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Berea College

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Found in 13 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

African and African-American Studies Department

 Collection — RG 6 Box 2 Oversized
Identifier: RG 06-6.44
Abstract

Records of the African and African-American Studies Department at Berea College.

Dates: Other: Dummy Date

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

Berea College 1973 Appalachian Oral History Project Collection (January Short Term)

 Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.03
Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of audio recorded interviews conducted by Berea College students as part of a January 1973 short term History 190 course taught by Dr. Richard Drake. Listen To Interviews Interview topics include: moonshining in Perry County (KY), early medical practices and services in Clay County...
Dates: Other: 1973

Berea College Blacks in Appalachia Symposium Collection, 1989

 Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.07
Scope and Contents This collection is comprised of recordings documenting the event "Blacks in Appalachia - From Invisibility to Importance: A Symposium, Seminar, and Celebration" held at Berea College, May 19-20, 1989.  The event marked the establishment of the Goode Professorship of Black and Appalachian Studies at Berea College. View Video...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1989

Berea College Science Focus Program

 Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.08
Abstract

Starting in 1987, the Science Focus Program at Berea College enabled the College both to identify African American high school sophomores with ability in science and/or mathematics and to instruct and guide them in their preparation to enter college in science related fields.  Program participants spent four weeks on campus in an intensive educational experience and working in the College's labor program. The program appears to have run through 1999.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1987 - 1999

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

Celebration of Traditional Music

 Collection — 6.12 Oversized Posters
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.5
Abstract

Records documenting the Celebration of Traditional Music, an annual event striving to represent homemade music passed on from person to person in the Appalachian Region and the musicians who play it.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1974 -

Committee for the March on Montgomery

 Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.29
Abstract On Thursday, March 25, 1965, fifty-eight Berea College student, faculty and staff joined 25,000 other demonstrators in the last phase of the March on Montgomery from Selma, Alabama. The trip made by students and other members of the college was neither officially recognized by the College or endorsed by the Student Association Senate. Berea's participation in the march was organized by a committee of students which organized in response to a controversial letter from the Associate Dean of...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1965-1989; Other: Majority of material found in 1965

Fifth National Festival of Black Storytelling Collection, 1987

 Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.06
Scope and Contents This collection contains video recordings documenting the Fifth National Festival of Black Storytelling held at Berea College, November 12-14, 1987. Features of the event included concurrent storytelling sessions for various ages, the Second National Liars Contest, an informal "Swapping Ground" for storytellers, and scholarly lectures on the status of blacks in Appalachia.Among the fifteen master storytellers participating in the festival were Mary Carter Smith and Linda...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1987

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Kentucky Day Law. 2
African American history. 1
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African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- Folklore. 1
African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions. 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. 1
African Americans -- Education -- Southern States. 1
African Americans -- Segregation. 1
African Americans -- Study and teaching. 1
Appalachian Region -- Demography. 1
Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 1
Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions -- History. 1
Appalachian Region -- History 1
Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 1
Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs. 1
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Berea College -- Buildings -- Fairchild Hall 1
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Bluegrass music. 1
Buffalo Creek (W. Va.) -- Flood, 1972. 1
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Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 1
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