Box 1
Container
Contains 15 Results:
The Pinnacle and Berea Alumnus Articles regarding Participation in March, 1965
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Includes: articles from the Berea College student newspaper The Pinnacle, articles dated March 20, 1965 and March 27, 1965; article from The Berea Alumnus dated April 1965
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1965
Letter: George Giffin to March Contributors, 1965-05-07
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
Thank you note from Committee to individual contributors of the March to Montgomery, signed by George Giffin, Chair of Committee
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1965-05-07
Memo of Richard B. Drake re: march participants, 1989-06-23
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
A 1989 handwritten note/memo from professor and march attendee, Richard Drake, noting that an official published list omitted Frank Corbett as an attendee. Drake notes that Corbett was one of the orchestrators of the trip. Corbett later made a speech in Danforth Chapel that he had marched three times with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1989-06-23
Additional Materials
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Letter: "Three Posters" (against those going to March as representatives of Berea College)
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1965-1989; Other: Majority of material found in 1965
Committee for the March on Montgomery
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG 10-10.29
Abstract
On Thursday, March 25, 1965, fifty-eight Berea College student, faculty and staff joined 25,000 other demonstrators in the last phase of the March on Montgomery from Selma, Alabama. The trip made by students and other members of the college was neither officially recognized by the College or endorsed by the Student Association Senate.
Berea's participation in the march was organized by a committee of students which organized in response to a controversial letter from the Associate Dean of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1965-1989; Other: Majority of material found in 1965