Berea College

Berea College is a small liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky, south of Lexington, Kentucky with a full-time enrollment of about 1500 students. Founded on the abolitionist principles of John Gregg Fee (1816-1901), Berea College admitted, from its beginning in 1855, both black and white students in a fully-integrated curriculum, making it the first non-segregated college in the South. The College was also co-educational from its inception, one of a small handful of institutions of higher leaning to admit both male and female students in the mid-1800s.

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Liberal arts - Work college - Berea, Kentucky - Lexington, Kentucky - Abolition - John Gregg Fee - 1816 - 1901 - 1855

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