Race relations.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Committee for the March on Montgomery
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: RG 10-10.29
Abstract
On Thursday, March 25, 1965, fifty-eight Berea College student, faculty and staff joined 25,000 other demonstrators in the last phase of the March on Montgomery from Selma, Alabama. The trip made by students and other members of the college was neither officially recognized by the College or endorsed by the Student Association Senate.
Berea's participation in the march was organized by a committee of students which organized in response to a controversial letter from the Associate Dean of...
Dates:
1965-1989; Other: Majority of material found in 1965
Prince Edward County Students at Berea collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.39
Abstract
This small study collection contains information about a 1959-1965 American Friends Service Committee program that helped African American students from Prince Edward County, Virginia, continue their education while their local public schools were shut down. The closure of all public schools in Prince Edward County was an attempt to avoid school desegregation as required by the 1954 United States Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. Berea...
Dates:
1959 - 2005