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Berea College -- History -- 20th century

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Kentucky Day Law and Berea College

 Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.06
Abstract The Day Law, "An Act to Prohibit White and Colored Persons from Attending the Same School," was signed into law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky by Governor J.C.W. Beckham in March 1904. The law effectively forced Berea College, the only integrated college in Kentucky, to segregate. As the bill was being debated in the Kentucky House of Representatives Committee on Education, two groups came to Frankfort to lobby the legislators. One group was led...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1904-2005

Willis D. Weatherford, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.06
Abstract

Official and personal papers of Willis D. Weatherford, Jr., sixth president of Berea College.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1966-1996

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African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky. 1
African Americans -- Segregation. 1
Day Law (Kentucky). 1
Education, Higher -- Segregation. 1
Education, Higher -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century. 1