10 Cunningham: What is the Day Law? - Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame Oral History Project

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Cunningham talks of how the Day Law came about because of Berea College. A state legislator visiting Berea in the early 1900s and was appalled that black and white were studying together.

Raoul Cunningham was born in 1943 and began working for civil rights at age 14. Cunningham recruited other young people to the cause and, after careful planning, they began picketing numerous downtown Louisville lunch counters and restaurants that refused to serve African-Americans. He attended Howard University. Back in Louisville he worked on the campaign to elect Kentucky Senator Georgia Davis Powers. He worked in the Washington DC office of U.S. Senator Dee Huddleston for many years. He is the President of the Louisville Branch of the NAACP.

This interview took place on June 3th, 2013 as part of the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History and University of Kentucky Libraries.

To view the entire interview visit:

https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt76hd7nrt78

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