Berea College
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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
Brushy Fork Institute
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.4
Abstract
These are the official records of the Brushy Fork Institute.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1988-
Perley F. Ayer Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0022 SAA 021
Abstract
Perley F. Ayer, a native of New Hampshire, was educated at the University of New Hampshire (B.S.1922) and Cornell University (M.S. 1947). Prior to coming to Berea in 1947, he had been employed as an extension agent in New Hampshire and as an instructor at Pleasant Hill Academy in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee. He worked at Berea College as supervisor of an agricultural training program in the Foundation School, as a field representative for the Admissions office, and as an instructor in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1952-1968
William Goodell Frost Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.03
Abstract
Frost, a native of LeRoy, New York, was an 1876 graduate of Oberlin College and taught Greek at him alma materfrom 1876 through 1892. Having refused the presidency of Berea College in 1889, Frost reconsidered theappointment after the resignation of William B. Stewart. Frost was inaugurated in 1892 and served as presidentuntil 1920. Frost is credited with being chiefly responsible for the significant growth of Berea College during thisperiod. His term saw enrollment rise from 350 in 1912 to...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860 - 1955; Other: Majority of material found in 1860-1894
Willis D. Weatherford, Sr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.56
Abstract
Willis D. Weatherford, Sr., was president of the Blue Ridge Assembly, Black Mountain, N.C., 1906-1944; president of the Y.M.C.A. Graduate School, Nashville, 1919-1946; trustee of Berea College, Berea, Ky., 1916-ca. 1962; faculty member of Fisk University, 1936-1946; director of the Southern Appalachian Studies Project, 1956-1968; and lifelong student of race relations in the South.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1915-1970
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- Subject: Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. X
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- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 4
- Appalachian Region. 4
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 2
- Berea (Ky.) 2
- Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region -- History 1
- Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Periodicals. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Buffalo Creek (W. Va.) -- Flood, 1972. 1
- Community leadership. 1
- Distilling, Illicit. 1
- Education -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 1
- Education, higher -- Administration 1
- Kentucky Day Law. 1
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Medical care -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Minorities -- Education -- United States. 1
- Mountain Life and Work 1
- Nonprofit organizations -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 1
- Oral history interview. 1
- Oral history. 1
- Public health -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Rural health -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Social Action -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Social service -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Southern States -- Race relations. 1
- War on poverty. 1 + ∧ less
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