Welsh Tract

Historical marker location:

Middletown, Delaware

( Marker is on DE 896, DE 71 (Summit Bridge Road), 0.1 miles south of Victoria Drive, on the right when traveling south.)

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.