn Brooks
Higginbotham
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Saturday,
February 27, 2:30 PM at Clinton AME Zion Church,
Du Bois Birthday Celebration
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for Information
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