Appalachia -- Education.
Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
African American Schools
File — Box 2: Series Series 1
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1968-2000
Luther M. Ambrose papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.53
Abstract
Papers of Luther Martin Ambrose including his work as a faculty member at Berea College and as an education consultant in Eastern Kentucky and internationally.
Dates:
1915 - 1980
Extension Services Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.45
Abstract
Berea College's Extension Services provided short-term, informal educational programming and services, primarily in adult education, both on and off campus, to persons living in communities around Berea (including the mountain regions as far away as West Virginia). Programming included Opportunity Schools (held both on campus and in other communities), lectures, and the publication of pamphlets, bulletins and leaflets on a variety of topics.
Information regarding the Berea Opportunity...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1898-1958
Fu Liang Chang papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.06
Abstract
Papers of Fu Liang Chang.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1952-1984
Hazel Green Academy records (SIA copies)
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0046-SAA 046
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of photographs and microfilmed records documenting the history and operation of the Hazel Green Academy at Hazel Green in Wolfe County, Kentucky 1886-1982. After the Academy's closing in 1982, the original records and photographs were transferred to Berea College and comprise the Hazel Green Academy Collection, SAA 38.Use BCA 0249 SAA 038 instead of this collection. The finding guide can be found at: ...
Dates:
1886 - 1982
Pine Mountain Settlement School Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0042 SAA 042
Abstract
Kentuckian Katherine Pettit and Smith College Graduate Ethel DeLong finalized the incorporation of Pine Mountain Settlement School (Harland County, Kentucky) in 1913. Land for the school was donated by William and Sally Dixon Creech, early settlers who wanted wider educational opportunities for area children. Katherine Pettit had helped found Hindman Settlement School in 1902. As stated in its Article of Incorporation, the purpose of Pine Mountain Settlement School was to provide an...
Dates:
1913 - 1984
Settlement Institutions of Appalachia Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0038 SAA 036
Abstract
The Settlement Institutions of Appalachia (SIA) was founded in 1970 as a non-profit consortium of private service institutions in South Central Appalachia. Leaders of the twelve founding institutions envisioned it as a mechanism to facilitate exchange of ideas, cooperation in program development and fund raising.
The first executive committee of the board of directors consisted of Chairman, John Ramsay - John C. Campbell Folk School; vice-chairman, Robert Fulton - Henderson Settlement;...
Dates:
1970-1982
Summer Puppetry Caravan for Appalachia Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 11-11.03
Abstract
A Summer Puppetry Caravan for Appalachia was created by director Neil di Teresa, professor of art at Berea College, in 1969. Initially funded by Berea College and the Rockefeller Foundation, the Caravan received additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Arts Commission, the Kentucky Humanities Council, and other private organizations.The aim of the Caravan was “to involv[e] Appalachians in Cultural and creative activities, to develo[p] a sense of...
Dates:
1970 - 1993; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2009
Urban Appalachian Council Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0151 SAA 160
Abstract
Papers of the Urban Appalachian Council (UAC), Cincinnati, OH, 1974-2014
Dates:
1930-2012; Other: Majority of material found in 1967-1994; Other: Date acquired: 06/11/2010
Pat Wear papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.55
Abstract
These are the papers of Dr. Pat Wear.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1955-1979