Upper Housatonic Valley African American Heritage Trail - Northeast African American Historic Places Map (sitios de interés)
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| Sites in Western Massachusetts and Northwestern Connecticut | | ||
About: The African American Heritage trail (AAHT) 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 are the W. E. B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite, a National Landmark property in Great Barrington; the Samuel Harrison House in Pittsfield, home of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment chaplain who protested discriminatory pay practices; and a center at the Col. Ashley House in Sheffield to study Elizabeth 'Mumbet' Freeman and other South Berkshire County African Americans.
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 Church outing by Rev. Chauncey Hatfield of the Clinton A. M. E. Zion Church in Great Barrington, c. 1894-96Photo courtesy of Gary Leveille Collection at Great Barrington Historical Society. Text courtesy of Upper Housatonic African American Heritage Trail. |
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