Not to be confused with Berea Academy in Natal, South Africa[1] where cricketer [lPercy Sherwell attended
Normal Department of Berea College?
Berea Academy was a school in Berea, Kentucky.
Normal School.[2] The school served mountain youth both black and white.[3] The Day Law in 1904 outlawed integrated schools in Kentucky.
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co-ed?[4]
It became Berea Foundation. It had a rivalry with Berea High School, the city high school that was established, until they merged in 1968 to become Berea Community High School.[5]
Alumni
edit- Howard J. McMurray
- William Henry DeWitt Berea Academy, Tennessee????
- Edwin Embree
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "The Natal Who's who: An Illustrated Biographical Sketch Book of Natalians". 1906.
- ^ "Bulletin". 1922.
- ^ Burns, Gary (4 October 2016). Shipmates: The Men of LCS 52 in World War II. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-2646-8.
- ^ Burnside, Jacqueline Grisby (2007). Berea and Madison County. Arcadia. ISBN 978-0-7385-4432-8.
- ^ Grise, Robert N. (24 July 2012). Madison's Heritage Rediscovered: Stories from a Historic Kentucky County. Arcadia. ISBN 978-1-61423-614-6.