Transforming the historic Hockessin school that ended segregation into aCenter for Diversity, Inclusion & Social Equity
“Until we are all free, we are none of us free.”
- Emma Lazarus
- Emma Lazarus
Transforming the historic Hockessin school that ended segregation into aCenter for Diversity, Inclusion & Social Equity
“Until we are all free, we are none of us free.”
- Emma Lazarus
- Emma Lazarus
Transforming the historic Hockessin school that ended segregation into aCenter for Diversity, Inclusion & Social Equity
“Until we are all free, we are none of us free.”
- Emma Lazarus
- Emma Lazarus
There are so many ways you can participate.
Our 100 Year of History
The Hockessin Colored School #107 was built in 1920 and played a monumental role in the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, which desegregated schools nationwide.
1950
Shirley Bulah walks the 2 miles to and from HCS #107. A school bus transporting white children passes her every day.
Parents Fred and Sarah Bulah write Delaware Governor Carvel asking the state to provide their daughter, Shirley, with transportation to school.
They are rejected.
1952
Attorney Louis L. Redding files Bulah vs. Gebhart in the Delaware Court.
Chancellor Collins J. Seitz declared that separate African American schools offered inferior educational opportunities when compared to white schools and ordered the immediate admission of African American students to the white schools.
The Hockessin Schoools are desegregated.
1954
Bulah v. Gebhart is combined with 4 other cases to become the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case.
US Supreme Court overturns Plessy v. Ferguson by stating, 'separate but equal, is in fact, not equal at all.
School segregation is declared unconstitutional.
Help us to preserve HCS #107 for current and future generations.
“We could no more let HCS #107 be torn down or lost to commercial development, than we could allow another promising student of color to drop out of high school based on some artificial barrier of geography, income or perceived cultural deficiency.”
Judge Leonard Williams – Founding Chairman of The FOHCS
Today
An important historical landmark
becomes an impactful center for DEI
Our DEI programming plan includes:
Upcoming Events
Community Conversation: Social Justice and Public Safety
Community Conversation Series
Thu Jun 17 2021
Brown v. Board of Education Day - Honoring Shirley Bulah, Collins J. Seitz, & Louis Redding
Gov. John Carney, Chief Justice C.J. Seitz, U.S. Senators Chris Coons & Tom Carper, U.S. Representative Lisa Blunt-Rochester, NCC Executive Matt Meyer, Red Clay School District students, Former HCS #107 students
Mon May 17 2021
Biden Presidential Inauguration Committee - MLK Holiday - Day of Giving at Hockessin Colored School #107
Community service event at HCS #107 from 11-4 for Ministry of Caring - 200+ visitors
Mon Jan 18 2021
Articles & Media About Our Mission
Featured by NPR via Delmarva Public Media
Hear from former HCS #107 students
Featured by NPR via Delmarva Public Media
When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down school segegration in 1954, many black students found a hostile backlash at the previously all white schools they attended.
In part 2 Delmarva Public Radio's Don Rush takes a look at what happened to those students and the efforts to renovate the old African American school in Hockessin that was part of the historic decision.
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