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Trail to Desegregation Tours Poised to Continue
Designed to ground legal history in place, the tours grew out of a University of Delaware master of arts in liberal studies capstone by DHS board member Karen Ingram (MALS, 2024). Ingram—who once worked for civil rights attorney Louis L. Redding—framed the route to place Redding’s cases in context through on-site conversation. Tour stops included Howard High School, the Claymont Community Center and Hockessin Colored School #107C, where attendees heard first-person accounts from guides Syl Woolford and James “Sonny” Knotts about life in segregated and newly integrated classrooms.
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Student Project Highlights Delaware Connections to Brown v. Board of Education Decision
Karen Ingram, a graduating student in UD’s Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program, stands before the Louis L. Redding House and Museum in Wilmington. Ingram created a bus tour that traces Delaware’s crucial role in the Brown v. Board of Education decision, which was handed down 70 years ago. Redding, the state’s first Black attorney, was part of the legal team that argued the case.
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PRESERVING FILM, PRESERVING HISTORY
Kevin Martin (left), curator of audiovisual collections and digital initiatives at the Hagley Museum and Library, and Jim Culley, alumnus of UD’s MALS program, examine a portion of the thousands of sponsored films from Culley’s family film studio waiting to be preserved and digitized at Hagley.
