Between North and South

In this skillfully written, exhaustively researched examination of school desegregation in Delaware, the historian Brett Gadsden chronicles the role that America's first state played in the struggle for educational equality. Beginning in 1939 with the story of Ira Edwards, a black Wilmington resident who sought admission to the all-white University of Delaware, Gadsden shows how grassroots activists worked in concert with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (naacp) to challenge racial segregation in schools. In the local battle against Jim Crow, two individuals emerged as essential figures: Louis Redding, Delaware's earliest and most celebrated black attorney; and Judge Collins J. Seitz, who ordered the desegregation of the University of Delaware in 1950 before issuing a similar order for primary and secondary schools two years later. The state of Delaware appealed Seitz's second ruling, and it became part of the historic U.S. Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education, which outlawed public school segregation in 1954

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