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Berea College Blacks in Appalachia Symposium Collection, 1989
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.07
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of recordings documenting the event "Blacks in Appalachia - From Invisibility to Importance: A Symposium, Seminar, and Celebration" held at Berea College, May 19-20, 1989. The event marked the establishment of the Goode Professorship of Black and Appalachian Studies at Berea College.
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Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1989
Chester R. Young Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0111 SAA 111
Abstract
Chester Young was born July 2, 1920 in rural Adair County, Kentucky to parents Joseph and Sarah Young and moved to Columbia, Kentucky at the age of three. During his childhood, Young was a member of Columbia Baptist Church, the Royal Ambassadors and the Boys Scouts, later becoming a Scoutmaster and a Star Scout.Young graduated from Columbia High School in 1938, then graduated from Lindsey Wilson College in 1940, received his B.A. from Berea College in 1943 and briefly attended...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1931-1998; Other: Date acquired: 07/00/1996
Fifth National Festival of Black Storytelling Collection, 1987
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.06
Scope and Contents
This collection contains video recordings documenting the Fifth National Festival of Black Storytelling held at Berea College, November 12-14, 1987. Features of the event included concurrent storytelling sessions for various ages, the Second National Liars Contest, an informal "Swapping Ground" for storytellers, and scholarly lectures on the status of blacks in Appalachia.Among the fifteen master storytellers participating in the festival were Mary Carter Smith and Linda...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1987
Symposium on Rural Hymnody Collection, 1974-1982
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.02
Abstract
The Symposium on Rural Hymnody was hosted by Berea College on April 27-29, 1979. Follow the links in the Series 4 box list to listen to the recordings of Symposium presentations, performances, and a worship service. Presentations were given by seventeen participants. The symposium also featured performances by the A.L. Phipps Family of Knox County, Kentucky and the Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers of Dale County, Alabama. The group also traveled to Floyd County, Kentucky, to attend the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1974 - 1982; Other: Majority of material found in 1978-1982
Wilma Dykeman Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.16
Abstract
Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006) lived all her life near the French Broad River in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. Born in Asheville, Dykeman traced her interest in writing to the stories her parents read aloud to her when she was a child. By the time she was in elementary school, she was making up her own stories, plays, and poems. After graduating from high school and Biltmore Junior College in Asheville, Dykeman attended Northwestern University and received a bachelor’s degree in...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1959-1998