Gebhart and Bulah v. Gebhart (Delaware) were two separate cases with similar issues. In the case Belton v. Gebhart, Ethel Belton and six other African American parents in the community filed a lawsuit because their children had to be transported nine miles to attend Howard High School located in Wilmington. The problem was that they were denied admission to Clayton High School, which was closer to their residence because the school was a whites-only public school. In the case of Bulah v. Gebhart, Sarah Bulah filed a lawsuit after repeatedly trying to convince the Delaware Department of Public Instruction to provide bus transportation to black children in the community, but was denied. . The bus for white children passed her house every day and would not pick up her daughter because she was African American. A special aspect of this case was that it was represented by Louis Redding, who was the first black in the state.