Berea College
Organization
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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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- African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky. 4
- Berea (Ky.) 4
- Students, college -- Berea College 4
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 3
- Appalachian Region. 3
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights. 2
- African Americans. 2
- Appalachian Region -- Race relations. 2
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 2
- Civil rights movements. 2
- Kentucky Day Law. 2
- African American history. 1
- African American women. 1
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- Folklore. 1
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions. 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. 1
- African Americans -- Education -- Southern States. 1
- African Americans -- Segregation. 1
- African Americans -- Study and teaching. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Demography. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region -- History 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
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Mathematics -- Study and teaching. 1
- Minorities -- Education -- United States. 1
- Music -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 1
- Oral history interview. 1
- Oral history. 1
- Race relations. 1
- Rural health -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Rural-urban migration -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Science -- Study and Teaching 1
- Storytelling -- Appalachian Region 1
- String band music -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Students -- Political activity. 1
- Students, Afro-American -- Berea College 1
- Women college students 1 + ∧ less
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