Kentucky Day Law.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
William Goodell Frost papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.03
Abstract
This collection consists of official and personal papers of, William Goodell Frost, who served as Berea College's third president from 1892 to 1920.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860-1955; Other: Majority of material found within 1860-1894
Francis S. Hutchins papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.05
Abstract
Official records and personal papers of the fifth president of Berea College, Francis S. Hutchins.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1924-1979
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
Lincoln Institute collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.29
Abstract
The Lincoln Institute was an all-black boarding high school in Simpsonville, Kentucky, near Louisville, that operated from 1912 to 1966. The school was created by the trustees of Berea College after the Kentucky State Legislature passed the Day Law (1904) putting an end to the racially integrated education at Berea that had existed since the end of the Civil War. The founders originally intended the institute to be a college as well as a high school, but by the 1930s it gave up its junior...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1905 - 2023
Office of the Vice President for Finance
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.19
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Office of the Vice President of Finance
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1858-