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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...

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Correspondence, notes, clippings

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...

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Materials regarding Thomas W. Rodd, a Vietnam-era conscientious objector who attended Berea College

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...

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Efforts to eliminate the poll tax, other

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Julia Allen said she could talk about issues better than she could write about them. Yet several speeches in this series were written out and typed, so they may have been more than ordinarily important to her. Her talks for the YWCA, however, were organized in detail on note cards.

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Julia Allen said she could talk about issues better than she could write about them. Yet several speeches in this series were written out and typed, so they may have been more than ordinarily important to her. Her talks for the YWCA, however, were organized in detail on note cards.

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Julia Allen said she could talk about issues better than she could write about them. Yet several speeches in this series were written out and typed, so they may have been more than ordinarily important to her. Her talks for the YWCA, however, were organized in detail on note cards.

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...