Berea College
Organization
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
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
Boone Tavern Hotel
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.04
Abstract
Historic Boone Tavern was built in 1909 at the suggestion of Nellie Frost, wife of Berea College president, William G. Frost. Named for Appalachian hero Daniel Boone has hosted visitors of Berea, Kentucky including the Dalai Lama, Henry Ford, President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou, and Robert Frost.
Construction of Boone Tavern began in 1909 based on designs by the New York architectural firm of Cady & See at a cost of $20,000. The building, made of bricks...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1912-2014
Campus and Student Organizations
Collection
Identifier: RG 07-7.00
Abstract
General collection of papers and records of numerous campus and student organizations, organized by organization, at Berea College from 1871 to the present day.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1871-
Cardinal Deli Kitchen Collection
Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0227 HC 52
Abstract
This collection is comprised of the recipe and pricing book for the Cardinal Deli (previously the Co-op, Berea College Grocery, and the Cardinal Grocery) located at 110 Main Street, Berea, KY. The Co-op (part of Berea College Industries) and Berea College Grocery were owned by Berea College until April 1970 when it was purchased by Earl J. Shupe (former College Grocery Store Manager). Shupe renamed the grocery store to the Cardinal Grocery/Deli. Eddie “Fast Eddie” Shupe, Earl’s son,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1999
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-
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
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 -
Conferences
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.10
Scope and Contents
Records and materials related to various conferences, symposiums, and workshops held at Berea College, whether sponsored by Berea College or a non-affiliated organization. Materials include programs, conference papers, announcements, handbooks and information sheets about the conferences.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1890-
E. H. Fairchild Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.01
Abstract
Born in Stockbridge, MA, 29 November 1815, Edward Henry Fairchild grew up in Brownhelm, Ohio,where his parents, Grandison and Nancy Fairchild, had a farm. He and his brother James were half of the first entering class at Oberlin College; he graduated in 1838. At age 21, after lecturing against slavery in Ohio as one of the "Seventy" sent out by Theodore Weld, he was commissioned by the American Anti-slavery Society for a three-month tour of Pennsylvania. At 22 he began teaching a large...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860-1973
Edwards Scapbook, Part I
Digital Record
Identifier: Digital Object ID ##v5b4bc
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- Subject: Berea (Ky.) X
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- Collection 62
- Digital Record 1
- Subject
- Berea (Ky.) 58
- Students, college -- Berea College 15
- Appalachian Region. 8
- Education, higher -- Administration 7
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 6
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 6
- Abolitionists 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 4
- Antislavery movements -- Kentucky. 3
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 3
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 3
- Berea (Ky.) -- Newspapers. 3
- Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Academy School 3
- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 3
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 3
- African American history. 2
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 2
- African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky. 2
- African Americans. 2
- Appalachian Region -- Race relations. 2
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 2
- Berea (Ky.) -- History. 2
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- Folk dancing. 2
- Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- Hand weaving. 2
- Handweaving -- Patterns. 2
- Kentucky Day Law. 2
- Madison County (Ky.) -- Newspapers. 2
- Minorities -- Education -- United States. 2
- Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 2
- Oral history interview. 2
- Oral history. 2
- Students -- Political activity. 2
- Students -- Societies, etc. 2
- Students, Afro-American -- Berea College 2
- Women college students 2
- Abolitionists -- Kentucky -- Biography 1
- African American women. 1
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- History. 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. 1
- African Americans -- Segregation. 1
- American poetry. 1
- Appalachia -- Description and travel. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Church history. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Demography. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region -- History 1
- Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Basketwork -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Berea College -- Berea College Faculty Club 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Fairchild Hall 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Howard Hall 1
- Bluegrass music. 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Churches, Presbyterian 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Marriage records 1
- Buffalo Creek (W. Va.) -- Flood, 1972. 1
- Canada -- Clergy, Baptist. 1
- Cemeteries--Kentucky--Madison County. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1
- China -- Education. 1
- China -- Missionaries. 1
- China -- Politics. 1
- Churches, Presbyterian -- Bedford Presbyterian Church. 1
- Civil rights -- Madison County (Ky). 1
- Civil rights movements -- Kentucky -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Clergy, Presbyterian -- Sermons. 1
- College and school drama. 1
- College integration -- Kentucky -- Berea -- History -- 19th century. 1
- Day Law (Kentucky). 1
- Debates and debating. 1
- Disarmament. 1
- Distilling, Illicit. 1
- Education -- Curricula. 1
- Education -- Kentucky -- History. 1
- Education -- Study and teaching 1
- Education, Higher -- Segregation. 1
- Education, higher -- Afro-Americans. 1
- Fiddle tunes -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Fiddle tunes. 1
- Folk and music festivals. 1
- Folk music -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Freedmen -- Kentucky. 1
- Handicraft. 1
- Home economics -- Study and teaching. 1
- Indian Fort Theatre 1
- Integration -- Berea College. 1
- Kentucky -- Education -- History. 1
- Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Drama. 1
- Librarians. 1
- Literacy programs -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1
- Literacy programs. 1
- Madison County (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Military installations -- World War I. 1
- Mountain Folk Festival. 1
- Music -- Appalachian Region. 1 + ∧ less
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