 The ruling also is a minor landmark on the nature of corporate personhood.Berea College was a coeducational and desegregated school founded in 1855, admitting both blacks and whites students and treating them without discrimination.In 1904, the "Day Law" (named for Carl Day, a Democrat from Breathitt County, Kentucky who had introduced the bill in the Kentucky House of Representatives) was passed by the Kentucky legislature, prohibiting any person, group of people, or corporation from the teaching of black and white students in the same school, or from running separate branches of a school for the teaching of black and white students within twenty-five miles of each other.