Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education
Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education
The Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education fosters communication about Berea’s Fifth Great Commitment:
To assert the kinship of all people and provide interracial education with a particular emphasis on understanding and equality among blacks and whites as a foundation for building community among all peoples of the earth.
We promote social and cultural change and exchange that underscores our institutional motto: “God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth” (Acts 17:26).
In our service to faculty, staff, students and community, we offer various programs and events in the Center. The Center is in the Alumni Building on Berea’s campus.
Our Mission
Founded in 2011, the Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education at Berea College focuses our work on the interrelationship of race and poverty through coalition building. Overall, our goal is to build coalitions for anti-racism in the wider area of Central and Eastern Kentucky.
Read more on the inclusive mission of Berea College.
Civil Rights Tour
The Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education and the College pay for faculty and staff to participate, and even allows partners and spouses to attend space permitting. It also sponsors similar experiences for students.
The Civil Rights Tour includes a week of travel to various locations associated with the Civil Rights movement, including stops in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Along the way, participants toured Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth home, attended church service at Faith Chapel in Birmingham, and visited Civil Rights institutes and museums in Birmingham, Montgomery, Selma, and Jackson. The tour also featured a special stop at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of the Selma to Montgomery Marches.
Read personal accounts of the Civil Rights Seminar and Tour in the Berea College Magazine.
Programs
Conversations on Race
The Center hosts several opportunities to discuss racial issues.
PACE: Keep Moving Toward Justice
PACE: Keep Moving Toward Justice focuses on our work on four pillars: Poverty, Anti-Racism, Coalition building, and Education.
Diversity Peer Education Training
Diversity Peer Education Training (DPET) Team consists of students who conduct peer education and promotion of diversity.
TRUTH Talks
True Racial Understanding through Honest Talks are collaborative programs.
Contact Us
Berea College | CPO 2106 | Alumni Building, Main Floor | Berea, KY 40404 | 859-985-3782