An index of Appalachia related articles published in the Louisville Courier-Journal. The articles cover a broad range of topics, focusing specifically on their application in Appalachia; topics include literacy, family structure, agriculture, and...
Topics include the importance of improved rural school houses, Mountain feuds, some celebrations of the Lincoln Centennial, and "Hardshell" Baptists. (31 pages)
Correspondence; Social equality; Prejudice; Lincoln Institute (Simpsonville, Ky.)
Letter from John J. Barret to President William Goodell Frost; In this letter Barret tells Frost that he feels Berea College will be making a mistake if they have both African American and white teachers. He feels that only white teachers should...
Correspondence; Lincoln Institute (Simpsonville, Ky.)
Letter from Hallie Fee Embree to the Lincoln Institute; Hallie Fee Embree sends this letter to the Lincoln Institute in the hope that they have received the portraits of her grandparents, and describes the devotion to God they had in their lives....
Berea College -- Students -- Yearbooks; College Yearbooks
This 100th Anniversary Edition includes a brief history of the college (p. 6-11). The international students of the Senior class are: Cheng-Yin Cheng from Hsinchu, Formosa, Constantine Cappas from Athens, Greece, Alice Chen from Taipei, China, Yoon...
Berea College -- History; Frost, William G. (William Goodell), 1854-1938; Hutchins, William J. (William James), 1871-1958; Hutchins, Francis S. (Francis Stephenson), 1902-1988; Weatherford, Willis Duke, 1916-1995; Stephenson, John B., 1937-1994;...
This 16-page article by retired Berea College history professor Richard Drake appeared in Appalachian Heritage, Vol. 26, no. 3, Summer 1998 (pp. 6-21). In response to contemporary comments and criticisms of the College's commitment and...
Topics include Peasons Hall, Young Southern Leaders, the family of Vincent and Jane Morris, Illiteray among Kentucky Whites, and Appalachia America (reprint of Frost's article from Encyclopedia Americana). (31 pages)
Topics include a social survey of the Kentucky mountain region, efficiency in school expenditures (Berea specifically), and a Chapel address by President Frost, "The Treasures of Youth." (32 pages)
Correspondence; Berea College; Kentucky. Constitution (1891); Taxation; Kentucky -- Laws, statues, etc. -- Day Law, 1904; Lincoln Institute (Simpsonville, Ky.)
Letter from J.A. Lubner to President William Goodell Frost; Lubner discusses how he feels that Kentucky owe African Americans something because of the lost opportunity to attend Berea College because of the Day Law. The letter is also talking...
Correspondence; Methodist Church; Baptists; African Americans -- Charitable Contributions; Whites--United States--Charitable Contributions; Lincoln Institute (Simpsonville, Ky.)
Letter from James Bond to William Goodell Frost; This letter from James Bond is talking about collecting pledges from the people of Kentucky to support Berea College. He discusses how the African American population is more willing to give than...
Correspondence; Berea College; Lincoln Institute (Simpsonville, Ky.);
Letter from Henry W. Bond to President William Goodell Frost; Bond is telling Frost how appreciative the African American population of Kentucky is of Berea College. He also sends his regrets of the insults and treatment of many people that...
This is a history of the Berea College Library from 1870-1980. It discusses the many different changes that occurred in the library over the years. Also, it explains the transitions between librarians and buildings. The history tells of both the...
