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Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper From The name and email address of the person sending the email Groves, Walter A. To The name(s) and email address(es) of the person to whom the email was sent Faculty Members of Centre College, 1949 Institution The institution an individual is attached to, be it a university or a business. Can refer to the institution of the sender or recipient of a letter. Centre College, Danville, KY Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Male Married Faculty Member with Children Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1949-01-24 Subject The topic of the resource College Integration: Against Description An account of the resource A married male faculty member with children against integration. He did not support the admittance of "widely divergent races" to Centre College and did favor separate but equal educational facilities. 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Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Mr. Earl C. Davis Director of Admissions Centre College of Kentucky Danville, Kentucky Dear Mr. Davis: This acknowleges your letter of October 4, as follows: "We have been receiving school applications from natives of Nigeria, West Africa who desire admission to Centre College. Does your office interpret the Day Law to exclude these natives of a foreign state from admission to Centre, or to any other privately owned college in Kentucky, because of his color?” We believe that reference to the Kentucky Statutes and decisions of the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States will clarify this matter for you. The Kentucky legislature, in 1904, passed an Act, which was Chapter 85 of that year, prohibiting white and colored persons from attending the same school. The Act was approved March 22, 1904, to become effective July 15, 1904. This Act provided that any person, corporation, or association of persons who operated a school wherein the white and negro races were both received for instruction, should be fined $1000.00 and any person or corporation should be fined $100.00 for each day so operating after conviction. Any white person attending a colored school and any negro or colored person attending a white school were subject to a fine df $50.00 for each day so attended. This Act was amended in a minor way by the legislature in Chapter 24 of the Acts of 1916. The same prohibitions applied and the same penalties were invoked. This is found in Section 4526A, Carroll's Kentucky Statutes, 1930 Revision. Again, in 1934, in Chapter 65 of the Acts of that year, the legislature altered some of the language of the Act but continued all prohibitions and penalties as set out in the original 1904 Act. This is set up in Section 4363-8 Carroll's Kentucky Statutes, Baldwin's 1936 Revision. Subsequently, in 1942, when the entire body of the Kentucky Statutes was amended and revised, the section number was again changed and the language somewhat modified, although, as before, no basic change was involved and the prohibition as to teaching white and colored students in the same school was continued. The language as we find it now in the current statutes is contained in KRS 158.020. Subsection (2) provides: "No person shall operate or maintain any college, school or institution where persons of both the white and colored races are received as pupils.” (3) "No instructor shall teach in any college, school or institution where persons of both the white and colored races are received as pupils." (5) "No colored person shall attend any college, school or institution where white persons are received as pupils or receive instruction." Kentucky Revised Statutes 158.990, in setting up the penalties for the violation of the above section, provides that any person who violates "2" or "3", as above set out, shall be fined $1000.00 and $100.00 for each day after the violation occurs. Likewise, any person who violates "5" shall be fined $50.00 for each violation. It will be seen from a review of the applicable statutes that no distinction is made between a private school or college and a public school or college. The statutes are explicit and we must now turn to the decisions of the courts of last resort in order to determine the applicability of the statutes to particular cases. The only case which directly concerns your question is that of Berea College v. Commonwealth 123 Ky. 209, 94 S.W. 664. Berea College had been operated prior to that time, and for a period of half a century, as a school wherein members of both races were admitted under equal terms. The College was indicted by the Madison County C-rand Jury and fined $1000.00 for the violation of the law. It appealed to the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, challenging the constitutionality of Chapter 85 of the Acts of 1904, above referred to. The Court of Appeals held that the statute properly came under the police powers, that it was constitutional, and that Berea College was guilty of violating the law by teaching both races. An examination of the decisions of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky reveals that this is still the law of the State and that case has not been reversed, modified or amended in any way. We do find that it has been referred to in numerous later cases with approval. In one of these cases, Axton Fisher Tobacco Company v. Evening Post Company 169 Ky. 64, 82, 183 S.W. 269, the court quoted with approval the language of Judge O'Rear, who wrote the opinion in the Berea College case, as follows: "The separation of the white and black races upon the surface of the globe is a fact equally apparent. Why this is so it is not necessary to speculate; but the fact of a distribution of men by race and color is as visible in the providential arrangement of the earth as that of heat and cold. The natural separation of the races is therefore an undeniable fact, and all social organizations which lead to their amalgamation are repugnant to the law of nature.” This case was decided on June 12, 1906, and is the law in Kentucky to this date. Berea College appealed the case directly to the SupremeCourt of the United States in the case of Berea College v.Commonwealth of Kentucky 211 U.S. 45, 53 L.Ed. 81, 29 S.C. 33. The Supreme Court in a decision of November 9, 1908, upheld the Court of Appeals of Kentucky and, in referring to the language of the Kentucky Statutes, has this to say of Berea as a teacher of both races: "Besides, appellant, as a corporation created by this State, has no natural right to teach at all. Its right to teach is such as the state sees fit to give to it. The State may withhold it altogether, or qualify it.” (Citing case). This Berea College case has never been reversed, modified, amended or in any way changed by the Supreme Court of the United States. It has, however, quoted the Berea College case as authority in many other cases. One of these is Rescue Army v.Municipal Court of Los Angeles 331 U.S. 549, 67 S.C. 1409. This case was decided June 9, 1947. Another fairly recent case, wherein the Berea College case was cited as authority, is Herb v. Pitcairn 324 U.S. 117, 65 S.C. 459, decided in 1945. Thus, we see that the statutes as they now exist are for all purposes identical to the statute upon which Berea College was convicted in 1904, and that our State and Federal courts are in unanimous agreement that the statute is constitutional and properly imposes the penalty which it sets out. It necessarily follows that Centre College, being a school organized and operating under the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and being subject to Kentucky’s laws, cannot be permitted to accept negro or colored students as long as white students attend the school. There is no difference between a privately owned school and a publicly owned school as far as the application of the law is concerned. Yours very truly, A. E. FUNK ATTORNEY GENERAL By W. Owen Keller ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL WOK:das From The name and email address of the person sending the email Keller, W. Owen To The name(s) and email address(es) of the person to whom the email was sent Davis, Earl C. Institution The institution an individual is attached to, be it a university or a business. Can refer to the institution of the sender or recipient of a letter. Centre College Commonwealth of Kentucky Attorney General's Office Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Attorney General's Office to Centre College Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Keller, W. Owen Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1948-10-06 Subject The topic of the resource College Integration Day Law Description An account of the resource A response to the inquiry of Mr. Earl C. Davis, Director of Admissions, Centre College, about admitting Nigerian students. Written by Assistant Attorney General W. Owen Keller, the letter reiterates state policy regarding integrated institutions of higher education, citing portions of the Day Law and the Supreme Court Case, Berea College v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, 1908. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alumni Correspondence with Walter A. Groves Description An account of the resource Walter Groves received letters from alumni throughout his tenure, and two are included here. They were received after the attorney general report in 1948, which publicized the requests for admission Centre had received from Nigerian students. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document LAW OFFICES CALDWELL & ROBINSON ASHLAND, KEWTUCKY SECOND NATIONAL BANK BUILDING ROBT. T. CALDWELL L. GREENE M. ROBINSON October 7, 1948 Dr. Walter A. Groves, President, Centre College, Danville, Kentucky. Dear Dr. Groves: On yesterday there came to my desk the annual letter soliciting a contribution to the Alumnii Fund for the support of certain activities of Centre, and also the issue of the Courier-Journal in which your Dean of Men, Mr. Earl C. Davis, is credited with a press release to the effect that Centre College is proposing to admit negro students unless restrained by State law as construed by the Attorney General. Probably many alumnii who have been contributing, according to their means, to the annual Fund for current operation and who are presently being solicited for substantial contributions for the construction of the much- needed Physical Education building, would be willing to continue their interest in Centre College if it is to maintain its traditions and policies under which it has been an influential and respected institution, but would not care to participate in the questionable social experiment of operating a black-and-tan college in Kentucky. The article quotes Dean Davis as follows: ”Will Centre admit these students if the Attorney General rules it can do so legally?” Dean Davis was asked. ”Why, yes, we've never had any question of that nature.” he replied. Right now we have enrolled students from Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Iran, Greece and a displaced person from the Ukraine, in Soviet Russia.' 'We feel that we are one of the more cosmopolitan schools of the country.' the dean added.” The negroes whose admission Mr. Davis was pro- posing were stated to be citizens of Nigeria but this, of course, is wholly irrelevant as we could not justify, either legally or morally, discriminating in favour of negroes who were non-residents and other equally qualified negroes who are citizens of Kentucky. In today's Courier there is re- ported, also in two-column headlines on page one of the second section, the Attorney General’s obviously correct ruling that Centre College cannot lawfully admit negroes - an opinion that the Dean’s office could have readily obtained from any of the lawyer members of the Board of Trustees without the extremely damaging publicity incident to Dean Davis’ presumably unauthorized presentation of the matter to the Attorney General. However, the question of law violation is not the real issue. What the alumnii are entitled to know is who are the "We" who, according to Mr. Davis’ press-release, were proposing to admit negro students to Centre College. Any such revolutionary change of policy by the college if released to the press or State officials at all, should have been announced only by you as President, and pursuant to authorization of the Board of Trustees. On inquiry, I am advised by a member of the Board that the matter was never presented to the Board for consideration and I am, of course, assuming that you yourself did not authorize the announcement, or the requesting of the opinion from the Attorney General made by your Dean of men. As one interested alumnus, I am communicating with the Alumnii Association, which appears to be the proper channel under the circumstances, suggesting that the officials of the Association bring the matter to the attention of the Board of Trustees to the end that, by an equally public announcement, the alumnii and the public be informed as to whether Centre’s policy with respect to the admission of negroes was correctly represented by Mr. Davis. Cordially yours, Robt. T. Caldwell RTC/mew CC to Mr. VanWinkle Mr. Rodes Mr. Baker From The name and email address of the person sending the email Caldwell, Robert T. To The name(s) and email address(es) of the person to whom the email was sent Groves, Walter A. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Robert T. Caldwell, Centre Alumni Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Caldwell, Robert T. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1948-10-07 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CC_2_3_A_Box2_016 (recto) CC_2_3_A_Box2_017 (verso) Description An account of the resource A letter from alumnus Robert T. Caldwell in the wake of newspaper articles about the admissions requests from Nigerian students. Caldwell asks Groves about the situation and impresses the importance decisions going through the Board of Trustees for approval. 1948 Centre Alumni College Integration Walter A. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alumni Correspondence with Walter A. Groves Description An account of the resource Walter Groves received letters from alumni throughout his tenure, and two are included here. They were received after the attorney general report in 1948, which publicized the requests for admission Centre had received from Nigerian students. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document October 8, 1948 Mr. Chester B. Hall 1518 Starks Building Louisville 2, Kentucky Dear Mr. Hall: I appreciate your letter of October 7 with its comments on the recent incident reported in the newspapers. The college had no intention of making this story known to the press. This uncalled for publicity was the work of the attorney general's office. The college originally wrote to these applicants citing the Day Law as the reason for our inability to accept them and also recommended them to other institutions. They nonetheless replied, asking for further consideration, therefore, before replying to them a second time, I thought it advisable in a situation of this nature, to have an official opinion, on the subject. On this particular subject in these days a private institution might very will be held up to considerable censure for attempting to interpret the law in such matters. We did not know that to seek the counsel of the attorney general’s office is to invite publicity. I am willing to admit that we would have been confronted with a difficult solution had the attorney general ruled that we might accept them. Certainly there was no sense in arguing that question until such an interpretation had been given. However, in view of the editorial in the Courier Journal of October 8, I do not believe that the publicity in this incident is altogether negative. Possibly the attorney general had his own reasons for making this question from the college a public matter. I am interested in your experience of several years ago when you were president of the Pitkin Club. At one of the Y.M.C.A. forums last year a prominent Negro educator spoke to a group of fifty or more students, and I heard no objection to the invitation to him, nor did anything arise either during the discussion itself or following which indicated the slightest question as to the propriety of such a program. Maybe we are making progress. Very sincerely yours, Walter A. Groves President Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter From The name and email address of the person sending the email Groves, Walter A. To The name(s) and email address(es) of the person to whom the email was sent Hall, Chester B. Institution The institution an individual is attached to, be it a university or a business. Can refer to the institution of the sender or recipient of a letter. Centre College Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Walter A. Groves to Chester B. Hall Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Groves, Walter A. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1948-10-08 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CC_2_3_A_Box2_018 (page 1) CC_2_3_Box2_019 (page 2) 1948 Centre Alumni College Integration Walter A. 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They were received after the attorney general report in 1948, which publicized the requests for admission Centre had received from Nigerian students. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document CHESTER B. HALL Agency Supervisor 1518 Starks Building Louisville 2, Kentucky President's Club THE MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY October 7, 1948 Dr. Walter A. Groves President of Centre College Danville, Kentucky Dear Dr. Groves: I am sorry to say that I am not in a position to comment on activities, methods, policies, etc., at Centre, I have been out of contact and could not possibly be of much help without a "refresher course". I regret the recent publicity in the press with reference to the three applicants from Africa. It appears to me the college should have known the answer before the question was put to the state authorities. Unless the college was prepared to fight the case, no purpose was served in making the story available to the press. I recall, as president of The Pitkin Club, I invited Dr. Bates (an educator of high repute - and a negro) to lunch with the Club and talk to the members on Race Relations. Because of pressure from the higher command, the invitation to lunch had to be withdrawn. Can it be possible that today. Centre would really admit a Negro? If this is so, I would say Centre is making progress. Best Wishes, Ches. Hall '33 Chester B. Hall Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter From The name and email address of the person sending the email Hall, Chester B. To The name(s) and email address(es) of the person to whom the email was sent Groves, Walter A. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Chester B. Hall, Class of 1933 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hall, Chester B. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1948-10-07 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CC_2_3_A_Box2_015 1948 Centre Alumni College Integration Walter A. 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Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1949-01-24 Subject The topic of the resource College Integration Description An account of the resource Survey responses from a January 1949 survey distributed to Centre College faculty by Walter A. Groves. The questions inquired to faculty's opinions on Jews, Mexicans, and Negros as students and as professionals. The responses presented in this collection come from both the positive and negative sides of the college integration debate. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper From The name and email address of the person sending the email Groves, Walter A. To The name(s) and email address(es) of the person to whom the email was sent Faculty Members of Centre College, 1949 Institution The institution an individual is attached to, be it a university or a business. Can refer to the institution of the sender or recipient of a letter. Centre College Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Male Married Faculty Member with Children Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CC_2_3_A_Box2_097 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1949-01-24 Description An account of the resource A male member of the Centre College faculty in support of integration. This man had taught Negro students in the past, and did not support separate but equal educational facilities for college students. 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Title A name given to the resource Faculty Surveys Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Groves, Walter A. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1949-01-24 Subject The topic of the resource College Integration Description An account of the resource Survey responses from a January 1949 survey distributed to Centre College faculty by Walter A. Groves. The questions inquired to faculty's opinions on Jews, Mexicans, and Negros as students and as professionals. The responses presented in this collection come from both the positive and negative sides of the college integration debate. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper From The name and email address of the person sending the email Groves, Walter A. To The name(s) and email address(es) of the person to whom the email was sent Faculty Members of Centre College, 1949 Institution The institution an individual is attached to, be it a university or a business. Can refer to the institution of the sender or recipient of a letter. Centre College Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Faculty Surveys Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Groves, Walter A. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1949-01-24 Subject The topic of the resource College Integration Description An account of the resource Survey responses from a January 1949 survey distributed to Centre College faculty by Walter A. Groves. The questions inquired to faculty's opinions on Jews, Mexicans, and Negros as students and as professionals. The responses presented in this collection come from both the positive and negative sides of the college integration debate. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper From The name and email address of the person sending the email Groves, Walter A. To The name(s) and email address(es) of the person to whom the email was sent Faculty Members of Centre College, 1949 Institution The institution an individual is attached to, be it a university or a business. Can refer to the institution of the sender or recipient of a letter. Centre College Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Female Unmarried Faculty Member with No Children Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CC_2_3_A_Box2_092 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1949-01-24 Description An account of the resource Unmarried female faculty member who did not favor admittance of Negros at Centre College in Kentucky at the present time. She felt favorably towards Negros as a whole but believed Centre was not ready for Negro students at that point in time. She did not support separate but equal educational facilities. 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Title A name given to the resource Faculty Surveys Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Groves, Walter A. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1949-01-24 Subject The topic of the resource College Integration Description An account of the resource Survey responses from a January 1949 survey distributed to Centre College faculty by Walter A. Groves. The questions inquired to faculty's opinions on Jews, Mexicans, and Negros as students and as professionals. The responses presented in this collection come from both the positive and negative sides of the college integration debate. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper From The name and email address of the person sending the email Groves, Walter A. To The name(s) and email address(es) of the person to whom the email was sent Faculty Members of Centre College, 1949 Institution The institution an individual is attached to, be it a university or a business. Can refer to the institution of the sender or recipient of a letter. Centre College Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Female Formerly Married Faculty Member with No Children Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CC_2_3_A_Box2_093 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1949-01-24 Subject The topic of the resource College Integration: in support of, generally Description An account of the resource A formerly married female faculty member in support of college integration in general, but uncertain about integrating Centre specifically. Despite her hesitancy, she did not favor separate but equal educational facilities. 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Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1949-01-24 Subject The topic of the resource College Integration Description An account of the resource Survey responses from a January 1949 survey distributed to Centre College faculty by Walter A. Groves. The questions inquired to faculty's opinions on Jews, Mexicans, and Negros as students and as professionals. The responses presented in this collection come from both the positive and negative sides of the college integration debate. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper From The name and email address of the person sending the email Groves, Walter A. To The name(s) and email address(es) of the person to whom the email was sent Faculty Members of Centre College, 1949 Institution The institution an individual is attached to, be it a university or a business. Can refer to the institution of the sender or recipient of a letter. Centre College Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Female Married Faculty Member with No Children Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CC_2_3_A_Box2_091 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1949-01-24 Subject The topic of the resource College Integration: in support of Description An account of the resource Female married faculty member with no children. Supported the desegregation of Centre College. 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