Berea College
Organization
Found in 15 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
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
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
Francis and Louise Hutchins Center for International Education (CIE)
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.54
Abstract
Records and materials of the Francis and Louise Hutchins Center for International Education on the Berea College campus.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1956-
Extension Services Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.45
Abstract
Berea College's Extension Services provided short-term, informal educational programming and services, primarily in adult education, both on and off campus, to persons living in communities around Berea (including the mountain regions as far away as West Virginia). Programming included Opportunity Schools (held both on campus and in other communities), lectures, and the publication of pamphlets, bulletins and leaflets on a variety of topics.
Information regarding the Berea Opportunity...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1898-1958
Florence Ridgeway Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.39
Abstract
Born in 1876, Florence Ridgeway attended Berea College from 1905-1907 before obtaining a degree from the Western Reserve University of Library Science in 1909. Upon receiving her library science degree, she returned to Berea where she worked as an assistant librarian at the Berea College library for over twenty-three years. She was a pioneer in librarianship working with others to compile Berea's "Mountain Collection" (the first of its kind in the United States) and instituting Kentucky's...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1919-1929
Francis S. Hutchins Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.05
Abstract
Francis Stephenson Hutchins (b. 1902), a native of Northfield, Massachusetts, was educated at Oberlin College (A.B., 1923) and Yale University (M.A., 1933). Having worked in China as an undergraduate, Hutchins returned to China as an instructor in 1925 as part of the Yale-in-China Association's educational mission. Forced to leave China in 1939 during the Japanese invasion, Hutchins was appointed president of Berea College to succeed his father—William J. Hutchins. Hutchins served as...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1924-1979
Health and Human Performance Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.32
Abstract
Records of the Health and Human Performance Department (previously Physical Education and Health) at Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1914-
J.O. Van Hook Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.51
Abstract
Joseph O. Van Hook was raised in Pulaski County, Kentucky and began teaching in a one-room school house in 1909. He came to Berea in 1910 and earned two diplomas from the Normal School. He served as an Army corporal during World War I and spent four years following the war teaching in China at the Shanghai American School (1921-1925). He then returned to Berea College, earning three Bachelor of Arts degrees by 1926. He also earned a Master of Arts degree from the University of Kentucky in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1855 - 1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1958
Lincoln Institute collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.29
Abstract
The Lincoln Institute was an all-black boarding high school in Simpsonville, Kentucky, near Louisville, that operated from 1912 to 1966. The school was created by the trustees of Berea College after the Kentucky State Legislature passed the Day Law (1904) putting an end to the racially integrated education at Berea that had existed since the end of the Civil War. The founders originally intended the institute to be a college as well as a high school, but by the 1930s it gave up its junior...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1905 - 2023
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