A new monument in Dover marks Delaware’s role in the desegregation of American schools the day before the country celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case. Community members, authors, historians and legislators joined Thursday morning to unveil the memorial on the grounds of Legislative Hall. “Whenever people put stumbling blocks in your way, …
Hockessin Colored School No. 107 opens as historic site
A school building in Hockessin instrumental to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling that desegregated public schools will enter a new chapter driven by diversity, inclusion and equity. Hockessin Colored School No. 107, which operated from 1920 to 1959, was a one-room schoolhouse built to serve Black children who were not allowed to attend school with …