Box 2
Container
Contains 14 Results:
Print materials on various subjects
File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Clippings and correspondence in this series describe the personal qualities and public achievements for which Allen was honored in her lifetime and at her death. Her career and some of her activities are documented through Berea College records, and her wide personal acquaintance is evident in the correspondence. Included in this series are two papers, by historian Carolyn Terry Bashaw, placing Allen’s actions as a Southern woman opposing segregation in the context of the actions of other...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1935-1974; Other: Majority of material found within 1935-1939
Berea Committee on Human Rights, 1961-1964
File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, notes, clippings
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1961-1964
Letters protesting Berea College's cancellation of a program for voter registration volunteers, 1964
File — Box: 2, Folder: 11
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Documents in this series record Allen’s support of integration, voting rights, unions, and pacifism. Early in her career she led an integrated team of students to survey conditions in Arkansas as guests of the Southern Farmers Tenant Union. The students were able to document a paucity of health care and decent housing, the context of racial prejudice, and the resilience and solidarity of the union members. When President Francis Hutchins refused Berea’s campus as a training base for college...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1964
Thomas W. Rodd, a Vietnam-era conscientious objector who attended Berea College, 1967-1968
File — Box: 2, Folder: 12
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Documents in this series record Allen’s support of integration, voting rights, unions, and pacifism. Early in her career she led an integrated team of students to survey conditions in Arkansas as guests of the Southern Farmers Tenant Union. The students were able to document a paucity of health care and decent housing, the context of racial prejudice, and the resilience and solidarity of the union members. When President Francis Hutchins refused Berea’s campus as a training base for college...
Dates:
1967-1968