Fifty Years of Segregation: Black Higher Education in Kentucky, 1904-1954 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813120249)

" 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
ISBN-10: 0813120241
ISBN-13: 9780813120249
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 10/16/1997
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.76h x 5.78w x 0.80d