Format: Hardback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780813120249
Pub Date: 16 Oct 1997
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Illustrations: photos
Description:
Kentucky was the last state in the South to introduce racially segregated schools and one of the first to break down racial barriers in higher education. The passage of the infamous Day Law in 1904 forced Berea College to exclude 174 students because of their race. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s black faculty remained unable to attend in-state graduate and professional schools.