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Berea College 1973-1975 Oral History Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.04
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of twenty nine audio cassette recordings of individual interviews, group discussions, and oral presentations that document various aspects of Berea College and community history.There are transcripts for the individual interviews and notes in varying degrees of completeness for the other recordings.The memory time span of the narrators ranges mostly from the 1920s to the early 1970s. The interviews were conducted by various faculty members and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1973-1975
Blacks at Berea
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.07
Scope and Contents
A collection of materials documenting the history of blacks at Berea College as well as race relations at the College. Materials include clippings, notes, writings, correspondence, College memorandum and notices, and other.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1836-1972
Committee for the March on Montgomery
Collection
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