Day Law

The Day Law, "An Act to Prohibit White and Colored Persons from Attending the Same School," was signed into law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky by Governor J.C.W. Beckham in March 1904. The Day Law, named after Breathitt Countian Carl Day who introduced the bill in the Kentucky House of Representatives, prohibited students of color from attending the same school as white students. Also, they could not attend schools less than twenty-five miles from a whites-only school. The Kentucky Department of Education created in 1924 a Division of Negro Education.

Day Law

The Day Law, "An Act to Prohibit White and Colored Persons from Attending the Same School," was signed into law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky by Governor J.C.W. Beckham in March 1904. The Day Law, named after Breathitt Countian Carl Day who introduced the bill in the Kentucky House of Representatives, prohibited students of color from attending the same school as white students. Also, they could not attend schools less than twenty-five miles from a whites-only school. The Kentucky Department of Education created in 1924 a Division of Negro Education.