Fifty Years of Segregation: Black Higher Education in Kentucky, 1904-1954

" 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. Like black Americans everywhere who fought overseas during World War II, Kentucky's blacks were increasingly dissatis

Author: John A. Hardin
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 10/16/1997
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.76h x 5.78w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780813120249

About the Author

John A. Hardin is associate professor of history at Western Kentucky University.

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