Berea College v. Kentucky

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Berea College v. Kentucky
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 10, 13, 1908 Decided November 9, 1908
Full case name	Berea College, Plaintiff in Error, v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
Citations	211 U.S. 45 (more) 29 S. Ct. 33; 53 L. Ed. 81
Case history
Prior	Affirmed, 123 Ky. 209, 94 S.W. 623. Reviewed by the Supreme Court on writ of error.
Holding
States can legally prohibit private educational institutions chartered as corporations from admitting both black and white students.
Court membership
Chief Justice Melville Fuller Associate Justices John M. Harlan · David J. Brewer Edward D. White · Rufus W. Peckham Joseph McKenna · Oliver W. Holmes Jr. William R. Day · William H. Moody
Case opinions
Majority	Brewer, joined by Fuller, White, Peckham, McKenna
Concurrence	Holmes (in the judgment of the court only)
Concurrence	Moody (in the judgment of the court only)
Dissent	Harlan
Dissent	Day
Overruled by
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Berea College v. Kentucky, 211 U.S. 45 (1908), was a significant case argued before the United States Supreme Court that upheld the rights of states to prohibit private educational institutions chartered as corporations from admitting both black and white students.^[1] Like the related Plessy v. Ferguson case,^[2] it was also marked by a strongly worded dissent by John Marshall Harlan. The ruling also is a minor landmark on the nature of corporate personhood.