Also known as the Hockessin Colored School, Hockessin School #107C was constructed in 1920 to serve the community’s African-American students, with funding from the Delaware School Auxiliary Association and its primary supporter, P.S. duPont. Unlike white students, African-American students in the community were not provided transportation to school. After unsuccessful efforts to persuade officials to provide that service, Mrs. Sarah Bulah sought help from attorney Louis L. Redding, who in 1951 filed suit against the State Board of Education on behalf of her daughter Shirley in the case formally known as Bulah v. Gebhart. That case was later combined with a similar suit filed for students in Claymont. On April 1, 1952, Delaware Chancellor Collins J. Seitz ruled that the disparity between the white and African-American schools violated the United States Constitution. The ruling was later appealed to the United States Supreme Court, where it was joined with other cases to become Brown v. Board of Education. On May 17, 1954, the court issued its historic decision declaring school segregation unlawful. The school closed in 1959 and was later converted into the Hockessin Community Center.