The Colonists

Historical marker location:

1180 E 7th St, Wilmington, Delaware

( Marker is on East 7th Street, 0.2 miles Wilmington Industrial Park, on the right when traveling east. Reported damaged.)

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.