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African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Allen Wright Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.60
Abstract

Wright was the chair of Natural History at Berea College from 1870 to 1872. A few years after leaving Berea, he would be appointed professor of Geology and Natural History at Oberlin College.  While at Berea College, Wright also served as the faculty meeting clerk. On September 21, 1874, he married Mary Lyon Bedortha (1846-1877), of Saratoga Springs, New York.  Professor Albert Allen Wright died April 2, 1905.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1870-1871

Blacks at Berea

 Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.07
Scope and Contents

A collection of materials documenting the history of blacks at Berea College as well as race relations at the College. Materials include clippings, notes, writings, correspondence, College memorandum and notices, and other.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1836-1972

A.A. (Angus Augustus) Burleigh papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.06
Abstract

Papers of Angus Augustus (A.A.) Burleigh.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1867-1938

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

Lincoln Institute Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.02
Abstract 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 Lincoln to be a college as well as a high school, but by the 1930s it gave up its junior college...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2003 - 2008

Middletown School, 1991

 File — Box 81: Series 6, Folder: 6
Identifier: Folder 6
Scope and Contents

Seven black and white 5 x 7 inch photographs of Middletown School taken in 1991 prior to renovation of the building and grounds by Berea College. Middletown Consolidated School was a Rosenwald schoolhouse built for the use of African American children in 1927.

Dates: 1991