RG 13. Associated Items

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Histories of Berea College, including a few personal accounts, written by various individuals including many who worked or studied at the College.

Abstract The Day Law, "An Act to Prohibit White and Colored Persons from Attending the Same School," was signed into law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky by Governor J.C.W. Beckham in March 1904. The law effectively forced Berea College, the only integrated college in Kentucky, to segregate. As the bill was being debated in the Kentucky House of Representatives Committee on Education, two groups came to Frankfort to lobby the legislators. One group was led...

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...

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The National Conference of Church-Related Colleges was created in 1934 out of resolutions adopted by College Department of the Council of Church Boards of Education and the Liberal Arts College Movement.  The goal of forming the Conference was to create a more effective agency to directly serve the causes and needs of church-related colleges.

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Records, including correspondence and reports, detailing Berea College's relationship with Nyatsime College in Southern Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Materials documenting the College's long relations and history with Oberlin College.

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Records regarding the official alma mater or anthem of Berea College.

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The S.S. Berea Victory, built by the Permanente Metals Corporation, was launced from shipyard number 2 in Richmond (CA) on March 3, 1945.

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Clippings of the student news column "Students' Journal" printed in The Citizen. The column was one "Containing Breezy Notes of Past Trials and Triumps of Berea Students" and served as a forerunner to the student newspapers Pinnacle and Wallpaper.

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A collection of studies researched and written by various individuals (most likely not directly associated with the college) about Berea College and its mission.