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Box 1

 Container

Contains 6 Results:

Day Law Appeals, 1904-1905

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Copies of court filings and decisions

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1904-1905

Day Law Apeals, 1905-1906

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Copies of court filings and decisions

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1905-1906

Day Law Appeals, 1905-1908

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Copies of court filings and decisions

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1905-1908

Booklet: "Supreme Court Decision on Day Law"

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Small collection of items documenting Berea College's attempts at appealing the Day Law that was signed into law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky in March of 1904.

Dates: 1904 - 2005

Berea College and the Day Law

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: Folder 5
Scope and Contents

Includes: Clippings, articles, writings, publications and appeals against the Day Law, information about re-integration of Berea College in 1950, copies of the Day Law act, bibliography

Dates: 1904 - 2005

Kentucky Day Law and Berea College

 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 - 2005