Civil rights -- United States -- History.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Berea College Selma to Montgomery Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.06
Abstract
Berea students, faculty, and staff, along with many others, had previously participated in a 1964 march on the state capitol in Frankfort to lobby the Kentucky legislature to pass civil rights legislation.
On March 7,1965, a small group of Bereans took part in a King-led march that had to turn back before arriving at Montgomery—during which a white minister from Boston was killed.
The subsequent five-day march of March 21st through the 25th drew more than 25,000 participants. Fifty-eight...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 2004
Julia Allen Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.01
Abstract
Julia Allen (1896-1974) was recruited to Berea College in 1932 as Assistant Dean of Women to succeed Katherine Bowersox, who had been Dean of Women since 1907. A Kentucky native, Allen studied at both Mt. Holyoke and the University of Chicago. Allen also had worked in a factory, tutored Italian children in Chicago, and directed YWCA summer camps. For five years she had taught Chinese girls at a mission school in Nanking. Her genuine interest in the students, her humor, intellect, and strong...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1935-1974; Other: Majority of material found within 1935-1939