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

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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 bla...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hardin, John A., 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Segregation in higher education.
African American universities and colleges.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Universites noires americaines > Kentucky > Histoire.
Segregation dans l'enseignement superieur > Kentucky > Histoire.
African American universities and colleges > Kentucky > History.
Segregation in higher education > Kentucky > History.
Kentucky.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Hardening the Color Line, 1904-1910; 2 Acceptance of Civil Racism, 1910-1930; 3 Hopes, Reforms, and Resistance, 1930-1939; 4 Separate and Unequal, 1940-1948; 5 Desegregated but Still Separate, 1949-1954; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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