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COMING EVENTS
Help put W.E.B. Du Bois on a US Quarter
Cast your vote to feature the WEB Du Bois Homesite
on the back of the US quarter for the US Mint.
Click: Vote
for Quarter
www.mass.gov/?pageID=gov3utilities&sid=Agov3&U=quarters_program
or go to:
www.mass.gov
And search for "Vote for the New Quarter" under News and
Updates / More….
Find William E.B. Du Bois, Boyhood Homesite, Great Barrington (Berkshire County)
Cast your Vote! The deadline is Feb 26, 2009 "Celebrating Community: Pittsfield's African-American Heritage"
Opening Reception Saturday February 14,
2009 1 pm-4pm
Exhibition celebrating Pittsfield's African-American culture and heritage.
"Celebrating Community: Pittsfield's African-American Heritage" will be on display
at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts in downtown Pittsfield from Wednesday, Feb. 11, through Sunday, March 8.
An opening reception will be held Saturday, Feb. 14, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., and is free and open to the public.
Contact www.culturalpittsfield.com <http://www.culturalpittsfield.com/> or
413.499.9348.
Du Bois Birthday Celebration, Saturday
February 21, 2009, 2:30 pm
Clinton AME Zion Church, Great Barrington
Upper Housatonic Valley African American Heritage Trail
New Developments
Rev. Samuel Harrison House Restoration in Pittsfield
Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman New Research
A Memorial for W.E.B. Du Bois: the Boyhood Homesite
Presentation on the National Landmark in Great Barrington
The Gospel Choir
Price Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Refreshments
Contact Wray Gunn, Trustee, 413-229-2668, wraygunn@msn.com
UMASS Amherst Libraries 15th Annual Du Bois Lecture
by Howard Dodson,
Thursday, February 26 2009, 6:30 pm
Special Collections Reading Room, Floor 25, Du Bois Library, UMass Amherst.
Howard Dodson is the Chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.
Contact Robert Cox, Special Collections and University Archives, (413) 545-6842 or rscox@library.umass.edu.
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W. E. B. Du
Bois Boyhood Homesite (House of the Black Burghardts)
and the W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Committee |
Photos: Special Collections and
Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Don Victor.
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