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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.
Berea College is a private liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky. Founded in 1855, Berea College was the first college in the Southern United States to be coeducational and racially integrated. [5] It was integrated from as early as 1866 until 1904, and again after 1954. [6]
In the late 1960s, the city of Berea and Berea College worked together to build a new school to replace the city system schools, Berea Elementary and High School, and the college owned schools, Knapp Hall and Berea Foundation School. College-owned property along Walnut Meadow road was chosen as the site for the new school. Construction of the ...
OpEd: We are still audacious enough to think Berea College has something to offer the world of higher education, which continues to struggle with issues like diversity, access, support, belonging ...
Jun. 11—BEREA — On Friday, Berea College announced the start of a $10 million campaign to build two new tech buildings. According to school officials, the buildings will be home to computer ...
The college also took initiatives to support women, including Jane Stephenson's New Opportunity School for Women. [4] Faculty and staff salaries were increased significantly. John Stephenson established ties with a diverse group of notable people whom he brought to speak at Berea College, from Roots author Alex Haley , and Archbishop Desmond ...
What greets you upon entering the lobby of Berea College’s Hutchins Library is something of a living scrapbook. To your left: album covers tracing roughly five decades of music summoned by Janis ...
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