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Celebrate
Du Bois:
a 20th Century Activist Continues the Freedom
Struggle
Sunday February 24,
2008
Great Barrington, Massachusetts |
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12:30 PM - Lunch Program
- Masonic Temple, Great Barrington (UGR Conference participants only)
Threads of the Black Community in South Berkshire since the 1750s
Bernard A. Drew, Local historian, Great Barrington
The Underground Railroad in South Berkshire
County and Jacob's Pillow
Mrs. Elaine S. Gunn, 1968 Du Bois Memorial
Committee and Barbara Bartle, Adjunct Professor, Berkshire Community
College
2:30-4:30 PM - W E B Du Bois Birthday
Celebration Program - Clinton AME Zion Church
Free Blacks in Berkshire County
A moderated discussion on free Blacks in Berkshire County from Mum
Bett's successful suit for liberty through the twentieth century
Introductory Remarks
From Mum Bett's freedom to the 20th C: The challenges free Blacks faced
in spite of emancipation
Dr. Frances Jones-Sneed, Professor, Massachusetts College of Liberal
Arts
The Relationship of Freed Slaves and Col. John
Ashley in the late 1790s
Bernard A. Drew, Local historian, Great Barrington
Agrippa Hull and the Gunn Family
Mrs. Elaine S. Gunn, 1968 Du Bois Memorial Committee
The Black Burghardts: W. E. B. Du Bois's
maternal ancestry
Dr. Robert Paynter, Professor of Anthropology, UMASS of Amherst
Warren H. Davis, entrepreneur
Wray Gunn, Trustee, Clinton A. M. E. Zion Church
Rev. Samuel Harrison's 25 years in Pittsfield
Ivan Newton, Church Historian, Second Congregational Church, Pittsfield
(invited)
Refreshments to follow.
Upper Housatonic Valley
African American Heritage Trail
info@AfricanAmericanTrail.org
www.AfricanAmericanTrail.org
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