Universities and colleges--Finance; Universities and colleges--Endowments; Segregation in education; Berea (Ky.); Berea College
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
Between March 10, 1904 and 1973
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 69
Note (Status of gift)
Promised and made
Note
PDF may contain multiple grant documents.
Date based on grant approval.
Note (Historical note)
Founded in 1855, Berea College is distinctive among post-secondary institutions for providing free education to students and for having been the first college in the Southern United States to be coeducational and racially integrated...Almost all the p rivate and state colleges in the South were racially segregated. Berea was the main exception until a new state law in 1904 forced its segregation. The college challenged the law in state court and further appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in Berea College v. Kentucky. When the challenge failed, the college had to become a segregated school, but it set aside funds to help establish the Lincoln Institute near Louisville to educate black students. In 1950, when the law was amended to allow integration of schools at the college level, Berea promptly resumed its integrated policies." [SOURCE: "Berea College." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berea_College. Accessed 6 Aug. 2018.] "The Trustees of Berea College to-day received and accepted a gift of $30,000 from Andrew Carnegie. The gift is prompted, it is thought, by the action of the Kentucky Legislature in passing a bill prohibiting the coeducation of whites and blacks. Berea is not only the only coeducational institution in Kentucky, and therefore the object of the bill, but it is the largest in the South." [SOURCE: Special to The New,York Times. "CARNEGIE GIVES TO BEREA." New York Times (1857-1922), Mar 31, 1904, pp. 2. ProQuest, http://ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/96400498?accountid=10226. Accessed 6 Aug. 2018.] "Andrew Carnegie has contributed liberally to the defense sum which the trustees of Berea College have raised to fight in the United Sates Supreme Court, recently passed by the Kentucky Legislature, to prevent co-racial education, on the ground that it is unconstitutional." [SOURCE: "CARNEGIE'S MONEY IN CO-RACIAL FIGHT." St.Louis Post - Dispatch (1879-1922), Apr 03, 1904, pp. 1. ProQuest, http://ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/579667345?accountid=10226. Accessed 6 Aug. 2018.] "The announcement was made yesterday by President William G. Frost of Berea College, in Eastern Kentucky, of a gift to that institution of $200,000 by Andrew Carnegie...According to Mr. Frost this is the largest sum given at one time by Mr. Carnegie for college educational purposes...This adjustment, from which the fund takes its name, was made necessary because of a new law requiring a separation of the negroes from the whites in the State educational institutions...To meet the immediate embarrassment occasioned by the new law, a part of the income of this money has been used to assist former colored students of Berea to attend Fisk University, Hampton, Knoxville, and other schools." [SOURCE: "$200,000 TO BEREA FROM MR. CARNEGIE." New York Times (1857-1922), Jan 25, 1908, pp. 1. ProQuest, http://ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/96822592?accountid=10226. Accessed 6 Aug. 2018.]