by Colonial School District | Feb 27, 2021 | Black History Month
Stephanie Ingram, a 1990 graduate of William Penn High School, is the first African American woman to serve as President of the Delaware State Education Association (DSEA). The DSEA represents more than 13,000 teachers, paraprofessionals, specialists, nurses,...
by Colonial School District | Feb 27, 2021 | Black History Month
Abolitionist Mary Ann Shadd Cary became the first female African American newspaper editor in North America when she started the Black newspaper The Provincial Freemen. Later in life, she became the second African American woman in the United States to earn a law...
by Colonial School District | Feb 26, 2021 | Black History Month, News
Ya Man! Reggae Singer Bob Marley once lived in Wilmington with his mother on Tatnall Street who ran the “Roots” Jamaican music shop on Market Street. Today, a park at 24th and Tatnall is called “One Love Park” in his honor. Outside of Jamaica, Wilmington is said to...
by Colonial School District | Feb 24, 2021 | Black History Month
Jim Sills became the first African American to serve as Mayor for the city of Wilmington in 1992. Prior to that, Sills taught at the University of Delaware from 1972 to 1977. He was founding director of the Urban Agent Program and in 1987 he founded the Delaware...
by Colonial School District | Feb 18, 2021 | Black History Month
Charles “Chuck” Griffin was Delaware’s first Black police Chief. In 1971 he was hired to lead the police force in Delaware City. At the time, the position was part-time, 8 p.m.-4 a.m. weekdays and 4 p.m. to midnight on weekends. News accounts show he put in 40-50...
by Colonial School District | Feb 16, 2021 | Black History Month
In 2016 Lisa Blunt Rochester made history when she became the first person of color to represent Delaware in Congress. She began her professional career as a problem-solver and an advocate. A caseworker for then-Congressman Tom Carper, Lisa helped people during...
