RG 14. Oral Histories

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...

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...

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...