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African
American Heritage
in the Upper Housatonic Valley
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Table of
Contents
Introduction
Preface
Upper
Housatonic Valley
African American Heritage Trail
Mission and
Advisory Council
Introduction
What Should We Call Ourselves?
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
TImeline
Business and Professional Life
Black Entrepreneurs
Warren Davis, Entrepreneur
(read
by Wray Gunn for WAMC Northeast
Public Radio, 3.5 MG audio file)
Sylvanus Grant, Hewer of the Pittsfield
Elm
Men's Work 1863-1946
May Edward Chinn, Physician
Florence Edmonds, Public-Health Nurse
Henry Jenkins Roberts, Physician
John Garrett Penn, Federal Judge
Sources
Civil Rights and Social Activism
Slavery
in Northwest Connecticut
James Mars, Community Leader and
Activist
(read
by David Levinson for WAMC Northeast
Public Radio, 2.7 MG audio file)
Slavery in the Berkshires
Cuffee and Nana Negro,
Pioneer
Blacks in
Berkshire
County
Mum Bett (Elizabeth
Freeman),
Anti-Slavery Pioneer
(read
by Josh Burch for WAMC Northeast
Public Radio, 2.4 MG audio file)
Underground Railroad
W. E. B. Du Bois, Scholar and
Activist
James Weldon Johnson, Essayist and
Activist
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Committee
(read
by Elaine S. Gunn for WAMC Northeast
Public Radio, 3.1 MG audio file)
W. E. B. Du Bois Homesite Photo Essay
Ruth
D. Jones, Preserver of
the
Legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois
David Graham Du Bois, Scholar and
Activist
Activist
Orators
Sources
Education
Struggles and
Achievements
Lucy Terry Prince, Author
Dorothy Amos, Educator
Eugene Brooks, Educator
Margaret Alexander Hart, Educator
David Lester Gunn Sr.,
Coach and
Community Leader
Teaching
Black History and Culture
Sources
Military Service
American Revolution
Agrippa Hull, American Revolution Veteran and Caterer
Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts
Volunteer Infantry
Regiment
Milo J. Freeland, First
to Fulfill His Term with the
Massachusetts
54th Regiment
Edward Augustus Croslear,
Civil War
Veteran and Farmer
Civil War: Other Massachusetts
Units and Service
Civil War: The Connecticut
29th and
31st
Volunteer Infantry Regiments
World War I
The Persips in World War I
(read
by Rev. Esther Dozier for WAMC Northeast
Public Radio, 2.8 MG audio file)
World War II
Women in World War II
Sources
Religion
Religious Institutions
Women as Religious Leaders
Freeborn Garretson and “Black Harry”
Hosier
in
Northwest Connecticut
Lemuel Haynes, Pioneer Minister
The Second Congregational Church,
Pittsfield
Samuel Harrison, Minister and Activist
(read
by Ivan Newton for WAMC Northeast
Public Radio, 2.5 MG audio file)
Samuel Harrison and
Harrison
House Photo Essay
Thomas Nelson Baker, Minister and
Philosopher
Clinton
A.
M.
E.
Zion
Church, Great Barrington
Willard
H. Durant, Pastor and Community Leader
Sources
Society, Arts and Ideas
Kinship
Guest Homes for African Americans
Entertainment and Social Life
African American Literary Societies
Robert Gilbert, Photographer and Ornithologist
The
Harlem
Renaissance
James VanDerZee, Photographer
W. E. B. Du Bois,
Native Son
Du Bois Williams,
Professor and Granddaughter of
W. E. B. Du Bois
Jacob’s Pillow
Black Children as Norman Rockwell Models
Sports
Frank Grant, Baseball Player
Billy Hart, Athlete
Larry
King, Athlete
Sources
Personal Essays
Elaine Gunn
Mae Brown
(read
by Mae E. Brown for WAMC Northeast Public Radio, 2.8 MG audio file)
Communities
Massachusetts
Dalton,
Gulf Road/Wizard’s Glen
Pittsfield
Lenox
Lee
Stockbridge
Great Barrington
W. E. B. Du Bois Photo Essay
Sheffield
Mum Bett and Ashley House
Photo Essay
Connecticut
Northwest Connecticut (Salisbury,
Norfolk (Canaan), Sharon, Cornwall, Kent, Warren)
Barkhamsted Lighthouse
Local Resources
Maps
Index
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