Littleton Mitchell of Delaware City was a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. He was best known as the 30-year outspoken president of the state NAACP (1961-1991) and he established a reputation as a ferocious fighter for civil rights in Delaware, which included the areas of housing, public accommodations, education, and voting rights. Mitchell died tragically in a car accident near the then Valero Refinery in 2009. Then-Vice President Joe Biden said of his passing, “Lit Mitchell was a man of incredible strength and courage; he was a hero to many, including me. A man who overcame so much to fight for his country in countless ways – serving as a Tuskegee Airman in World War II, leading the civil rights movement in Delaware, and helping integrate schools nationwide – Lit was a remarkable force.”
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Interracial Marriage in the United states
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...
WE Celebrate: Delaware’s First Black Attorney
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 chancellor,...
We Celebrate: Peter Spencer
(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...