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Fifty Years of Segregation
John A Hardin
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Description for Fifty Years of Segregation
Num Pages: 8 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSJ; JFSL3; JNM; JNSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
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 dissatisfied with their second-class educational opportunities. In 1948, they financed litigation to end segregation, and the following year Lyman Johnson sued the University ... Read more
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 dissatisfied with their second-class educational opportunities. In 1948, they financed litigation to end segregation, and the following year Lyman Johnson sued the University ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
8
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813120249
SKU
V9780813120249
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99-26
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