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Berea College Historical Register/Alumni Directory
Collection
Identifier: RG 12-12.26
Scope and Contents
Various historical registers and alumni directories of Berea College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1916-1995
Black Cultural Center
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.50
Abstract
In 1983, Berea College established the Black Cultural Center (BCC) with the philosophy that true integration and equality cannot happen without awareness, understanding, and appreciation of black culture. Over three decades later, the philosophical foundation of the Black Cultural Center has not changed and it continues to support the historic commitments of Berea College – in particular the commitment:
“To assert the kinship of all people and to provide interracial education with a...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1979-
Blacks at Berea
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.07
Scope and Contents
A collection of materials documenting the history of blacks at Berea College as well as race relations at the College. Materials include clippings, notes, writings, correspondence, College memorandum and notices, and other.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1836-1972
Francis S. Hutchins Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.05
Abstract
Francis Stephenson Hutchins (b. 1902), a native of Northfield, Massachusetts, was educated at Oberlin College (A.B., 1923) and Yale University (M.A., 1933). Having worked in China as an undergraduate, Hutchins returned to China as an instructor in 1925 as part of the Yale-in-China Association's educational mission. Forced to leave China in 1939 during the Japanese invasion, Hutchins was appointed president of Berea College to succeed his father—William J. Hutchins. Hutchins served as...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1924-1979
Henry Allen Laine Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.16
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of records and materials documenting the life and work of Berea College graduate and civil rights leader Henry Allen Laine. Materials include biographical sketches, copies of correspondence, a copy of "Foot Prints," Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame support letters and materials, and Laine's Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame plaque.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1908-2009; Other: Date acquired: 10/08/2009
Kentucky Day Law and Berea College
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