The Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice recently honored Rehoboth Elementary students A’hmaj Thompson and Allen Brown for their demonstration of leadership, improvement, effort and excellence.
Rehoboth Elementary fifth-grader A’hmaj Thompson recently received an award from Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice. Gathered at the recognition ceremony are (l-r) Assistant Principal Kevin Monaghan, grandfather Wendell Watts, teacher Tina Windsor, A’hmaj Thompson, teacher Allie Mueller, grandmother Denise Watts, Principal Doris Person and mother Sophia Garris. SUBMITTED PHOTOSRehoboth Elementary fourth-grader Allen Brown recently received an award from Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice. Gathered at the recognition ceremony are (l-r) SDARJ representative Alicia Jones, Principal Doris Person, Assistant Principal Kevin Monaghan, teacher Kim Cross, teacher Courtney Davis, teacher Charlene Jones, Allen Brown and teacher Amanda Stallings.
Each student received a $20 gift card to Browseabout Books in Rehoboth and a book about Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black person to serve in that capacity.
Samuel Eli Cornish was born in 1795 to free parents of mixed race and lived in the vicinity of Georgetown in Sussex County. A journalist, he was also an ordained Presbyterian minister, abolitionist, and publisher.
Long before West Fourth Street was renamed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way, the corner of Fourth and DuPont Avenue in Lewes, Delaware held one of the most vital institutions in the region’s Black community: the Happy Day Club.
Many times, formerly incarcerated men and women who are leaving prison, do not have items they need to begin their new life. Thanks to your support, we have been able to purchase materials for and assemble 200 backpacks.
