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National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0016 SAA 015
Abstract
President Lyndon B. Johnson formed the National Advisory Commission on the Rural Poverty, under Executive Order Number 11306, in the 1960s to counsel him and develop recommendations concerning legislative actions to be taken as a part of his administration’s War on Poverty. This particular commission was charged with the responsibility of evaluating one of the most difficult social problems in the United States—rural poverty.
The Commission...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1966-1967
National Conference of Church-Related Colleges
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.36
Abstract
The National Conference of Church-Related Colleges was created in 1934 out of resolutions adopted by College Department of the Council of Church Boards of Education and the Liberal Arts College Movement. The goal of forming the Conference was to create a more effective agency to directly serve the causes and needs of church-related colleges.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1932-1935
Navy V-12 Berea College Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.05
Abstract
During the advent of World War II, the U.S. Navy turned to liberal arts colleges to provide a basic education for their recruits. Between July 1, 1943, and June 30, 1946, more than 125,000 individuals were enrolled in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which was offered in 131 colleges and universities throughout the United States. The purpose of the V-12 program was to grant bachelor'sdegrees to future officers from both the U.S. Navy and the Marine Corps. Berea College took part in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1943-2011; Other: Majority of material found in 1943-1945
Paul David Nelson papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.33
Abstract
Papers of Paul David Nelson, history professor at Berea College from 1970 to 2005.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1970-2021
New Military and Rail Road Map of the United States
Item — Container: Map case 1, drawer 7, Folder: 9711
Identifier: 9711
Scope and Contents
New Military and Rail Road Map of the United States
Dates:
1862
New Opportunity School for Women - Berea College
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.16
Abstract
In 1987 the New Opportunity School for Women (NOSW) was founded as an outreach program of Berea College by Jane Stephenson, wife of former Berea College President John Stephenson. Stephenson recognized a chronic problem in the Appalachian region of low-income women needing to be better educated and needing assistance in the search for employment. The mission statement of the New Opportunity School for Women was “...to improve the educational, financial, and personal circumstances of...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1987-1996
New Opportunity School for Women Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0213 HC 38
Abstract
In 1987 the New Opportunity School for Women was founded by Jane Stephenson, wife of former Berea College President John Stephenson. Jane recognized a chronic problem in the Appalachian region of women needing to be better educated and needing assistance in the search for employment. The mission statement of the New Opportunity School for Women is “...to improve the educational, financial, and personal circumstances of low-income, middle-aged women in Kentucky and the south central...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1996-
New Salem Baptist Church Records
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0248 SAA 171
Abstract
The New Salem Baptist Church in Harold (Co. Floyd), Kentucky, was one of the original churches to enter into the New Salem Association of Baptists (constituted in 1825 in eastern Kentucky, armed from Burning Springs). Built about the same time as the Association’s founding, the New Salem Baptist Church was built in an area originally called Harold Gap (now referred to as Old Harold Road). Association records show that Simeon Justice, William Salisbury, and Alexander Lackey were messengers...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1872-1893
News Bureau and Public Relations Photographic Archives
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 05-5.23PA
Scope and Contents
The basis of the collection came from over 65 record boxes of negatives, slides, contact sheets, and prints of the Berea College News Bureau deposited with the archives by Berea College Public Relations between 1986 and 2012.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1975 - 2007
News Bureau Vertical Files
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.23VF
Abstract
News releases, articles and write ups of the Berea College News Bureau.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1965-1979