Berea College
Organization
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
Union Church Collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0176 HC 01
Abstract
The Church of Christ, Union, of Berea Kentucky (Union Church) collection consists of materials pertaining to the historical, financial, and celebratory records of the institution. It also includes information about the church’s order for worship, including music and the arts as a part of the church’s history.
There are minutes, programs, and brochures about the governance of the church and in celebration of its two major anniversaries: the Centennial in 1953 and the Sesquicentennial in...
Dates:
Other: 1865-
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
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
Willis D. Weatherford, Sr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.56
Abstract
Willis D. Weatherford, Sr., was president of the Blue Ridge Assembly, Black Mountain, N.C., 1906-1944; president of the Y.M.C.A. Graduate School, Nashville, 1919-1946; trustee of Berea College, Berea, Ky., 1916-ca. 1962; faculty member of Fisk University, 1936-1946; director of the Southern Appalachian Studies Project, 1956-1968; and lifelong student of race relations in the South.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1915-1970
Wilma Dykeman Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.16
Abstract
Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006) lived all her life near the French Broad River in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. Born in Asheville, Dykeman traced her interest in writing to the stories her parents read aloud to her when she was a child. By the time she was in elementary school, she was making up her own stories, plays, and poems. After graduating from high school and Biltmore Junior College in Asheville, Dykeman attended Northwestern University and received a bachelor’s degree in...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1959-1998
Filtered By
- Subject: Appalachian Region. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- 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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