W.E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite, Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Off the Grid September/October 2020

Burghardt family home, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, ca. 1933
(Courtesy of the Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries, 1933)
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(Ken Feisel)

Off of Route 41 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a trail leads visitors around the childhood home of W.E.B. Du Bois, the African American author, scholar, activist, and cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Born in Great Barrington on February 23, 1868, Du Bois witnessed and chronicled the journey of African Americans through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the early Civil Rights movement. As editor of The Crisis magazine, he penned essays

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