Despite a vehement protest speech against allowing slavery in Kentucky by white Presbyterian minister David Rice, the 1792 Constitution continues the legalization of slavery in Kentucky formerly allowed under Virginia colonial and later state law. 1799 Revisions to the KY Constitution in Art. II , Sec. Kentucky legislature passes a statute racially segregating Kentucky schools, universities, and educational institutions. Schools can run separate institutions but had to be more than 25 miles apart.
Statute goes into effect.
For the 1904-5 session Berea paid for the transport of about 100 black students to Fiske College and Hampton Institute because could not admit them to Berea College under the new law. This decision also found that the races were naturally antogonistic and thus separation kept the peace. The Appeals Court, however, did hold that the 25 mile exclusion zone was unreasonable and struck it down. The US Supreme Court upholds the Kentucky Appeals Court's decision. The US Supreme Court ruled that a prosecutor could use challenges to strike all 6 blacks in jury pool unless a pattern of racial discrimination was shown on the part of the prosecutor.