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Berea College

 Organization

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Berea Community Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0181-HC 06
Abstract The Berea Community Collection is comprised of archival materials collected by college librarians as a part of the Berea City Vertical Files. This collection, with its wealth of local history, was removed from the vertical files in order to further preserve and arrange the materials as a working collection.      Background information and local history have been preserved in the form of business ledgers, organizational minutes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, audio recorded...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1810 - 1964

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

March on Frankfort

 Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.30
Abstract

On Thursday, March 5, 1964, 170 Berea students and 30 faculty and townspeople joined approximately 10,000 other demonstrators for a March on Frankfort. At the March, demonstrators listened to speeches by Frank Stanley Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson, D.E. King, and Ralph Abernathy. Speakers pleaded for the Governor Breathitt and state legislature to consider seriously the House-sponsored Public Accomodations Bill.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1964

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