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Residents and visitors in Great Barrington in western Massachusetts will spot a welcoming new face outside Mason Public Library. After more than three years of c ommunity organizing, a monum ent to the famed civil rights activist, historian and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois has been installed in the cente r of his hometown.

This effort geared up in 2022 with a group of community members who wanted to see Du Bois honored properly in his hometown. Prior to this monument installation, Du Bois was primarily noted at the W. E. B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite, an installation located outside of downtown that denotes where his childhood home once stood. The Homesite is an important piece of history, but these organizers felt more could be d

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