Great Barrington— On Saturday, July 19th at 2 p.m., a life-size sculpture of W.E.B. Du Bois will be unveiled in front of the Mason Public Library, located at 231 Main Street, a fitting site at the heart of Du Bois’s hometown. 

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was born and educated in Great Barrington. He was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. A world-famous sociologist, historian, and founder of the NAACP, he wrote “The Souls of Black Folk,” a seminal work in African American literature.

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