Historical Marker
Washington's Reconnaissance
Historical marker location:
1223 Old Baltimore Pike, Newark, Delaware
( Marker is on Old Baltimore Pike, on the right when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 1932
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.