American Friends Service Committee.
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Prince Edward County Students at Berea collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.39
Abstract
This small study collection contains information about a 1959-1965 American Friends Service Committee program that helped African American students from Prince Edward County, Virginia, continue their education while their local public schools were shut down. The closure of all public schools in Prince Edward County was an attempt to avoid school desegregation as required by the 1954 United States Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. Berea...
Dates:
1959 - 2005
Reports and field notes: American Friends Service Committee, bulk: 1923
File — Box 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Includes: "An Interim Report on Child Relief in the Bituminous Coal Fields" (No. C-2, undated); Field Notes: Coal Relief Section, January 20, 1932; Field Notes: Coal Relief Section, March 3, 1932; Field Notes: Coal Relief Section, March 18, 1932; Field Notes: Coal Relief Section, March 2,4 1932; Field Notes: Coal Relief Section, April 7, 1932
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1923
Willis D. Weatherford, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.06
Abstract
Official and personal papers of Willis D. Weatherford, Jr., sixth president of Berea College.
Dates:
1966 - 1996