Richard Allen School

SC-249: In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, Delaware did not have a comprehensive state-wide education system. By 1915, Delaware schools were ranked among the poorest in the country. Worse yet, African American students often attended dilapidated schools under deplorable conditions. Seeing an opportunity to help all students in Delaware, Pierre S. du Pont […]

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Prospect AME Church

SC-107: Originally installed in 1996. The roots of African-American Methodism in this community can be traced to the organization of an African-American “class” within the local Methodist society in the 1790s. By the 1830s a group of residents had affiliated themselves with Bishop Richard Allen’s African Methodist Episcopal Church. On November 13, 1839, trustees Moses […]

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