Berea College
Organization
Found in 3 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.
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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.
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Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1989
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
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- Subject
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Appalachian Region. 2
- Berea (Ky.) 2
- African American women. 1
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- History. 1
- African Americans -- Segregation. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Demography. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region -- History 1
- Appalachian Region -- Race relations. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 1
- Buffalo Creek (W. Va.) -- Flood, 1972. 1
- Distilling, Illicit. 1
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 1
- Education, higher -- Administration 1
- Kentucky Day Law. 1
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Minorities -- Education -- United States. 1
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 1
- Oral history interview. 1
- Oral history. 1
- Rural health -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Rural-urban migration -- Appalachian Region. 1 + ∧ less
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