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Southeastern Kentucky Vietnam Combat Veteran's Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0152 SAA 156
Abstract
The interviews were recorded between May and September 2011 by Jerry L. Clark. Clark is a Vietnam combat veteran who grew up in Whitley County, Kentucky. After military service he completed his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees and worked as a clinical social worker for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2011-2012
Southern Appalachian Studies Records (1962 Survey)
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0004 SAA 003
Abstract
The Southern Appalachian Studies 1972 Regional Survey resulted from the 1956 Interdenominational Conference of Religious Workers' determination that there was inadequate information available to develop an effective course of action addressing the broad problems plaguing the Appalachian region and its people. The original conference of representatives from major church bodies were called together by Dr. Willis D. Weatherford, Sr. to discuss problems and plan programs orientated to upgrading...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1956-1962; Other: Majority of material found in 1962
Southern Music and Radio Photographic Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0082 SAA 082
Scope and Contents
The photographs in this collection relate primarily to radio music performers of bluegrass or traditional Appalachian music and stations in the region that featured them. Many of the performers documented in the Berea College Appalachian Sound Archives are subjects of the photographs in this collection. Most of the photographs are publicity photos; some are autographed. Notable subjects include: Roy Acuff, the Briar Hoppers, Lester Flatt, Red Foley, Doc Hopkins, Homer...
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Southern Regional Council Appalachian Desegregation Survey Records
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0055 SAA 055
Abstract
In 1954 the Southern Regional Council (SRC) contacted Berea College professor of sociology Roscoe Giffin proposing that he survey attitudes in southern Appalachia about the U. S. Supreme Court's recent desegregation decision, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Giffin declined; however, he recommended a Berea colleague in the Economics and Business department, Robert Menefee for the work. Giffin's recommendation was accepted, and Menefee was...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1953-1954
Special Learning Opportunities Committee
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.39
Abstract
Established in 1989, the Special Learning Opportunities Committee was established to deal with learning opportunities outside established programs and courses regularly offered during Fall and Spring academic terms. Within its purview were Short Term courses, Independent Majors, Independent Studies, and Field Study projects. The Committee also reviewed policies and practices for the programs, proposing modifications to the Academic Program Council.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1989-1996
Sprague-Smith Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0237 HC 62
Abstract
Isabelle Sprague-Smith was a painter, art activist, and art educator including art instructor and principal at the Veltin School for Girls in New York City from 1900-25. Sprague-Smith was also Director of the MacDowell Association in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and founder of the Bach Festival in Winter Park, Florida. Her daughter, Hilda, writer of most of the texts contained within the collection, graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1909 with a degree in History, Economics and Politics....
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1904-1938
S.S. Berea Victory
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.17
Abstract
The S.S. Berea Victory, built by the Permanente Metals Corporation, was launced from shipyard number 2 in Richmond (CA) on March 3, 1945.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1945-1988
John Bell Stephenson papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.07
Abstract
Official records and personal papers of the seventh president of Berea College, John Bell Stephenson.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1984 - 1994
Steve Ledford Home Recordings Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0138 SAA 138
Abstract
Steve Ledford started playing fiddle at age seven and performed extensively in his home community with his father and sisters. In 1929 as part of the Carolina Ramblers String Band, he played on radio in New York City where the group also made 20 recordings for the American Record Company.
In subsequent years, back in North Carolina, he played with several other notable early country music artists including Wade Mainer, Zeke Morris, Clyde Moody, Jay Hugh and Roy Hall. With these musicians,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1958-1980
Steve Rice Kentucky Fiddle Music Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0091 SAA 091
Scope and Contents
Forty-four audio field recordings (1990’s) of interviews and performances that document the repertoire and playing styles of several Kentucky fiddlers, mainly from the state’s south central region. Also Included are video recordings of the Swallowfield Church of Christ (Owen County) Bicentennial Celebration.Listen To...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1990-1999