RG 13. Associated Items
Record Group
Identifier: RG 13
Materials in these collections do not reasonably fit within the various Berea College record groups, but are intimately connected with the College's history.
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
Kentucky Day Law and Berea College collection
Collection — Box 1
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:
1904 - 2017