Berea College
Organization
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
Students for Appalachia (SFA) Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 07-7.06
Abstract
Students for Appalachia (SFA) was established in 1968 by Berea College students to serve the community through programs in arts, crafts, home visitation, recreation, tutoring of school children and serving as referral agents for public service and federal programs. SFA students also teach basic literacy skills for adults and assist those interested in obtaining a high school diploma through a program conducted in homes and community centers. The student lead program would later become a...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-1992
The Berea Citizen Collection (1984-Present)
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0217 HC 42
Abstract
Print editions of The Berea Citizen, 1984 to present.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1984-2023
The Berea Quarterly
Collection
Identifier: RG 12-12.21
Scope and Contents
Nineteen volumes of The Berea Quarterly, publication of Berea College. Each edition generally includes articles about people of the region or the college and short contributions under the headings of Personal Testimony, Items, and/or Incidents. Collection also contains a folder of administrative notes and correspondence regarding the publication of The Berea Quarterly.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1895-1916
The Citizen/The Berea Citizen
Collection
Identifier: RG 12-12.12
Abstract
Print editions of The Berea Citizen, 1899 to 1983.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1983
The Wallpaper
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 12-12.17
Abstract
From 1939 to the fall of 1954, during a time of ceasation of the publication of the student-run The Pinnacle, students continued to publish a newspaper under the title The Wallpaper.
The Wallpaper, began circulation in 1939 and ran through the spring of 1954. It is noted as being published during the war years in the form of one or two typewritten copies (on long sheets of colored paper) and posted on campus bulletin boards (or the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1939-1954
Thomas A. Edwards Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.17
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of papers, photographs, correspondence, personnal items, clippings, writings, and a leather bound photograph album of Thomas A. Edwards, Dean of the Berea College Foundation School and faculty member for twenty-two years (1904 - 1926).
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1925-1935
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-
Wilderness Road Drama Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.04
Abstract
Wilderness Road, an outdoor symphonic drama, was commissioned by Berea College to help commemorate the school’s centennial celebration in the summer of 1955. The drama was written by Pulitzer prize-winning author, Paul Green, who also authored The Common Glory, The Lost Colony, and The Stephen Foster Story. Green received the Freedom Foundation’s George...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1942-1980
William B. Stewart Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.02
Abstract
Stewart, a native of Scotland, was educated there, in Canada, and in the United States. He was ordaineda Baptist minister in Toronto, Canada in 1859. During his career he served as president of three othereducational institutions and as a professor of classical languages. He was named president of BereaCollege in 1890 and his views reflected Fee's perspective in that Berea offered a Christian education.Stewart’s presidency occurred during a period in the College's history marked by adverse...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1879 - 1974; Other: Majority of material found in 1890-1892
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
Filtered By
- Subject: Berea (Ky.) X
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- Type
- 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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