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