Women -- Appalachian Region.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Mountain Maternal Health League Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0053 SAA 053
Abstract
The League was founded in 1936 in Berea, Kentucky for the purpose of promoting birth control as a means of improving the health of mothers and children in portions of south central and eastern Kentucky. The League’s service area has included Estill, Harlan, Garrard, Jackson, Lincoln, Madison, Powell, Rockcastle, and Whitley counties. To reach rural women, League nurses traveled by auto and on horseback, delivering babies and providing birth control education. In addition, an office worker...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1936-1986
New Opportunity School for Women - Berea College
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.16
Abstract
In 1987 the New Opportunity School for Women (NOSW) was founded as an outreach program of Berea College by Jane Stephenson, wife of former Berea College President John Stephenson. Stephenson recognized a chronic problem in the Appalachian region of low-income women needing to be better educated and needing assistance in the search for employment. The mission statement of the New Opportunity School for Women was “...to improve the educational, financial, and personal circumstances of...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1987-1996
New Opportunity School for Women Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0213 HC 38
Abstract
In 1987 the New Opportunity School for Women was founded by Jane Stephenson, wife of former Berea College President John Stephenson. Jane recognized a chronic problem in the Appalachian region of women needing to be better educated and needing assistance in the search for employment. The mission statement of the New Opportunity School for Women is “...to improve the educational, financial, and personal circumstances of low-income, middle-aged women in Kentucky and the south central...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1996-
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:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-2012; Other: Majority of material found in 1967-1994; Other: Date acquired: 06/11/2010