What was once Hockessin Colored School No. 107, a school building symbolic of America’s racial divide, is now the Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Social Equity.

Hockessin Colored School No. 107 opens as historic site

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

A school building in Hockessin instrumental to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling that desegregated public schools will enter a new chapter driven by diversity, inclusion and equity. Hockessin Colored School No. 107, which operated from 1920 to 1959, was a one-room schoolhouse built to serve Black children who were not allowed to attend school with …