Berea College
Organization
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
Berea College Appalachian Museum Oral History Collection, 1975-1980
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.12
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of interviews recorded between 1975 and 1980 documenting a wide variety of Appalachian traditional crafts, occupations, and expressive culture from areas of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.Listen To Interviews, Read Transcripts, View Photographs The...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1975 - 1980
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
Berea College Campus Ministry Oral History Collection, 1983-1988
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.14
Scope and Contents
Follow links in the recordings box list to listen to interviews and read interview transcripts. This collection is comprised of interviews tracing the development of religious life activities and programs at Berea College especially in relationship to the establishment of the position of Campus Minister and the Campus Christian Center.The memory time span of the interviewees ranges from 1930 through 1988, the time of the then most recent interview. The collection consists of audio...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1983 - 1988
Brushy Fork Institute
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.4
Abstract
These are the official records of the Brushy Fork Institute.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1988-
Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.57
Abstract
In 2011, the Berea College Board of Trustees authorized the establishment of the Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education. In keeping with the desires of the Board of Trustees and the mission of Berea College founders, it is the goal of the Center to strive to align external campus norms with the College’s internal and historic commitment to interracial education so they function in a mutually supportive manner. It is therefore the mission of the Carter G. Woodson Center for...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2013-
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 -
Children of God Oratorio Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.01
Abstract
Children of God: An Oratorio on the Brotherhood of Man is a major choral work commissioned in 1956 by Berea College and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America (NCC). A specially created Berea College Oratorio Choir first performed the work the following year in two significant events: Part I only was presented on both Feb. 1 and 2, 1957 at the Cincinnati Music Hall,with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and guest soloists, Thor Johnson conducting. The...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1953-1980
E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0021 SAA 020
Abstract
The E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund was incorporated June 27, 1922, by Edward O. Robinson, Frederick W. Mowbray, Edward C. O'Rear, and W.H. Hyden. That year Robinson had retired from the presidency of the Mowbray-Robinson Lumber Company in Cincinnati, where he had made a fortune in the World War I lumber boom.
Robinson and Mowbray entered the lumber business in 1908 with the purchase of approximately 16,000 acres of timberland in eastern Kentucky's Breathitt, Knott, and Perry counties. ...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1922-1978
Fifth National Festival of Black Storytelling Collection, 1987
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.06
Scope and Contents
This collection contains video recordings documenting the Fifth National Festival of Black Storytelling held at Berea College, November 12-14, 1987. Features of the event included concurrent storytelling sessions for various ages, the Second National Liars Contest, an informal "Swapping Ground" for storytellers, and scholarly lectures on the status of blacks in Appalachia.Among the fifteen master storytellers participating in the festival were Mary Carter Smith and Linda...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 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
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- Appalachian Region. 21
- Berea (Ky.) 15
- Education, higher -- Administration 7
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 6
- Students, college -- Berea College 6
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 5
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 4
- Oral history interview. 4
- Oral history. 4
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 3
- Appalachian Region -- Race relations. 3
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 3
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching. 3
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 3
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 3
- Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region -- History. 3
- Hand weaving. 3
- Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 3
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs. 2
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Periodicals. 2
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs. 2
- Appalachian Region, Southern. 2
- Folk and music festivals. 2
- Folk art -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 2
- Folk music -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Handweaving -- Patterns. 2
- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 2
- Kentucky Day Law. 2
- Medical care -- Kentucky. 2
- Music -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Women -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Abolitionists -- Kentucky -- Biography 1
- African American history. 1
- African American women. 1
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- Folklore. 1
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions. 1
- African Americans -- Segregation. 1
- African Americans. 1
- Antislavery movements -- Kentucky. 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 1
- Appalachia -- Description and travel. 1
- Appalachia -- Education. 1
- Appalachian Heritage. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Church history. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Demography. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region -- History 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Religious life and customs. 1
- Art -- Study and teaching. 1
- Ballads, English -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Ballads, English -- Kentucky. 1
- Basketwork -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Berea College -- Student Health Services 1
- Berea, Kentucky -- Women's Christian Temperance Union 1
- Bible in music -- History. 1
- Birth control. 1
- Bluegrass music. 1
- Breathitt County (Ky.) 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Churches, Presbyterian 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Marriage records 1
- Buffalo Creek (W. Va.) -- Flood, 1972. 1
- Bunraku. 1
- Carillons. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1
- China -- Education. 1
- China -- Missionaries. 1
- China -- Politics. 1
- Church music -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Church music -- Protestant churches. 1
- Churches, Presbyterian -- Bedford Presbyterian Church. 1
- Clergy, Presbyterian -- Sermons. 1
- College integration -- Kentucky -- Berea -- History -- 19th century. 1
- Community leadership. 1
- Day Law (Kentucky). 1
- Distilling, Illicit. 1
- Education -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Education, Higher -- Segregation. 1
- Education, higher -- Afro-Americans. 1
- Fiddle tunes -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Fiddle tunes. 1
- Folk dancing -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Folk dancing. 1
- Folk songs -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Folk songs -- Kentucky. 1
- Folklore -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Freedmen -- Kentucky. 1
- Glossolalia. 1
- Handicraft. 1
- Integration -- Berea College. 1
- Knott County (Ky.). 1
- Literacy programs -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1
- Literacy programs. 1
- Madison County (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Maternal and infant welfare -- United States -- History. 1
- Medical care -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Military installations -- World War I. 1 + ∧ less
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