Box 1

These are the papers and publications relating to the founding and work of the Lincoln Institute, founded by Berea College in 1910 to serve black students after the Kentucky Day Law (1904) effectively segregated the College. Materials document curriculum development, administrative activities, and fund-raising efforts.

Materials consist of Tresaurer's Reports, President's Reports, Trustee Minutes and Reports, and miscellaneous departmental and administrative reports documenting the life of the Institute and efforts to maintain it as an effective instrument of Black education and vocational training.  Institute publications and various publicity and fund-raising items are also included in the collection.  Some correspondence is also present as well as reports of the Lincoln Foundation, the fund-raising instrument of the Institute.