A well-earned celebration of Great Barrington’s Du Bois
President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and the Reverend Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream Speech” in 1963 were in a sense bookends to a tumultuous century for African-Americans, one marked by great progress and terrible disappointments. W.E.B. Du Bois, born in Great Barrington, was alive for all but five years of that period, and he was a critical player in it as both a chronicler of the African-American experience and a shaper of that experience.
