As we commemorate 70 years since Brown v. Board of Education changed our Nation, we also commemorate the important foundation that was laid in Delaware. A mother in Hockessin, joined by the parents of eight other students in Claymont, simply wanted their children to attend school and be treated with dignity and respect. Through Bulah v. Gebhart and Belton v. Gebhart, courageous lawyers and judges in Delaware — like Louis Redding and Chancellor Collins Seitz — helped lay the legal groundwork for the Brown v. Board of Education decision to strike down the insidious doctrine of separate but equal.
