; Whereas, in 1929, Louis L. Redding became the first African American to pass the Delaware bar; Whereas Louis L. Redding remained the only African-American lawyer in Delaware for 26 years; Whereas, in 1949, Louis L. Redding was admitted to the Delaware Bar Association, an organization from which Louis L. Redding had been excluded for 20 years after having passed the Delaware bar; Whereas, in 1950, Louis L. Redding and Jack Greenberg, a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, filed the case of Parker v. University of Delaware to protest the segregated college system in Delaware; Whereas, in August 1950, Chancellor Collins Seitz ruled in Parker v. University of Delaware, 75 A.2d 225 (Del. Ch. 1950), that, under Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), the State of Delaware violated the Constitution of the United States by offering a separate but not equal education in the State college and university system; Whereas, in 1951, Louis L. Redding and Jack Greenberg filed— (1) Belton v. Gebhart, a case that concerned the desegregation of high schools; and (2) Bulah v. Gebhart, a case that concerned the desegregation of elementary schools; Whereas, in 1952, the Belton and Bulah cases were consolidated in the Delaware Court of Chancery, where, in Belton v. Gebhart, 87 A.2d 862 (Del. Ch. 1952), Chancellor Collins Seitz ordered the Delaware State Board of Education to open all schools in Delaware to African Americans; Whereas the Delaware State Board of Education appealed the decision of Chancellor Collins Seitz to the Supreme Court of Delaware, which upheld the decision of the Chancellor in Gebhart v. Belton, 91 A.2d 137 (Del. 1952); Whereas the case then came before the Supreme Court of the United States on a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Delaware