Portrait of Elizabeth 'Mumbet' Freeman (c.1742-1829) 1811

Upper Housatonic Valley 
African American Heritage Trail
Advisory Council

Chairpersons

Rachel Fletcher, Trustee, 
Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area

Frances Jones Sneed, Professor, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

Barbara Allen, Curator, 
Stockbridge Library Association Historical Collection

Ann-Elizabeth Barnes, Historic Site Interpreter, African American Heritage Trail

Ellen Broderick, Former teacher and
W.E.B. Du Bois Curriculum Director, Berkshire Country Day School

Brian Burke, President, Great Barrington Historical Society

Chris Coggins, Professor, Simon's Rock College of Bard

Richard Courage, Professor of English, 
Westchester Community College-SUNY

Susan Denault, Reference Librarian and Archivist, 
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

Barbara Dowling, Historic Site Administrator, Western Region, 
The Trustees of Reservations

Esther Dozier, Pastor, Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church, Great Barrington, deceased

Bernard Drew, Local historian, Great Barrington

David Graham Du Bois, 
Founding President and CEO, W.E.B. Du Bois Foundation, Inc.,  
UMass professor of Journalism/Afro-American Studies, deceased

Willard H. Durant, Former Pastor, 
Price Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church, Pittsfield

Shirley Edgerton, Director 
Youth Alive and Women of Color Giving Circle of Berkshire

Will Garrison, Historic Resources Manager, 
Western Region, The Trustees of Reservations

Elaine S. Gunn, 1968 Du Bois Memorial Committee

Wray M. Gunn, President, Sheffield Historical Society

John A. James, Architect, Sheffield

Evelyn Jeffers, UMASS of Amherst, W.E.B. Du Bois Foundation

James King, Professor of African American Studies, 
Simon’s Rock College

David Levinson, Principal, 
Berkshire Publishing Group LLC, Great Barrington

Homer Meade, National Evaluation Systems, 
Berkshire Country Day School

James Miller, Sheffield Historical Society

MaryNell Morgan, Professor,  SUNY – Empire State College
Former Sterling A. Brown '22 Visiting Professor, Williams College

Nancy Muller, Professor, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

Ivan Newton, Historian, Second Congregational Church, Pittsfield

Jonathan Olly, National Heritage Museum, Lexington, MA

Robert Paynter, Professor of Anthropology, UMASS of Amherst

Emilie Piper, Local Historian, Berkshire Athenaeum

Cora Portnoff, Sheffield Historical Society

Thomas Shachtman, Trustee, 
Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area

Betsy Sherman, President, Board of Trustees 
Berkshire Historical Society

Linda M. Tyer, City Councilor – Ward 3, Pittsfield; President, Samuel Harrison Society

Claudette Webster, Fellow, African American Biography Curriculum Project

Randy Weinstein, Director,
The Du Bois Center of American History, Great Barrington

Megan P. Whilden, Director, Office of Cultural Development, Pittsfield

Alex Willingham, Professor of Political Science, Williams College

Photo: © Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston MA USA