Helen Dingman Papers 1917-1945.

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Helen Dingman Papers 1917-1945.

Diaries, correspondence, reports, notes, and photographs mainly documenting Helen Dingman's community organizing and educational efforts in Harlan County, Kentucky during the early 1900s.

0.4 linear ft. (1 mss box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7647862

Berea College, Hutchins Library

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Council of the Southern Mountains

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The Council of the Southern Mountains was established as the result of fact-finding efforts by John C. and Olive Dame Campbell during the early 1900s. The organization's first annual meeting was held in 1912. Its original purpose was to provide a means of information sharing and cooperation among Appalachian social services, church, and school workers. Olive Campbell followed her husband as Council Executive Secretary, serving from 1919 to 1928. Others in that position include Helen Dingman, 192...

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Helen Hastie Dingman (1885-1978), a New York State native, came to Kentucky in 1917 to head the Presbyterian Church sponsored Community Life School at Smith in Harlan County. In 1922, she moved to New York City where she served two years as Assistant Superintendent of Field Work for the Women's Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). In 1924, she joined the Berea College Sociology Department, where she pioneered courses in family welfare, social work, and marriage and the fam...

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