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Founded in 1855 by the abolitionist and Augusta College graduate John Gregg Fee (1816–1901), Berea College admitted both black and white students in a fully integrated curriculum, making it the first non-segregated, coeducational college in the South and one of a handful of institutions of higher learning to admit both male and female students in the mid-19th century. [10]
Berea (/ b ə ˈ r iː ə / bə-REE-ə) is a home rule-class city [4] in Madison County, Kentucky, in the United States.The town is best known for its art festivals, historic restaurants and buildings, and as the home to Berea College, a private liberal arts college.
Lincoln Institute was an all-black boarding high school in Shelby County, Kentucky from 1912 to 1966. The school was created by the trustees of Berea College after the Day Law passed the Kentucky Legislature in 1904. It put an end to the racially integrated education at Berea that had lasted since the end of the Civil War.
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What greets you upon entering the lobby of Berea College’s Hutchins Library is something of a living scrapbook. To your left: album covers tracing roughly five decades of music summoned by Janis ...
In the late 1960s, the city of Berea and Berea College worked together to build a new school to replace the city system schools, Berea Elementary and High School, and the college owned schools, Knapp Hall and Berea Foundation School. College-owned property along Walnut Meadow road was chosen as the site for the new school. Construction of the ...
When our class chose our timely graduation theme in 1974 – “We May Never Pass This Way Again” – after Seals & Croft’s iconic ditty, we weren’t aware at the time how ironic it would become.
Lincoln Hall is the administrative center of Berea College in Berea, Kentucky.Built in 1887 and named in honor of Abraham Lincoln, it was declared to be a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1974 in recognition of the college's role as the first school of higher education in the nation established to provide a racially integrated educational environment.