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FEATURE
Dr. David Wilk
‘Walking ThroughtheDoorAgain’
The Story of Hockessin Colored School #107c
It all began with a serendipitous phone call in early January 2012 from The Hon. Joshua W. Martin III (who also happens to be one of my favorite people in life!). He was calling to see if I might be willing to provide some real estate insights to a group of community volunteers who were trying to save the Hockessin Colored School #107c from sheriff’s sale. Time was of the essence as a sheriff’s sale had already been scheduled for January 10.
107c’s Monumental History
107c was at the center of the 1952 Delaware court case known as Bulah v. Gebhart. At that time, segregation pre- vented Black and white students from riding the same bus or attending the same
schools. In 1950, Sarah and Fred Bu- lah became frustrated that a school bus, which passed their house every day on the way to the all-white school Hockes- sin #29, would not pick up their daughter Shirley and drop her off at 107c.
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