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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
Willis D. Weatherford, Sr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.56
Abstract
Willis D. Weatherford, Sr., was president of the Blue Ridge Assembly, Black Mountain, N.C., 1906-1944; president of the Y.M.C.A. Graduate School, Nashville, 1919-1946; trustee of Berea College, Berea, Ky., 1916-ca. 1962; faculty member of Fisk University, 1936-1946; director of the Southern Appalachian Studies Project, 1956-1968; and lifelong student of race relations in the South.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1915-1970