Title

Berea College-Coeducationally and Racially Integrated: An Unlikely Contingency in the 1850s

Authors

Richard E. Day, Eastern Kentucky UniversityFollow

Department

Curriculum and Instruction

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Abstract

In this paper we consider the anti-slavery ministry of Rev. John G. Fee and the unlikely establishment of Berea College in Kentucky in the 1850s; the first college in the southern United States to be coeducationally and racially integrated. The Berea case illustrates how early twentieth century legal institutions were suffused with racism and justifications for racial discrimination even to the extent that they neutered the laws intended to provide redress to black citizens, while the court approved of racial prejudice as a natural protection from what it considered to be an unnatural amalgamation.

Comments

Reprinted with permission from The Journal of Negro Education, Volume 82, Number 1, ©2013. For more information please visit www.journalnegroed.org http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.7709/jnegroeducation.82.1.0035?uid=3739584&uid=2134&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21102548990163

Journal Title

Journal of Negro Education

Recommended Citation

Day, Richard E., R Cleveland, and J Hyndman. (2012) Berea College-coeducationally and racially Integrated: An unlikely contingency in the 1850s. The Journal of Negro Education, 82 (1), 35-46.