LOCAL SITES FOR THE STUDY OF
REGIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area
The
Shaping Role of Place in African American Biography
(Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts)
The
Ashley House, The Trustees of Reservations
Samuel
Harrison Society
W.
E. B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite
W.
E. B. Du Bois Special Collections, University of Massachusetts Amherst
W.
E. B. Du Bois River Garden, Housatonic River Walk
W.
E. B. Du Bois Global Resource Collection
Du
Bois and Great Barrington
LOCAL RESOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF
REGIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Arrowhead, Pittsfield
Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield
Available:
"Americans of African Descent: An Annotated Bibliography of
Berkshire County, Massachusetts and Some Connecticut &
New York Historical References Through the Civil War Period."
Compiled by Emilie S. Piper. Pittsfield: Berkshire Athenaeum, Local
History Department, 2005. Call 413-499-9486.
Berkshire
Historical Society, Pittsfield
Berkshire
Publishing Group, Great Barrington
Connecticut
Historical Society, Hartford
Connecticut
State Library
Cornwall
Historical Society
Falls
Village-Canaan Historical Society
Freel
Library, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams
Great
Barrington Historical Society
House of Local History, Williamstown
Kent
Historical Society
Lee
Library
Litchfield
Historical Society
Mason Library, Great Barrington
Norfolk
Historical Society
Sharon
Historical Society
Sheffield Historical Society
Simon's Rock College Library,
Great Barrington
W. E. B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Special Collections
W. E.
B. Du Bois Resource Collection and Directory
Williams College: Sawyer Library, Chapin Library, and Williams College Archives
RESOURCES BEYOND THE UPPER
HOUSATONIC VALLEY
Museum of African
American History (Boston)
Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture (Harlem)
National Center of
Afro-American Artists
(NCAAA)
(Boston)
Discover
Roxbury (Boston area)
Royall
House and Slave Quarters (Medford, Massachusetts)
Connecticut
Freedom Trail
Gilder
Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition
(New Haven)
Smithsonian
National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Left to Right:
Sadie and Sylvester Gunn; James VanDerZee women c. 1909;
five generations of Persips; four generations of Pattersons,
Gilmores, Marshalls and Rollisons |
Photos Left to Right: Courtesy of
Wray Gunn; photograph by James VanDerZee copyright Donna Mussenden
VanDerZee; Mrs. Frances Persip Duval; John Garrett and Ann Rollison
Penn collections
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