by Colonial School District | Feb 13, 2021 | Black History Month
Valentine’s Day is all about love but did you know interracial marriages were once illegal and the 2016 movie “Loving” was based on a true story? During the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, the growing number of interracial marriages (also known as...
by Colonial School District | Feb 12, 2021 | Black History Month
In 1929, Louis L. Redding became the first Black lawyer in Delaware. He was a respected civil rights pioneer for Delaware and America. In 1950, Redding compiled a case against the University of Delaware, which barred Black students. But the university’s...
by Colonial School District | Feb 12, 2021 | Black History Month
(1782–1843) Spencer was an American freedman who in 1813 founded the Union Church of Africans in Wilmington, Delaware. The denomination is now known as the African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church and Connection, or A.U.M.P. Church for short. Born into...
by Colonial School District | Feb 12, 2021 | Black History Month
J.J Johnson has lived in the Colonial School district for more than 40 years and spent 14 of those years as a State Representative in the Delaware General Assembly. Johnson took a keen interest in the education of Colonial school children, in part because of his own...
by Colonial School District | Feb 11, 2021 | Black History Month
David LaFrance May Sr. was born in New Castle, Delaware on December 23, 1943, and was raised in Old New Castle. May excelled in sports at an early age and became a standout athlete while a student at William Penn High School (WPHS). May played baseball, football, and...
by Colonial School District | Feb 10, 2021 | Black History Month
Jane Mitchell, a resident of Delaware City, was the first African-American to work as a registered nurse in a Delaware hospital. After breaking that color line in 1948 at the Gov. Bacon Health Clinic in Delaware City, Mitchell worked at the Delaware Psychiatric...
