This article from the Berea Citizen provides an overview of the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Berea College vs. the State of Kentucky. Also included is the text of a telegram from Berea College President, William Goodell Frost in response to the...
Regarding the Day Law, this four-page pamphlet sets forth "the facts in brief" and includes an open letter to "the citizens of Richmond and Madison County."
Berea (Ky.) -- History; Women -- Education; Women; Berea College -- History; Berea College;
This 50-page booklet began as a project in Peggy Rivage-Seul's senior seminar class in Women’s Studies. The service-learning project was co-sponsored by Women’s Studies, the League of Women Voters and CELTS and includes brief essays about 25...
Berea College -- Students -- Yearbooks; College Yearbooks
This 100th Anniversary Edition includes a brief history of the college (p. 6-11). The international students of the Senior class are: Cheng-Yin Cheng from Hsinchu, Formosa, Constantine Cappas from Athens, Greece, Alice Chen from Taipei, China, Yoon...
This article covers the Frankfort visit of Berea College President and Mrs. Frost to attend the first hearing on the Day Law. It goes on to describe various responses to the bill, providing the text of a letter/petition circulated amongst the...
Fee, John Gregg, 1816-1901; Berea College -- History;
This small pamphlet was written by A. A. Burleigh, former Union soldier and graduate of Berea, about the life and accomplishments of John G. Fee, the founder of Berea College.
Berea College -- Students -- Yearbooks; College Yearbooks
This year the Day Law was eliminated and Berea College began to reestablish its inter-racial education program. This issue of the Chimes is dedicated to Dr. Elizabeth S. Peck. There are international students in the Upper Division this year: Carlos...
Berea College -- Students -- Yearbooks; College Yearbooks
This was the year that Jessie M. Reasor (Zander), the first black student accepted into the college after the discontinuation of the Day Law graduates. There was another group of international students in the graduating class of the Upper Division:...
Berea College -- History; Frost, William G. (William Goodell), 1854-1938; Hutchins, William J. (William James), 1871-1958; Hutchins, Francis S. (Francis Stephenson), 1902-1988; Weatherford, Willis Duke, 1916-1995; Stephenson, John B., 1937-1994;...
This 16-page article by retired Berea College history professor Richard Drake appeared in Appalachian Heritage, Vol. 26, no. 3, Summer 1998 (pp. 6-21). In response to contemporary comments and criticisms of the College's commitment and...
This issue of The Berea Quarterly is primarily comprised of the article, "Hostile Legislation Against Berea: A Ruthless Hand Stayed By Appeal to the Constitution," a report of the initial events involved with the Day Law.
Correspondence; Berea College; Kentucky. Constitution (1891); Taxation; Kentucky -- Laws, statues, etc. -- Day Law, 1904; Lincoln Institute (Simpsonville, Ky.)
Letter from J.A. Lubner to President William Goodell Frost; Lubner discusses how he feels that Kentucky owe African Americans something because of the lost opportunity to attend Berea College because of the Day Law. The letter is also talking...
