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Berea College

 Organization

Found in 363 Collections and/or Records:

James Davis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 01-1.12
Abstract

These are the papers of James Davis who is associated with the founding and early history of the College.

Dates: Other: Dummy Date

Japanese-American students during WWII

 Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.51
Abstract

Collection of materials regarding Japanese-American students who attended Berea College as a result of internment or relocation during World War II.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1942-1949

J.A.R. Rogers and E.E. Rogers Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 01-1.03
Abstract

These are the records and papers of J.A.R. and E.E. Rogers, founding members of Berea College.  In April 1858, J. A. R. Rogers and Elizabeth E. Rogers arrived in Berea to and reinvigorate the small, struggling district school located on the Berea ridge.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1857-1910

J.O. Van Hook Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.51
Abstract Joseph O. Van Hook was raised in Pulaski County, Kentucky and began teaching in a one-room school house in 1909. He came to Berea in 1910 and earned two diplomas from the Normal School. He served as an Army corporal during World War I and spent four years following the war teaching in China at the Shanghai American School (1921-1925). He then returned to Berea College, earning three Bachelor of Arts degrees by 1926. He also earned a Master of Arts degree from the University of Kentucky in...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1855 - 1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1958

Joe Samuel Barker Autograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BCA 0187 HC 12
Abstract Joe Samuel Barker graduated from the Foundation School in 1950 and attended Berea College (1950-1953, 1961). Barker served in the U.S. Army in Japan and Korea and would go on to, amongst other things, work for the State Department, teach at the Friendsville Academy, and be self-employed. Materials in this collection consist of autographed letters written to Barker (approximately 200 items), many of which relate to a project he undertook to elicit the principal concerns of prominent American...
Dates: circa 1800 - 1970

John F. Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.46
Abstract

John Franklin Smith taught in both the Berea College Academy School and the Normal School from 1911 to 1931.  Originally drawn to Berea to teach Rural Social Science, Smith also served as a publicity agent for serveral years and directed the College Sunday School for fifteen years.  Smith was a prolific writer, including a poet. Smith retired from Berea in 1931 due to illness.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1920-1931

John G. Fee Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 01-1.02
Abstract

Papers and family records of John G. Fee.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1830-2011

John Hamilton Rawlings Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 01-1.09
Abstract

These are the papers of John Hamilton Rawlings who is associated with the founding and early history of the College.

Dates: Other: Dummy Date

John Hanson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 01-1.07
Abstract

These are the papers of John Hanson who is associated with the founding and early history of the College.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1858-1878

John M. Ramsay papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.38
Abstract

These are the personal papers of John M. Ramsay, in particular his papers regarding attempts to be classified as a conscientious objector with the Selective Service Board. Included in the papers are copies of his memoirs, personal correpsondence and correspondence with the US government (draft board), lawyers, and others involoved in working for his conscientious objector status, pamphlets, and official government papers.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1950s-2002

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Collection 351
Digital Record 6
Unprocessed Material 3
Archival Object 3
 
Subject
Students, college -- Berea College 81
Berea (Ky.) 58
Education, higher -- Administration 48
Appalachian Region. 21
Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Academy School 11
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Oral history. 9
Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 8
Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 8
Oral history interview. 8
Berea College 7
Abolitionists 6
Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 6
Oral history -- Appalachian region. 6
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 5
Science -- Study and Teaching 5
African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky. 4
Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 4
Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 4
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 4
Kentucky Day Law. 4
Students -- Societies, etc. 4
Students, Afro-American -- Berea College 4
African American history. 3
African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 3
Antislavery movements -- Kentucky. 3
Appalachian Region -- Race relations. 3
Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 3
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching. 3
Art -- Study and teaching. 3
Berea (Ky.) -- Newspapers. 3
Berea College -- Academic Vice President 3
Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 3
Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region -- History. 3
Hand weaving. 3
Industrial arts -- Study and teaching. 3
Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 3
Navy V-12 Program (U.S.). 3
Rural schools -- Kentucky -- History. 3
Students, Foreign. 3
Temperance. 3
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 3
Abolitionists -- Correspondence 2
Adult education 2
African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
African Americans -- Civil rights. 2
African Americans. 2
American poetry. 2
Appalachia -- Education. 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
Basketball -- Kentucky -- Berea. 2
Berea (Ky.) -- History. 2
Civil rights movements. 2
College students -- Research. 2
Computer programming. 2
Day Law (Kentucky). 2
Debates and debating. 2
Drama -- Production and direction. 2
Education -- Curricula. 2
Education -- Kentucky -- Harlan County 2
Education -- Kentucky -- History. 2
Education -- Study and teaching 2
Folk and music festivals. 2
Folk art -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 2
Folk dancing. 2
Folk music -- Appalachian Region. 2
Geography -- Study and teaching. 2
Geography. 2
Geology -- Study and teaching. 2
Geology. 2
Goodell, Clarissa Cady. 2
Handweaving -- Patterns. 2
Home economics -- Study and teaching. 2
Latin language -- Study and teaching. 2
Librarians. 2
Madison County (Ky.) -- Newspapers. 2
Maps. 2
Mathematics -- Study and teaching. 2
Medical care -- Kentucky. 2
Minorities -- Education -- United States. 2
Music -- Appalachian Region. 2
Music -- Instruction and study. 2
Oratory -- Competitions. 2
Philosophy and religion. 2
Physical education and training -- Study and teaching (Higher). 2
Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) 2
Religion. 2
Sociology. 2
Southern States -- Race relations. 2
Student activities. 2
Student government. 2
Student handbook 2
Students -- Political activity. 2
Students, Foreign -- Kentucky -- Berea. 2
Teacher -- Training of 2
Universities and colleges -- Finance. 2
Women -- Appalachian Region. 2
Women -- Education (Higher). 2
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