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African Americans.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Allen Wright Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.60
Abstract

Wright was the chair of Natural History at Berea College from 1870 to 1872. A few years after leaving Berea, he would be appointed professor of Geology and Natural History at Oberlin College.  While at Berea College, Wright also served as the faculty meeting clerk. On September 21, 1874, he married Mary Lyon Bedortha (1846-1877), of Saratoga Springs, New York.  Professor Albert Allen Wright died April 2, 1905.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1870-1871

Bibliographies: Blacks / African Americans

 File — Box 24, Folder: 5
Identifier: Folder 5
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This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.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

Blacks (African Americans)

 File — Box 26, Folder: 1-6
Identifier: Folders 1-6
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This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.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

Box 26: Blacks (African Americans)

 Box — Box 26
Identifier: 26
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This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.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

Celebration of Traditional Music

 Collection — 6.12 Oversized Posters
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.5
Abstract

Records documenting the Celebration of Traditional Music, an annual event striving to represent homemade music passed on from person to person in the Appalachian Region and the musicians who play it.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1974 -

Correspondence, 1893

 File — Box 4: Series 2, Folder: 8
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents Box 4, File 8: 1. William G. Frost letter to Leavitt, 1893 January 28 2. William G. Frost letter to William E. Barton, 1893 February 6 3. J. A. R. Rogers letter to William G. Frost, 1893 February 17 4. William G. Frost letter to friend, writing from Berea about his wife being ill, 1893 March 3 5. William G. Frost letter to Miles, 1893 March 8 6. F. G. Wright letter to William G. Frost, 1893 March 18 7. J. D. Walsh letter to William G. Frost, 1893...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1893

Correspondence, 1894

 File — Box 4: Series 2, Folder: 9
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents Box 4, File 9: 1. William G. Frost letter to Frederick Douglass (copy), 1894 January 23 2. Frederick Douglass letter to William G. Frost, 1894 January 26 3. E. P. Fairchild letter to William G. Frost, 1894 January 29 4. W. G. V. Bartlett letter to William G. Frost, 1894 February 8 5. John Bennett letter to William G. Frost, 1894 February 8 6. August E. Willson letter to William G. Frost, 1894 February 8 7. G. W. Cable letter to William G. Frost, 1894...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1894

Griggs Correspondence with Whitney M. Young, 1946

 File — Box 1: Series 5, Folder: 19
Identifier: 5
Scope and Contents

First African American president, led Lincoln Institute for over 40 years. Regarding education of blacks at Berea College, Mary Merrit, effect of Day Law on education opportunities of blacks in Kentucky.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1946

Griggs Corrpespondence with Carter G. Woodson, 1946

 File — Box 1: Series 5, Folder: 18
Identifier: Folder 18
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Notes and correspondence of Katharine C. Griggs in her role as Historical Register; Researching "certain phases of Berea history" and gathering materials and historical information regarding racial relations and black students (pre-Day Law) at Berea College.

Some of the correspondence within this series is available in digital format, see list below.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1946

Henry Allen Laine writing about the women teachers of Berea, 1926

 Item — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3; Series 4; Series 5, Folder: 16
Identifier: Item 4
Scope and Contents

Henry Allen Laine, a black student who became a teacher, writing about the women teachers of Berea in the late 19th century, including Mrs. Eugene Fairchild.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1926