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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. DUBOIS_190808_001.JPG: W.E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite
2. DUBOIS_190808_008.JPG: "Democracy is a method of realizing the broadest measure of justice..." -- W.E.B. Du Bois, Darkwater, 1920
3. DUBOIS_190808_010.JPG: W.E.B. Du Bois: Architect of the Modern Civil Rights Movement
4. DUBOIS_190808_022.JPG: "There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty."
5. DUBOIS_190808_025.JPG: Democracy and Human Rights
6. DUBOIS_190808_034.JPG: "Would America have been America without her Negro people?"
7. DUBOIS_190808_036.JPG: A Tireless Explorer of Social Truths
8. DUBOIS_190808_049.JPG: "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line..."
9. DUBOIS_190808_050.JPG: A Contribution That No Other Race Can Make
10. DUBOIS_190808_065.JPG: Boulder Dedicated to the Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois
11. DUBOIS_190808_074.JPG: "A free ballot in the hands of a free man is the one way of maintaining democracy and insuring social progress."
12. DUBOIS_190808_076.JPG: Grass Roots Democracy
13. DUBOIS_190808_084.JPG: "I had the loveliest birthday present imaginable..."
14. DUBOIS_190808_085.JPG: I Have a Sentimental Desire to Keep This Place
15. DUBOIS_190808_092.JPG: "It is the first home that I remember."
16. DUBOIS_190808_093.JPG: The House of the Black Burghardts
17. DUBOIS_190808_100.JPG: Please use the path behind you to return to the parking lot. Do not walk along the highway or cut across our neighbor's yard.
18. DUBOIS_190808_114.JPG: To Learn More About Du Bois, the W.E.B. Du Bois National Historic Site, and the Upper Housatonic Valley African American Heritage Trail
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Wikipedia Description: W.E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite
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The W.E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite (or W.E.B. Du Bois Homesite) is a National Historic Landmark in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, commemorating an important location in the life of African American intellectual and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963). The site contains foundational remnants of the home of Du Bois' grandfather, where Du Bois lived for the first five years of his life. Du Bois was given the house in 1928, and planned to renovate it, but was unable to do so. He sold it in 1954 and the house was torn down later that decade.

The site is located on South Egremont Road (state routes 23 and 41), west of the junction with Route 71. Plans to develop the site as a memorial to Du Bois in the late 1960s were delayed due to local opposition. The site's proponents attributed this in part to racism, but opposition opinions were generally expressed in terms of rejecting Du Bois' more radical politics in later life. He left the US for Ghana in 1961 and did not return. On May 11, 1976 the site was declared a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The site was donated to the state in 1987, and is administered by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

History

The Burghardt family (of Dutch origin) was present in the vicinity of Great Barrington, Massachusetts in colonial times, with documented ownership of land in the area from the 1740s. Tom Burghardt was an African-American slave of the family, and had Dutch, English, African and Native American ancestry. He likely earned his freedom by participating in the American Revolutionary War. Among his descendants was Mary Silvinia Burghardt, the mother of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (commonly referred to as W.E.B. Du Bois), born in 1868. He became a leading African American intellectual, civil rights activist, and co-founder in 1909 of the National Association for the Advancem ...More...
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