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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM70X_knotty-pine-restaurant_Wilmington-DE.html
In 1875 the Delaware General Assembly enacted legislation requiring the racial segregation of public places such as train stations, hotels, and restaurants. For most of the next century this practice was strictly enforced. Established at this loca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM70W_saint-joseph-church_Wilmington-DE.html
The cradle of African-American Catholicism in Delaware, St. Joseph Church was organized in 1889 by Father John A. DeRuyter of the Josephites. Services were first held in the basement of St. Mary's Church on 6th and Pine Streets. Incorporated as St…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM70T_site-of-old-cathedral-cemetery_Wilmington-DE.html
In May 1852, this parcel of land was purchased by Bishop (now Saint) John N. Neumann of Philadelphia. From the early 1850s through the late 1870s, this was the primary cemetery for Wilmington's Catholics. Those buried here represented all walks of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM70R_howard-high-school_Wilmington-DE.html
Founded in 1867 by the Association for the Moral Improvement and Education of Colored People and named for Civil War General Oliver Otis Howard, the original school was located at 12th and Orange Streets.
Pierre S. DuPont was the major benefact…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM35Q_louis-l-redding-city-county-building_Wilmington-DE.html
Named in honor of Delaware's first Afro-American attorney, graduate of Howard High School, Brown University, and Harvard Law School, admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1929, pioneer in the struggle for equality and tireless advocate in civil rights c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GM_brown-v-board-of-education_Wilmington-DE.html
Delaware remained a racially segregated society until the mid-twentieth century. Though the segregation of public schools was supported by the "separate but equal" doctrine that had been upheld by the nation's highest court, the facilities and ser…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12L_gravesite-of-bishop-peter-spencer-1779-1843_Wilmington-DE.html
Born a slave, Bishop Spencer was the father of Delaware's independent Black church movement. In 1813, he founded the Union Church of Africans, presently known as the African Union Methodist Protestant Church. The mother AUMP church stood on this s…