Berea College
Organization
Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:
Anti-Slavery Collection
Collection — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3; Series 4
Identifier: BCA 0168 HC 03
Abstract
The Anti-Slavery Collection contains essays, addresses, reports, letters, business and legal records, research notes, and other materials collected by Berea College librarians through donation and purchase. These items document the institution of slavery, the anti-slavery movement, the conflict over slavery, and the aftermath of slavery in the United States of America.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1769-1916; Other: Majority of material found within 1800-1880
William Eleazar Barton papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.04
Abstract
Collection of material documenting life and work of W.E. Barton.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1885-1976; Other: Majority of material found in 1895–1925
Berea Cemetery Association Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0170 HC 66
Abstract
After agitating the question of the need to organize a cemetery association and holding preliminary meetings led by Reverend E. H. Fairchild and A.A. Wright, the Berea community organized the Berea Cemetery Association in 1872. The preliminary meetings resulted in the adoption of a constitution, the enrollment of nearly thirty subscribers to the Constitution, and an initiation fee for membership of $2.00. The first election under the Constitution was held in the Fall of 1872 and resulted...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1872-1996
Berea College 1973-1975 Oral History Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.04
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of twenty nine audio cassette recordings of individual interviews, group discussions, and oral presentations that document various aspects of Berea College and community history.There are transcripts for the individual interviews and notes in varying degrees of completeness for the other recordings.The memory time span of the narrators ranges mostly from the 1920s to the early 1970s. The interviews were conducted by various faculty members and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1973-1975
Berea College Historical Register/Alumni Directory
Collection
Identifier: RG 12-12.26
Scope and Contents
Various historical registers and alumni directories of Berea College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1916-1995
Berea College Men's Basketball Oral History Collection, 1998-1999
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.01
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of sound cassette recordings (1998-1999) by Tom Chase documenting the history of the Berea College men's basketball program.Chase examines the relationship between sports and academic life throughout the interviews, pointing to Berea's emphasis on academic excellence. The interviews contain a wealth of information concerning the lives of players after graduation.The collection contains interviews with players from Berea basketball's classic...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1998 - 1999
Berea College Telephone Directories
Collection
Identifier: RG 12-12.16
Scope and Contents
Various telephone directories published by Berea College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1907-2009; Other: Majority of material found in 1976-2009
Berea College Womens Basketball Oral History Collection, 2008
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.09
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of audio compact disc recordings and transcripts of sixteen interviews recorded by Tom Chase in 2008. (Click on the red Digital Object icon to hear recordings and read transcripts.) Interviews are mostly with women who played varsity (intercollegiate) basketball at Berea College during the program's first three decades (early 1960s to 2008). The exceptions are three Berea College faculty members who coached and taught physical education (Martha Beagle, Mark...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 2008
Berea Community Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0181-HC 06
Abstract
The Berea Community Collection is comprised of archival materials collected by college librarians as a part of the Berea City Vertical Files. This collection, with its wealth of local history, was removed from the vertical files in order to further preserve and arrange the materials as a working collection.
Background information and local history have been preserved in the form of business ledgers, organizational minutes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, audio recorded...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1810 - 1964
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
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- Kentucky Day Law. 4
- Antislavery movements -- Kentucky. 3
- Appalachian Region. 3
- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 3
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 3
- Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 3
- Oral history. 3
- Rural schools -- Kentucky -- History. 3
- Students, Afro-American -- Berea College 3
- Abolitionists 2
- African American history. 2
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 2
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 2
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 2
- Basketball -- Kentucky -- Berea. 2
- Day Law (Kentucky). 2
- Education -- Kentucky -- Harlan County 2
- Education -- Kentucky -- History. 2
- Education, higher -- Administration 2
- Medical care -- Kentucky. 2
- Oral history interview. 2
- Students, Foreign -- Kentucky -- Berea. 2
- Students, Foreign. 2
- Abolitionists -- Kentucky -- Biography 1
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- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. 1
- African Americans. 1
- Alumni Memorial Building. 1
- Appalachia -- Education. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 1
- Appalachian Region -- History 1
- Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs. 1
- Ballads, English -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Ballads, English -- Kentucky. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Berea College -- Alumni and alumnae 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Fairchild Hall 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Howard Hall 1
- Berea College -- Student Health Services 1
- Berea, Kentucky -- Women's Christian Temperance Union 1
- Birth control. 1
- Breathitt County (Ky.) 1
- Cemeteries--Kentucky--Madison County. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1
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- China -- Missionaries. 1
- China -- Politics. 1
- Civil rights -- Madison County (Ky). 1
- Civil rights movements -- Kentucky -- History -- 20th century. 1
- College integration -- Kentucky -- Berea -- History -- 19th century. 1
- College students -- Kentucky -- Madison County -- Directories -- 20th century. 1
- Congregationalism -- Periodicals. 1
- Disarmament. 1
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 1
- Education, Higher -- Segregation. 1
- Education, Rural -- Kentucky. 1
- Education, higher -- Afro-Americans. 1
- Fiddle tunes -- Kentucky. 1
- Fiddle tunes -- West Virginia. 1
- Fiddlers -- Kentucky. 1
- Fiddlers -- West Virginia. 1
- Folk and music festivals. 1
- Folk art -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Folk dancing -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Folk dancing. 1
- Folk music -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Folk songs -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Folk songs -- Kentucky. 1
- Forest management -- Kentucky. 1
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- Freedmen -- Kentucky. 1
- Harlan County (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Indian Fort Theatre 1
- Integration -- Berea College. 1
- International education. 1
- Kentucky -- Education -- History. 1
- Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Drama. 1
- Kentucky -- History -- Juvenile literature. 1
- Kentucky -- History. 1
- Kentucky -- Textbooks. 1
- Kentucky. 1
- Knott County (Ky.). 1
- Librarians. 1
- Madison County (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Maternal and infant welfare -- United States -- History. 1
- Minorities -- Education -- United States. 1
- Oral histories -- Kentucky -- Madison County -- Berea. 1
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 1
- Organizations, campus -- Phi Kappa Phi. 1
- Perry County (Ky.). 1
- Physical education and training -- Kentucky -- Berea. 1
- Physical education and training -- Study and teaching (Higher). 1
- Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) 1 + ∧ less
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