wingoorks for the elizabeth freeman center, which offers services to domestic violence survivors. he manages their work in great barrington, the town where he grew up. >> growing up around here was complicated. you sort , like, as a person of color in an area like this that's predominantly white, you have to have, like, a different set of survival skills almost, like, socially. and i think the first time i really noticed that, like, it mattered at all, was, like, in fourth grade, you know? like, we're at recess and i, like, get in a fight with a kid over, like, kickball or something totallyidiculous. and you know, he called me a ( bleep ). that's when i sat down and had, like, the first talk, like, with my parents about, like, how some people are-- are racist and, like, that is a fact. >> reporter: black people make up only a little more than 3.5% of the population in the berkshires, but the county has been home to some significant figures in black history. wingo's organization is the namesake of elizabeth freeman, the first enslaved person to win her freedom under the massachuset

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