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Berea College

 Organization

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

A.A. Burleigh Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.06
Scope and Contents

These are the papers of A.A. Burleigh, one of the first African Americans to attend and graduate from Berea College.  Materials include biographical information, correspondence, pension applications, medical and death records, and additional print material.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1867-1938

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

Blacks at Berea

 Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.07
Scope and Contents

A collection of materials documenting the history of blacks at Berea College as well as race relations at the College. Materials include clippings, notes, writings, correspondence, College memorandum and notices, and other.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1836-1972

Lincoln Institute collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.29
Abstract The Lincoln Institute was an all-black boarding high school in Simpsonville, Kentucky, near Louisville, that operated from 1912 to 1966. The school was created by the trustees of Berea College after the Kentucky State Legislature passed the Day Law (1904) putting an end to the racially integrated education at Berea that had existed since the end of the Civil War. The founders originally intended the institute to be a college as well as a high school, but by the 1930s it gave up its junior...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1905 - 2023

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