Berea College -- History
Organization
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
Berea College Vertical Files
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0254
Scope and Contents
This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials produced by non-Berea College entities about the history and events of Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1900-2000
Berea College Womens Basketball Oral History Collection, 2008
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.09
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of audio compact disc recordings and transcripts of sixteen interviews recorded by Tom Chase in 2008. (Click on the red Digital Object icon to hear recordings and read transcripts.) Interviews are mostly with women who played varsity (intercollegiate) basketball at Berea College during the program's first three decades (early 1960s to 2008). The exceptions are three Berea College faculty members who coached and taught physical education (Martha Beagle, Mark...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 2008
Children of God Oratorio Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.01
Abstract
Children of God: An Oratorio on the Brotherhood of Man is a major choral work commissioned in 1956 by Berea College and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America (NCC). A specially created Berea College Oratorio Choir first performed the work the following year in two significant events: Part I only was presented on both Feb. 1 and 2, 1957 at the Cincinnati Music Hall,with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and guest soloists, Thor Johnson conducting. The...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1953-1980
Elisabeth Sinclair Peck Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.35
Abstract
Elisabeth Sinclair Peck joined the Berea College faculty in 1912 and taught history until her retirement in 1953. Upon her retirement, she was appointed college historian by President Weatherford. She served in this role until her death in 1968. A prolific writer, Peck published numerous books on a range of topics—many involving the history and work of Berea College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1912-1968
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
George Candee Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 01-1.04
Abstract
These are the papers of George Candee who is associated with the founding and early history of Berea College.
Dates:
1860-1920
George Gillespie Dick Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.13
Abstract
George Gillespie Dick was born in Ross, Ohio, Buckley County on August 6, 1877. Dick first came to the city of Berea and Berea Academy as a student in 1900. In
1901, Dick served with the College Extension Office as a lecturer and song leader for and around Louisa, Kentucky. At that time extension workers traveled by mule and covered wagon. In the fall of 1902 the college sent Dick to Cincinnati, Ohio, to attend engineering classes at Cincinnati University. Dick returned to the...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1938-1961
Histories of Berea College
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.15
Scope and Contents
Histories of Berea College, including a few personal accounts, written by various individuals including many who worked or studied at the College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1853-2002
Jacob Emerick Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 01-1.11
Abstract
These are the papers of Jacob Emerick who is associated with the founding and early history of the College.
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
James Davis Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 01-1.12
Abstract
These are the papers of James Davis who is associated with the founding and early history of the College.
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
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- Berea (Ky.) 7
- Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 7
- Oral history. 7
- Oral history interview. 5
- Students, college -- Berea College 4
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 3
- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 3
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 3
- Antislavery movements -- Kentucky. 2
- Basketball -- Kentucky -- Berea. 2
- Civil rights -- United States -- History. 2
- Abolitionists 1
- Abolitionists -- Kentucky -- Biography 1
- African American history. 1
- African American women. 1
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- History. 1
- African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky. 1
- African Americans -- Segregation. 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Demography. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Race relations. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Academy School 1
- Bible in music -- History. 1
- Church music -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Church music -- Protestant churches. 1
- College integration -- Kentucky -- Berea -- History -- 19th century. 1
- Disarmament. 1
- Drama -- Production and direction. 1
- Folk dancing. 1
- Freedmen -- Kentucky. 1
- Hymns -- Metrics and rhythmics. 1
- Madison County (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Montgomery (Ala.). 1
- Navy V-12 Program (U.S.) -- History. 1
- Navy V-12 Program (U.S.). 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 1
- Oratorios. 1
- Revival hymns -- History and criticism. 1
- Revival hymns. 1
- Rockcastle County (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Rural-urban migration -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Selma (Ala.). 1
- Slavery and the church. 1
- Sociology. 1
- Southern States -- Race relations. 1
- Student activities. 1
- Student newspapers and periodicals -- United States. 1
- Students -- Political activity. 1
- Suffrage. 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs. 1
- Women basketball players -- Berea College -- Interviews 1 + ∧ less
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