John Gregg Fee

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name = John Gregg Fee


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birth_date = birth date|1816|09|09
birth_place = Bracken County, Kentucky, United States
death_date = 1901
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education = Augusta College
Miami University
Lane Theological Seminary
Berea College (founder)
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John Gregg Fee was the founder of Berea College.

Fee was born in Germantown, Kentucky in Bracken County, Kentucky on September 9, 1816, the son of slaveholders. Following a conversion to the Christian faith, Fee became a stauch abolitionist. He received an education at Augusta College in Bracken County, Kentucky, Miami University of Ohio, and Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio. Fee returned to Kentucky, preaching against slavery, and with a land donation from Cassius M. Clay, founded Berea, Kentucky. He then founded Berea College, which became the first interracial college in the state. [ [http://www.berea.edu Berea College ] at www.berea.edu] In 1859, a band of armed men raided Berea while Fee was away, and the town was deserted. Fee lived in exile until 1864. The school then became increasingly integrated until a new president, William Goodell Frost, shifted focus toward white Appalachian students. [http://docsouth.unc.edu/fee/menu.html] Fee died in 1901.

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* [http://www.berea.edu Berea College's official site]
* [http://www.berea.edu/hutchinslibrary/specialcollections/bcarchives.asp Berea College - Berea College Archives ] at www.berea.edu Berea College Special Collections & Archives
* [http://www.berea.edu/150/timeline/ 150 Years at Berea College ] at www.berea.edu Berea College History Timeline
* http://docsouth.unc.edu/fee/menu.html University Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill] 's biography of John Gregg Fee.