RG 14. Oral Histories

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...

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 recordings and transcripts of recordings of oral histories of Berea College faculty, staff, alumni, and current students.  The project was conducted by students as part of their Oral History and Tradition course (GSTR 100) taught by Meighan Sharp in the fall of 1999.  Interviews were conducted and transcribed by students....

Scope and Contents This collection consists of interviews recorded between 1975 and 1980 documenting a wide variety of Appalachian traditional crafts, occupations, and expressive culture from areas of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.Listen To Interviews, Read Transcripts, View Photographs The...

Scope and Contents This collection is comprised of interviews tracing the development of religious life activities and programs at Berea College especially in relationship to the establishment of the position of Campus Minister and the Campus Christian Center.The memory time span of the interviewees ranges from 1930 through 1988, the time of the then most recent interview. Interviewees Are: Francis Hutchins Willis Weatherford Gordon Ross Donald Graham D.B....

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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 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 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 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...