Kentucky Day Law.

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The weightage of the folder includes administrative and legal correspondence pertaining to the questioning of and gradual legal weaking of the Day Law legislation, enabling Berea College to enroll Black students. Also included are national and local civil rights campaign material mainly focused on the national campaign for educational equality.

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Official records and personal papers of the fifth president of Berea College, Francis S. Hutchins.

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...

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The Lincoln Institute collection is a aggregation of documents and images by and about Lincoln Institute that have been collected by Hutchins Library staff members as a topical research resource.

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Records of the Berea College Office of the Vice President of Finance

Scope and Contents (1) "Victory in Sight - The Crucial Point of a Great Campaign" regarding Adjustment Fund. (2) Notice regarding July 24, 1908 Educational Platform Meeting with James Bond delivering address "The Progress of the Negro Race." (3)Notice for Simmon's Memorial Day, Eckstein Norton Institute, 1911. (4)Written piece (dated Oct. 13, 1909) by James Bond "What Education Does for the Negro" (speaking of Berea students Robert H Roysten and Charity...

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This collection consists of official and personal papers of, William Goodell Frost, who served as Berea College's third president from 1892 to 1920.