A Utopian Experiment in Kentucky: Integration and Social Equality at Berea, 1866-1904

by Richard Sears

A major social and educational experiment in race relations was conducted in Berea, Kentucky, from 1866 to 1904. During those years Berea contained a community, school, and church which were all fully integrated: white people, mostly from the Kentucky Appalachian region, and black people, former slaves and their children, from the Blue Grass country, lived, worked, and studied together in an atmosphere designed to foster social equality. Sears demonstrates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313300402
• ISBN13: 9780313300400
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"