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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\"\"Dr. Richard Drake (1925 \u2013 2019) first came to Berea in 1956, where he finished his dissertation over the American Missionary Association<\/a> (AMA), a group of abolitionists that supported Berea College,\u00a0 John G. Fee, and African-American education after the War. Dr. Drake was one of the first people to look at the AMA archives, his interests being sparked when he was younger due to the fact that his father was a congregational minister. When the history chairman retired in 1959, teaching the Kentucky history course fell to Dr. Drake.\u00a0 He decided that Appalachian history would be more appropriate and prepared his own materials for class, eventually assembling a collection for use by the Appalachian Volunteers. He later published A History of Appalachia <\/em>with the University Press of Kentucky in 2001.\u00a0 His classes doubled over time in size as the bias against Appalachia lessened. In the 1960s, Dr. Drake joined the Council of Southern Mountains because \u201cit was a good ol\u2019 Appalachian conversation that I believed in.\u201d Dr. Drake led the natural resources commission, doing what he could to ease coal miners\u2019 problems.\u00a0 \u00a0In the late 60s, Drake heavily advocated for the college to start the Appalachian Center.\u00a0 He would go on to chair the first Appalachian Studies Conference in 1977 and again in 1984.\u00a0\u00a0His advocacy was crucial in establishing the Appalachian Center and Appalachian Studies, and his hopes that new Berea College students would be friendly to the idea of the Appalachian way of looking at things is closer today than ever.<\/p>\n

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