“John Lewis would be at the forefront of these protests, and he would help organize everything because not only did he fight for voting rights, but he fought for human dignity,” Great Barrington event co-organizer Jeffrey Schneider told The Berkshire Edge.
In 2015, Pops Peterson debuted his “Reinventing Rockwell” photography series, which received an award from the Northeast Regional Conference on Fair Housing and Civil Rights and led to him being named the first artist in residence of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.
Whitney Battle-Baptiste, director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Center and associate professor of anthropology at UMass Amherst, will be the keynote speaker at the fourth annual NAACP - Berkshire County Branch Freedom Awards dinner.
