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Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.06
Abstract
The Day Law, "An Act to Prohibit White and Colored Persons from Attending the Same School," was signed into law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky by Governor J.C.W. Beckham in March 1904. The law effectively forced Berea College, the only integrated college in Kentucky, to segregate.
As the bill was being debated in the Kentucky House of Representatives Committee on Education, two groups came to Frankfort to lobby the legislators. One group was led...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1904-2005
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0268
Abstract
Interviews recorded by Susan Spalding documenting the history of square dancing in Berea and surrounding counties. Also included are selected audio and video excerpts of local dance groups and callers.
The dancing is the type done in a big circle that divides into smaller “squares” of two couples. Listen to Interview...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2014; Other: Majority of material found in 2014; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1901
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0178
Abstract
The Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen (KGAC, also referred to as the Guild) is the oldest statewide visual art and craft organization in Kentucky. The KGAC has introduced thousands of people across Kentucky to the world of art and fine craft and has been leader in the national art and craft movement—especially active in promoting national awareness from the 1960s through the 1970s. The KGAC Art & Craft Fairs, started in the early 1960s, are an integral part of the organization’s...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1964-2001
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0125 SAA 125
Scope and Contents
One hundred fifty-one audio recorded interviews and detailed content summaries (not transcripts) documenting the economic and social conditions of people who have lived or worked on the Kentucky River.
Listen To Available Interview Recordings / Read Interview Summaries
The interviews were recorded by Berea College...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1989-1990
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0265
Abstract
Audio and video recorded interviews and performances with Kentucky traditional musicians and singers some of whom had radio performing careers mainly during the 1930s and 1940s. The interviews were conducted at various times over the period 1969-2008, by Reubein Powell, Ray Nemec, Loyal Jones, Stephen Green, Susan Eacker, and Harry Rice.
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Other: Majority of material found in 1969-2008
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0267
Abstract
These are fiddle tune transcriptions produced by three traditional music scholars whose Berea based research projects were supported by the Berea College Sound Archives Fellowship Program during 2006 and 2008
Erynn Marshall focused mainly on eastern Kentucky fiddle styles and song traditions in a similar way to her 1998 research conducted in West Virginia.
In his transcriptions of tunes by several Kentucky fiddlers, Alan Jabbour paid particular attention to unison notes, a culturally...
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Other: Dummy Date
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.30
Abstract
Papers of John Kessler, commanding officer of the V-12 officer training school unit at Berea College during WWII.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1980-1998
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0129 SAA 129
Scope and Contents
This collection documents several early country music radio performers, their sponsors and radio stations, mainly during the 1930s and 1940s. The collection includes promotional material for radio stations, country music performers, and sponsors in the form of songbooks, family photo albums, calendars, program histories, and autograph books. There are also performer photographs, print publications, advertising posters and an unpublished scrap book compiled by an unknown radio...
Dates:
1925-2004; Other: Date acquired: 2009 April 1
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0014 -SAA 013
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, business records, photographs, news clippings, songbooks, and sheet music from radio ballad singer Bradley Kincaid. Collection sound recordings include interviews of Kincaid and his associates, a 1974 Kincaid performance at the Renfro Valley Traditional Music Festival, a 1974 recording of the song "Who Is Bradley Kincaid" composed and performed by Vince Matthews and Glen Sherley and copies of Kincaid's commercial 78 rpm discs (1928-1947).
Dates:
1856-1999; Majority of material found within 1923-1949
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.31
Abstract
Personal papers of Thomas Kreider including both personal and professional correspondence and records of his work at Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1954-1986
