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Berea College

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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Berea College 1973-1975 Oral History Project Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.04
Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of twenty nine audio cassette recordings of individual interviews, group discussions, and oral presentations that document various aspects of Berea College and community history.There are transcripts for the individual interviews and notes in varying degrees of completeness for the other recordings.The memory time span of the narrators ranges mostly from the 1920s to the early 1970s. The interviews were conducted by various faculty members and...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1973-1975

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

Cassius Marcellus Clay Collection

 Collection — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3; Series 4; Series 5
Identifier: BCA 0218 HC 02
Abstract

Collection of materials by and about Cassius M. Clay.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1849 - 1975

Emily Ann Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.45
Abstract Emily Ann Smith served as a Berea College Faculty member from 1930 until 1986 which included her tenure as secretary to the President, English professor, and Chairman of the English Department. Smith, a native of Mayfield, KY, graduated from Randolph-Macon Women’s College in 1925 and Columbia Teachers College in 1930. In the summer of 1930, she moved to Berea to assume duties in the English Department as an associate professor. Smith remained a member of the English Department for forty-two...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-1987

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

Richard Sears Research Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0250
Abstract

Richard D. Sears was Professor of English and Theatre, 1967-2010, and the Chester D. Tripp Chair in Humanities at Berea College.  He has published numerous books and articles on various aspects of Kentucky history including the abolitionist movement, Camp Nelson, and Madison County.  In particular, Sears devoted many years to researching and writing about the origins of Berea College and it founding members and families.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1796-2008

Wilbur G. Burroughs Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.05
Abstract Wilbur Greeley Burroughs was born in Shortsville, New York on December 7, 1886 to Joseph B. and Emma Greeley Burroughs.  Wilbur and his younger brother, Wallace, attended Oberlin where he received his A.B. in 1909 (Phi Beta Kappa) and A.M. in 1911. Burroughs founded the Geology department at Berea College in 1920 and went on to receive his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1932. In 1927, Burroughs was elected president of the Kentucky Academy of Science. This collection consists of Burroughs...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1927-1959

William J. Hutchins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.04
Abstract Hutchins, born in 1850 and native of Brooklyn, New York, attended Oberlin College, Yale University, and Oberlin Theological Seminary. In 1896 he graduated from Union Theological Seminary and was ordained a Presbyterian minister, receiving his first pastorate at Bedford Church in Brooklyn.  Later that same year,Hutchins married Anna Laura Murch of Cleveland (whom he had met at Oberlin). In 1907, Hutchins was appointed professor of homiletics in the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology. On...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1850 - 1977; Other: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1958

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  • Subject: Madison County (Ky.) -- History. X

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Subject
Berea (Ky.) 6
Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 2
Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 2
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 2
Appalachian Region. 2
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Education, higher -- Administration 2
Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 2
Oral history -- Appalachian region. 2
Oral history interview. 2
Oral history. 2
Abolitionists 1
Abolitionists -- Kentucky -- Biography 1
African American history. 1
African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 1
Antislavery movements -- Kentucky. 1
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 1
Appalachia -- Description and travel. 1
Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions -- History. 1
Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs. 1
Berea (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 1
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Churches, Presbyterian 1
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Marriage records 1
Buffalo Creek (W. Va.) -- Flood, 1972. 1
China -- Description and travel. 1
China -- Education. 1
China -- Missionaries. 1
China -- Politics. 1
Churches, Presbyterian -- Bedford Presbyterian Church. 1
Clergy, Presbyterian -- Sermons. 1
College integration -- Kentucky -- Berea -- History -- 19th century. 1
Day Law (Kentucky). 1
Distilling, Illicit. 1
Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 1
Education, Higher -- Segregation. 1
Education, higher -- Afro-Americans. 1
Folk dancing. 1
Freedmen -- Kentucky. 1
Geography -- Study and teaching. 1
Geography. 1
Geology -- Study and teaching. 1
Geology. 1
Integration -- Berea College. 1
Kentucky Day Law. 1
Madison County (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
Maps. 1
Military installations -- World War I. 1
Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 1
Organizations, campus -- Phi Kappa Phi. 1
Rockcastle County (Ky.) -- History. 1
Rural health -- Appalachian Region. 1
Students, Afro-American -- Berea College 1
Students, college -- Berea College 1
Travel, foreign -- Missionaries. 1
White Hall (Ky.). 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Military life 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Young Men's Christian Association 1
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