In 1904, the "Day Law" (named for Carl Day, a Democrat from Breathitt County, Kentucky who had introduced the bill in the Kentucky House of Representatives) was passed by the Kentucky legislature, prohibiting any person, group of people, or corporation from the teaching of black and white students in the same school, or from running separate branches of a school for the teaching of black and white students within twenty-five miles of each other. Since at the time Berea was the only such integrated school in Kentucky (and the only such college in the South), it was clearly the target of this law.
In 1904, the "Day Law" (named after Carl Day, a Democrat from Breathitt County, Kentucky who had introduced the bill in the Kentucky House of Representatives) was passed by the state legislature, prohibiting any organization or individual from educating students of different racial backgrounds together in the same educational institution, or from establishing separate schools for students of different racial backgrounds within twenty-five miles of each other. As Berea was the only integrated school in Kentucky (and the only such college in the South) at that time, it was clearly the intended target of this law.