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Founded in 1855 by the abolitionist and Augusta College graduate John Gregg Fee (1816–1901), Berea College admitted both black and white students in a fully integrated curriculum, making it the first non-segregated, coeducational college in the South and one of a handful of institutions of higher learning to admit both male and female students in the mid-19th century. [10]
Lincoln Institute was an all-black boarding high school in Shelby County, Kentucky from 1912 to 1966. The school was created by the trustees of Berea College after the Day Law passed the Kentucky Legislature in 1904. It put an end to the racially integrated education at Berea that had lasted since the end of the Civil War.
Aug. 24—Sierra Marling Berea College welcomed an additional 503 students on Wednesday for their first day of classes. Nearly half of them are from Kentucky, with the remaining 55% hailing from ...
Berea Community High School (Berea Community, BCHS or sometimes Berea Independent) is located in Berea, Kentucky, United States. Current attendance is approximately 350-400 students for grades 9 through 12.
That, in turn, brought Ian and Snyder into the orbit of Central Kentucky artists and Berea College graduates Bonnie Campbell (who Snyder had taught at Nashville’s Center for Human Development) ...
Gus LaFontaine, who heads the LaFontaine Preparatory School in Richmond for pre-kindergarten through 5th grade students, wants to open a charter school called Fontaine Charter Schools. His is the ...
The trustees of Berea College worked to build a new college that would serve the needs of Kentucky's black students seeking higher education. With a challenge grant of $200,000 from Andrew Carnegie, the trustees raised the matching funds and purchased 444.4 ac of farmland in Shelby County . [ 3 ]