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The Day Law mandated racial segregation in educational institutions in Kentucky.Formally designated "An Act to Prohibit White and Colored Persons from Attending the Same School," the bill was introduced in the Kentucky House of Representatives by Carl Day (D) in January 1904, and signed into law by Governor J.C.W. Beckham in March 1904.
Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools: Fighting for Literacy in America (University Press of Kentucky, 2006) Birdwhistell, Terry L. "Divided We Fall: State College and the Normal School Movement in Kentucky, 1880–1910." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 88.4 (1990): 431–456. online; Cone, Carl B.
Throughout Kentucky there were measures other than school systems taking part in segregation. The Eastern State Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky segregated the mentally ill patients. There were residential segregation ordinances passed in Madisonville, Kentucky and Louisville, Kentucky, continuing the divide of whites and Blacks. Later on, in ...
Pages in category "Historically segregated African-American schools in Kentucky" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Racial segregation in schools existed throughout most of American history and remains an issue in contemporary education. During the Civil Rights Movement school integration became a priority, but since then de facto segregation has again become prevalent. [1] School segregation declined rapidly during the late 1960s and early 1970s. [2]
The first Moonlight School was created in September 1911, in Rowan County, Kentucky by Cora Wilson Stewart, then a superintendent in the Rowan County Schools. [1] Adults would attend school at night in the buildings where children studied during the day.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
Central Colored School opened on October 7, 1873, and was located at Sixth and Kentucky. It became the first African-American high school in the state of Kentucky when high school classes were added. [2] [3] The first class of students enrolled was 87 pupils and they received 2 years of high school-level education. [2]