RG 14. Oral Histories

Scope and Contents This collection consists of video and audio recorded interviews with attendees and instructors of the Berea College Christmas Country Dance School who have been associated with the dance school over many years’ time. Interview 01 Wayne Allen and Veree Woodbridge Interview 12-31-2013 Interview 02 Peter Baker 12-31-2013. Interview 03 Susan Booker Interview 12-27-2013. Interview 04 Don Cardwell Interview 01-01-2014. Interview 05 Brice Carlberg Interview...

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This collection consists of recordings of radio coverage of Berea College men's and women's basketball games mostly during the period 1990 - 1999. Other years included are 1985 and 1989 and the Women's 2008 KIAC Championships. Several pre and post-game interviews with Berea Coach Roland Wierwille and others are included as well as game play-by-play calls. Announcers included Roger Oliver and Craig Stottlemeir.

Abstract Berea students, faculty, and staff, along with many others, had previously participated in a 1964 march on the state capitol in Frankfort to lobby the Kentucky legislature to pass civil rights legislation. On March 7,1965, a small group of Bereans took part in a King-led march that had to turn back before arriving at Montgomery—during which a white minister from Boston was killed. The subsequent five-day march of March 21st through the 25th drew more than 25,000 participants. Fifty-eight...

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...

Abstract 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 Lincoln to be a college as well as a high school, but by the 1930s it gave up its junior college...

Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of audio recorded interviews conducted by Berea College students as part of a January 1973 short term History 190 course taught by Dr. Richard Drake. Listen To Interviews Interviewees Are: Bethel Cornette Interview re: Moonshining January 1973 Bill Woods Interview re:...

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...

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This collection consists of thirty-five audio cassettes and transcripts of interviews with thirteen Berea College faculty and staff. Some of the individuals interviewed were also Berea College alumni; the tenure with the College of several interviewees dated from the 1930s and 1940s.

The project was initiated by Berea College president, Willis D. Weatherford. The interviews were conducted by various Berea College faculty members between 1983 and 1989.

Scope and Contents Audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with twenty one Berea College faculty and staff, some of whom were also Berea College alumni. Listen to Interview Recordings and / or Read Transcripts The interviews document the development of the college's theatre activities including both the curricular program and...

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...