Berea v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
Berea College
A private school founded in 1855, Berea College was the first college established in the U.S. for the specific purpose of educating black and white students together. In 1904 the Kentucky state legislature mandated that black and white students could only be taught simultaneously if they were taught twenty-five miles apart. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the state’s right to pass laws to regulate state chartered private institutions based on race, thus lending additional credence to do the same for public schools. This is the only instance in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld school segregation in higher education. - Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator. Berea College, Lincoln Hall, Berea College, Berea, Madison County, KY. Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress,: www.loc.gov/item/ky0189/
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