“When she was in high school, she had to walk more than a mile from her house to the public school bus, that would take her to the city of Wilmington,” she said. “From there, she’d walk another five miles.”Breaux said there was only one high school for minorities in the northern part of the state — Howard High School. Belton had asked her daughter to attend a nearby all white school, but after that request was denied, they joined a state lawsuit, Belton v. Gebhart. Breaux said her mother continued at Howard High School and graduated. She attended Delaware State for a short while until she got too sick.