In 1948, the NAACP began organizing parents in Dover and Bridgeville to push back against segregation and unequal treatment. NAACP lawyers had already been working to desegregate Delaware’s colleges and universities, and they wanted to impact K-12 public education, too. In both Dover and Bridgeville, Black high school students had to travel long distances each day to attend segregated schools. Students in Dover commuted 50 miles to Wilmington. This was a hardship for their families. NAACP attorneys Louis Redding and Jack Greenburg helped the students’ parents sue. They argued Black families were spending more time and money on daily travel than white families had to spend, and this was unfair. Further, they claimed the schools for Black students were inferior to the schools for white students. They wanted Black students to be admitted to nearby all-white schools. The state, however, made the case that if the schools were found to be unequal, separate equivalent schools for Black students should be built. Unfortunately, the court rejected the Black families' charge of unequal education and they lost the case. Still, Redding and Greenburg did not give up. They followed up with another lawsuit, Belton v. Gebhart in 1952, which became one of the cases incorporated into Brown v. Board in 1954. This shows how the NAACP achieved success through years of ongoing organizing and community activism. There were many setbacks along the way, but their persistence paid off.