Berea College -- History
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Berea College 1973-1975 Oral History Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.04
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of twenty nine audio cassette recordings of individual interviews, group discussions, and oral presentations that document various aspects of Berea College and community history.There are transcripts for the individual interviews and notes in varying degrees of completeness for the other recordings.The memory time span of the narrators ranges mostly from the 1920s to the early 1970s. The interviews were conducted by various faculty members and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1973-1975
Emily Ann Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.45
Abstract
Emily Ann Smith served as a Berea College Faculty member from 1930 until 1986 which included her tenure as secretary to the President, English professor, and Chairman of the English Department.
Smith, a native of Mayfield, KY, graduated from Randolph-Macon Women’s College in 1925 and Columbia Teachers College in 1930. In the summer of 1930, she moved to Berea to assume duties in the English Department as an associate professor. Smith remained a member of the English Department for forty-two...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-1987
Richard Sears Research Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0250
Abstract
Richard D. Sears was Professor of English and Theatre, 1967-2010, and the Chester D. Tripp Chair in Humanities at Berea College. He has published numerous books and articles on various aspects of Kentucky history including the abolitionist movement, Camp Nelson, and Madison County. In particular, Sears devoted many years to researching and writing about the origins of Berea College and it founding members and families.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1796-2008
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- Subject: Madison County (Ky.) -- History. X
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- Berea (Ky.) 2
- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 2
- Abolitionists -- Kentucky -- Biography 1
- African American history. 1
- Antislavery movements -- Kentucky. 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 1
- College integration -- Kentucky -- Berea -- History -- 19th century. 1
- Folk dancing. 1
- Freedmen -- Kentucky. 1
- Madison County (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 1
- Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 1
- Oral history interview. 1
- Oral history. 1
- Rockcastle County (Ky.) -- History. 1 + ∧ less
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