Great Barrington is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 7,172 at the 2020 census. B
View from Main Street in the spring
Print of Great Barrington from 1884 by L.R. Burleigh, with listing of landmarks
Civil War Monument, in front of the town hall
Railroad Street, where many restaurants and business are located
W. E. B. Du Bois
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, writer, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tole
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
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Du Bois in 1907
The title page of Du Bois's Harvard dissertation, Suppression of the African Slave Trade in the United States of America: 1638–1871
Du Bois in 1904
Founders of the Niagara Movement in 1905. Du Bois is in the middle row, with white hat.