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 enacted by the Kentucky legislature, prohibiting any individual, group, or corporation from teaching black and white students together in the same school, or from operating separate branches of a school for black and white students within twenty-five miles of each other. Given that Berea was the sole integrated school in Kentucky (and the only such college in the South) at the time, it was obviously the intended target of this law.