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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Allen Wright Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.60
Abstract

Wright was the chair of Natural History at Berea College from 1870 to 1872. A few years after leaving Berea, he would be appointed professor of Geology and Natural History at Oberlin College.  While at Berea College, Wright also served as the faculty meeting clerk. On September 21, 1874, he married Mary Lyon Bedortha (1846-1877), of Saratoga Springs, New York.  Professor Albert Allen Wright died April 2, 1905.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1870-1871

Henry Levy Parker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.34
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...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1968-1979

March on Frankfort

 Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.30
Abstract

On Thursday, March 5, 1964, 170 Berea students and 30 faculty and townspeople joined approximately 10,000 other demonstrators for a March on Frankfort. At the March, demonstrators listened to speeches by Frank Stanley Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson, D.E. King, and Ralph Abernathy. Speakers pleaded for the Governor Breathitt and state legislature to consider seriously the House-sponsored Public Accomodations Bill.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1964

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