Burrowing Owl

Historical marker location:

900 N Park Dr, Wilmington, Delaware

( Marker can be reached from North Park Drive, 0.2 miles east of North Van Buren Street, on the left.)

<i>Athene cunicalaria</i>.

In 1954, the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education was filed in the District of Delaware. The case, which challenged the constitutionality of racial segregation in public schools, was one of the most important civil rights cases in American history.