Day Law (Kentucky).

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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.

Scope and Contents Led by the instructor Dr Jackie Burnside, the L[and]A 200A: Discoveries – All Work has Dignity class visited the Special Collections and Archives to be introduced and mentored in the analysis of primary and secondary source material. Part of their assignment was to create a single “zine” page which ultimately was revised into a “Zine Scrapbook”. The Mountain Day volume was constructed in class as a pilot exercise, aiming to showcase how visual images could be created to interpret...

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

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A thesis by Andrew J. Castrenze in the field of history for the Degree of Master of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies, Harvard University.

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