Interpretive Exhibit Design for a New African American Visitor and Cultural Center at the Historic Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church in Great Barrington, MA

FAIN: BP-271466-20

Clinton Church Restoration, Inc. (Great Barrington, MA 01230-6075)
Frances Jones-Sneed (Project Director: January 2020 to January 2024)
David Glassberg (Project Director: January 2024 to present)

Development of an exhibition and interpretive center focused on the role of Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church and the African American experience in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, as well as the impact of the Clinton Church on W.E.B. Du Bois.

Clinton Church Restoration (CCR) is requesting a Public Humanities Projects Planning Grant in the Historic Places category to design interpretive exhibits for an African American heritage site and cultural center. The project is part of CCR’s initiative to preserve, restore, and adaptively reuse the historic Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church in Great Barrington, a town in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts that was the hometown of civil rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois.