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Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.16
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Biology Department.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1929-2022
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.50
Abstract
In 1983, Berea College established the Black Cultural Center (BCC) with the philosophy that true integration and equality cannot happen without awareness, understanding, and appreciation of black culture. Over three decades later, the philosophical foundation of the Black Cultural Center has not changed and it continues to support the historic commitments of Berea College – in particular the commitment:
“To assert the kinship of all people and to provide interracial education with a...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1979-
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
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0133 SAA 133
Abstract
Born in Wolfe County, KY, in 1922, Blanche (Hurt) Coldiron moved with her family to Powell County when she was 6 years old. At nine years old, after listening to Uncle Dave Macon play banjo on the Grand Old Opry radio show, Blanche taught herself to play the banjo. She played the banjo using five different picking styles including, her customary style, the “claw hammer.” In addition to the banjo, Coldiron played the bass, guitar, fiddle, and mandolin. Beginning her music career during...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1996-2007
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0157
Abstract
Charles Pride, Dorothy Kincaid, and Jo Davenport formed CDJ Media Productions to conduct and record interviews with black Blount County residents who helped shape the community during and after the integration of the schools in 1969. Their idea for collecting interviews was formed in 2007 when they identified an urgency to preserve, in an accurate and positive way, Blount County’s rich black history. Their work resulted in “Blount County’s Black History — As Told by Those Who Lived It — Then...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1959 - 2015; Other: Majority of material found in 2007-2015
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0288
Abstract
This collection comprises 25 printed items: 23 historic maps and 2 rare book leaves from the private collection of Bob Rodriguez.
Dates:
1847-1911; 1493-1497
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.04
Abstract
Historic Boone Tavern was built in 1909 at the suggestion of Nellie Frost, wife of Berea College president, William G. Frost. Named for Appalachian hero Daniel Boone has hosted visitors of Berea, Kentucky including the Dalai Lama, Henry Ford, President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou, and Robert Frost.
Construction of Boone Tavern began in 1909 based on designs by the New York architectural firm of Cady & See at a cost of $20,000. The building, made of bricks...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1912-2014
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0014-SAA 013
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1923-1949
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.03
Abstract
Bruce Fairchild Barton (August 5, 1886 – July 5, 1967) was an author, advertising executive, and politician. He served in the U.S. Congress from 1937 to 1940 as a Republican from New York. Barton enrolled in Berea College during 1903 and later transferred to Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he graduated in 1907.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1918-1960
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0090 SAA 090
Abstract
One hundred seventy-four (174) audio field recordings (1970s-1990s) of interviews and performances that document the repertoire and playing styles of several dozen Kentucky fiddlers, mainly from the state's southern and southeastern regions.
Listen To Selected Performances
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1990
