Berea College
Organization
Found in 83 Collections and/or Records:
Lena M. Elkin Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.18
Abstract
Lena M. Elkin was born in Berea, Kentucky October 24, 1904 and attended Berea College Training, Berea College Grammar School, Berea College Normal, Berea College High School, and Eastern State Teachers College.
Weaving was extremely important in Ms. Elkin’s life. During the 1930s she taught weaving for two summer terms at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and another summer at University Of Florida Extension Service’s Camp Roosevelt at Ocala. She was production supervisor...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1905-1986; Other: Majority of material found in 1928-1937
Lilly Committee
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.25
Abstract
The Lilly Committee was tasked with researching and writing a proposal for a grant of the Lilly Endowment to improve racial and ethnic diversity and campus climate.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1991
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
Long Range Planning Committees
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.18
Abstract
See Arrangement Notes
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1969-1987
Louis Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.01
Abstract
Louis Smith came to Berea as an instructor in 1927 and served as the college's Dean of the Upper Division before serving as Dean of the College from 1947 to 1969.
Charles Louis Smith (Louis Smith) was born on October 2, 1905 in Fayetteville, Tennessee. He was the second of four children to George and Edna Smith. Smith attended the Lincoln Central High School (which he referred to as the Rocky Knob of Hard Knocks and Slow Scholars) where he was involved in various activities....
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1938-1988
Mary Longacre Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.63
Abstract
Mary Longacre (later Grimm) served as superintendent of nurses at Berea College in the early 1920s.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in c. 1920s; Other: Date acquired: 10/22/1993
News Bureau Vertical Files
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.23VF
Abstract
News releases, articles and write ups of the Berea College News Bureau.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1965-1979
Normal School
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.05
Abstract
Official records of the Berea College Normal School, 1894 - 1931. The Certification Law of 1930, requiring teachers to have four years of collegiate training, effectively dismantled the Normal School (which had already been altered in keeping with other state and federal requirements).
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1894-1931
Nursing Department
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 06-6.30
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Nursing Department.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1921-
Office of Academic Affairs
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.10
Abstract
Official records of Berea College's Office of Academic Affairs.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1921-
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- Education, higher -- Administration 47
- Students, college -- Berea College 28
- Berea (Ky.) 15
- Appalachian Region. 7
- African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky. 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 4
- Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Academy School 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 3
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 3
- Kentucky Day Law. 3
- Adult education 2
- African American history. 2
- Appalachia -- Education. 2
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 2
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 2
- Education -- Kentucky -- Harlan County 2
- Education -- Kentucky -- History. 2
- Education -- Study and teaching 2
- Latin language -- Study and teaching. 2
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 2
- Minorities -- Education -- United States. 2
- Physical education and training -- Study and teaching (Higher). 2
- Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) 2
- Rural schools -- Kentucky -- History. 2
- Students, Afro-American -- Berea College 2
- Women -- Education (Higher). 2
- Abolitionists 1
- Adult education -- Kentucky -- History 1
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. 1
- African Americans -- Education -- Southern States. 1
- African Americans. 1
- American poetry. 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 1
- Appalachia -- Description and travel. 1
- Appalachian Region -- History 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Religious life and customs. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching. 1
- Art -- Study and teaching. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 1
- Berea College -- Affilliated Schools -- Junior High School 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Fairchild Hall 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Howard Hall 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Churches, Presbyterian 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Marriage records 1
- Bunraku. 1
- Business and education -- United States. 1
- Business education. 1
- Canada -- Clergy, Baptist. 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
- Clergy, Presbyterian -- Sermons. 1
- College student development programs 1
- College student orientation 1
- Computer programming. 1
- Congregationalism -- Periodicals. 1
- Continuing education. 1
- Day Law (Kentucky). 1
- Economics -- Development -- Sustainable Development 1
- Economics -- Study and teaching (Higher). 1
- Education -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Education -- Curricula. 1
- Education, Cooperative 1
- Education, Higher -- Segregation. 1
- Education, Higher -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Education, Humanistic -- United States. 1
- Education, Rural -- Kentucky. 1
- Education, Secondary -- Standards. 1
- Education, higher -- Afro-Americans. 1
- Education. 1
- Elderhostels 1
- Environmental education. 1
- Family -- education. 1
- Folklore -- Appalachian Region. 1
- French language -- Study and teaching. 1
- German language -- Study and teaching. 1
- Glossolalia. 1
- Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region -- History. 1
- Hand weaving. 1
- Handweaving -- Patterns. 1
- Harlan County (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Home economics -- Study and teaching. 1
- Industrial arts -- Study and teaching. 1
- Integration -- Berea College. 1
- International education. 1
- Internship programs. 1
- Kentucky -- Education -- History. 1
- Kentucky -- History -- Juvenile literature. 1
- Kentucky -- History. 1
- Kentucky -- Textbooks. 1
- Kentucky. 1
- Language and education. 1
- Librarians. 1
- Mathematics -- Study and teaching. 1
- Medical care -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1 + ∧ less
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