WEB Dubois Boyhood Homesite
| WEB Dubois Boyhood Homesite | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
| National Historic Landmark | |||
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| location | Great Barrington , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 10 '42 " N , 73 ° 23' 37" W | ||
| surface | 5 acres (2 ha ) | ||
| NRHP number | 76000947 | ||
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| The NRHP added | May 11, 1976 | ||
| Declared as an NHL | May 11, 1976 | ||
The remains of the youth home of the African-American civil rights activist W. EB Du Bois and the adjacent property are registered as a National Historic Landmark in the National Register of Historic Places under the name WEB Dubois Boyhood Homesite . The site is located approximately two miles west of Great Barrington north of Massachusetts Route 23 in the state of Massachusetts in the United States .
description
The 2 hectare property consists mainly of forest, has a U-shaped floor plan and encloses another privately owned property (area "E" in the map), which is not included in the NRHP entry. Of the building itself, only a few foundation walls, the chimney and the cellar have been preserved (area “D” in the map). At position “A” there is a parking lot, at position “B” there is an information board and at position “C” there is a memorial stone erected in 1969.
Historical meaning
Born in 1868 Du Bois was one of the most influential African Americans of his time, who stood up for the rights of black people in the United States and especially as founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as co-founder of the People (NAACP) and Niagara Movements known has been. He was also editor of The Crisis magazine , through which he made the work of the NAACP available to a wide audience. He was the first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard University and published more than 20 books and several hundred articles.
In 1963 he took on the Ghanaian citizenship and died on August 27 of the same year in Accra , where he is also buried.
See also
- List of entries on the National Register of Historic Places in Berkshire County
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts
literature
- Lynne Gomez Graves: National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form. (PDF) United States Department of the Interior , National Park Service , October 30, 1975, accessed December 23, 2017 .
Web links
- Official website
- Documentation of archaeological excavations from the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Individual evidence
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Massachusetts. National Park Service , accessed August 10, 2019.
- ↑ cf. Graves, p. 2.
- ↑ cf. Graves, p. 3.
- ↑ cf. Graves, p. 5.