The Bulah Family & Brown v. Board of Education

After several failed attempts to convince Delaware’s Department of Public Instruction to provide transportation of Black children at Hockessin Colored School #107C to local white schools, Fred and Sarah Bulah, who lived near this site with their daughter Shirley, enlisted the help of Louis Redding and Jack Greenberg. The cases Belton v. Gebhart (1952) and Bulah v. Gebhart (1952) were filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Chancellor Collins J. Seitz ruled the plaintiffs were being denied equal protection of the law and ordered that the eleven children involved be admitted to the white Claymont and Hockessin schools. The case became part of Brown v. Board of Education.