African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
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
Albert Allen Wright papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.60
Abstract
Collection of correspondence written by Albert Allen Wright to Mary Lyon Bedortha.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1870-1871