Berea College -- Campus Christian Center

Scope and Contents Follow links in the recordings box list to listen to interviews and read interview transcripts. This collection is comprised of interviews tracing the development of religious life activities and programs at Berea College especially in relationship to the establishment of the position of Campus Minister and the Campus Christian Center.The memory time span of the interviewees ranges from 1930 through 1988, the time of the then most recent interview. The collection consists of audio...

Abstract The first African-American Campus Minister at Berea College, Henry Levy Parker committed much of his career to bettering the lives of communities in the South and as a proponent of social change. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1921, Parker received the Bachelor of Arts from Gordon College in 1949. He attended Harvard Divinity School from 1952 to 1955. He was ordained as a minister in the Episcopal Church, first as a deacon in 1955 and then a priest in 1957. He went on to pastor Episcopal...