We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.  One hundred and seventy-five years after one of the greatest documents ever written laid the foundation for a new country called the United States of America, little equality existed between descendants of former slaves, and descendants of former slave owners.  The laws of the land suggested that all men were NOT created equal.  The school system in much of America reinforced this belief.

This is the story of two great men, one black, one white, one lawyer, one judge, both born into circumstances that should have kept them from achieving hero status, who laid the foundation to change the nation’s most fundamental sign and cause of racism:  an unequal school system separated by race.  Louis Redding, Delaware’s first black attorney, was the nation’s first attorney to win a public school desegregation case and Collins Seitz, an Irish American, became the nation’s first judge to suggest that segregation was unconstitutional.  In doing so, they helped America to come closer to the ideals laid out in the Declaration of Independence and the democracy laid out in the Constitution.

Kathleen Marie Doyle has been teaching teachers and teenagers in Delaware since 1985.  This book was written especially for young people, but the goal is to help all people appreciate these two great heroes and the role that Delaware played in the Civil Rights Movement.

All royalties from the sale of this book are donated to the Community Legal Aid Society, Inc.

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