The Citizen/The Berea Citizen

Collection

Identifier: RG 12-12.12

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Print editions of The Berea Citizen, 1899 to 1983. Incomplete. Missing 1963 editions.

Dates

created: 1899-1983

Creator

Berea College (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.

Note: Archived issues of The Citizen and the Berea Citizen are available in digital format as part of the Library of Congress Chronicling America online collection at http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052075/.

Additionally, The Citizen (1899- 1958) is available in microfilm format in Berea College’s Mircoforms Collections (see Reference Department/Hutchins Library) and in print format in Special Collections and Archives. The Berea Citizen is available in microfilm (1958-2008) in Berea College’s Mircoforms Collections (see Reference Department/Hutchins Library) and in print format (1958–Present) in Special Collections and Archives.

Conditions Governing Use

There are no restrictions on the collection other than federal copyright regulations.

Biographical or Historical Information

Named The Citizen through June 1958, later named The Berea Citizen.

For later editions of The Berea Citizen (1984-present) see The Berea Citizen Collection BCA 0217 HC 42

Conceived as a publication to entertain, inform, and uplift its readers, the The Citizen/The Berea Citizen was inseparable from the evolving purpose of its sponsor, Berea College. From its founding in 1855 as the first interracial and co-educational institution of higher learning in the American South, Berea College was intended to serve as a counterpoint to the injustices of racial inequality and poverty. First published in 1899, the Citizen functioned as an account of college life and a source of information about the surrounding community. Although the Berea Citizen severed its connection to the college in 1984, the paper continues to publish to this day emphasizing the Berea community as a whole.