Berea College
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
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.
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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
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 -
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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- Berea (Ky.) 4
- Appalachian Region. 3
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 2
- African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky. 2
- African Americans. 2
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 2
- African American women. 1
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- History. 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. 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 College -- Buildings -- Fairchild Hall 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Howard Hall 1
- Bluegrass music. 1
- Buffalo Creek (W. Va.) -- Flood, 1972. 1
- Civil rights -- Madison County (Ky). 1
- Distilling, Illicit. 1
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 1
- Education, higher -- Administration 1
- Fiddle tunes -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Fiddle tunes. 1
- Folk and music festivals. 1
- Folk music -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Kentucky Day Law. 1
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Minorities -- Education -- United States. 1
- Music -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 1
- Oral history interview. 1
- Oral history. 1
- Rural health -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Rural-urban migration -- Appalachian Region. 1
- String band music -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Students -- Political activity. 1
- Students, Afro-American -- Berea College 1
- Students, college -- Berea College 1
- Women college students 1 + ∧ less
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