New W. E. B. Du Bois exhibit highlights a Berkshires-grown ‘global citizen’
It reads like a who’s who of American history. The list of important people W. E. B. Du Bois corresponded with includes presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, German novelist Thomas Mann, former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, American novelist William Faulkner and perhaps the most famous scientist of all time, Albert Einstein.