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Bradley Skelcher
Author Bradley Skelcher is a professor of history at Delaware State University, and his research into Delaware’s African-American heritage has helped to establish the state’s plans for preserving this valuable public treasure. Skelcher’s passion for his subject shines brightly in this pictorial retrospective, illustrating both the challenges and accomplishments of Delaware State University with vintage archival photographs. Present-day students, alumni, and faculty are all sure to enjoy this historical tribute.
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INTRODUCTION
Students from Delaware State like Solomon Gibbs (see page 2) of Star Hill achieved the high standards of excellence set by the school and demanded by the faculty and administrators. Following graduation, alumni maintain these high standards, challenging new students to attain the same goals as they had.
From its beginning as a fledgling college, Delaware State, born in the age of segregation, has taken a leading role in the establishment of equal higher education for African Americans. Following desegregation in the 1950s, Delaware State has taken the lead in educating all students coming from disadvantaged backgrounds. Students from Delaware State, like Homer Minus, challenged segregation in higher education leading to the desegregation of the first Southern institution of higher learning, the University of Delaware. Ethel Belton, one of the litigants in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case, attended Delaware State in the 1950s. Many Delaware State athletes have gone on to achieve great success, such as San Francisco 49ers football standout John Taylor who caught the winning touchdown pass in Super Bowl XXII. In 1970, President Richard M. Nixon appointed former president of Delaware State Jerome Holland to serve as ambassador to Sweden.
African Americans struggled in the years following the Civil War to build free and independent communities. This included the establishment of institutions that would help them build strong and enduring citizens. The centerpieces of African-American communities in Delaware, and throughout the nation, were churches. Flowing from them were other community institutions such as civic and fraternal organizations, businesses, and labor groups. Above all else, African Americans understood the key to empowering themselves was in pursuing an education.
Following the Civil War, religious groups like the Society of Friends and the Methodist Episcopal Church championed educational opportunities for African Americans in Delaware. Members of these groups came together in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1867 to establish the Delaware Association for the Moral Improvement and Education of the Colored People in Delaware. From this point, the Delaware Association worked with the Freedmen’s Bureau and local African-American communities to build an educational system for blacks in Delaware. Many members of the Delaware Association also participated in the founding of Delaware State College for Colored Students in 1891.
In 1890, the U.S. Congress passed the Second Merrill Land Grant College Act in response to a financial crisis among colleges supported by the original act passed in 1862. The act required that states must allow African-American students to attend colleges receiving funds. If not, then states had to establish separate colleges for African-American students. Throughout the segregated South,
states established separate institutions of higher learning for African Americans during the 1890s including the state of Delaware.
Members of the General Assembly in Delaware responded to the provisions of the Second Merrill Land Grant College Act by establishing the State College for Colored Students on May 15, 1891. The state purchased the Loockerman estate near Dover, the state capital, and began holding classes in the former manor house the following year. Ironically, slaves once worked the land on the Loockerman estate in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The first president of Delaware State was a white man, Wesley Webb, who served until 1895.
The first African-American president was William C. Jason, who served the longest term of a Delaware State president, from 1895 to 1923. It was Jason who placed the new college on a solid foundation. This remarkable achievement came at the height of Jim Crow
segregation in the state and the nation. During his administration, Delaware State saw the expansion of the physical plant and academic and athletic programs, as well as a growing number of students, faculty, and