Draft:Shirley Bulah Stamps

Shirley Barbara Buluh Stamps (Janiary 30, 1944-June 2003) was a nurse in the army and reverend whose family won a desegregation case in Wilmington, Delaware over school segregation. She was denied busing as a child and prohibited from attending the segregated school for white students in her area.

She was adopted when 10 months old by Sarah Bulah. Buluh's husband had to drive her two miles to a school for blacks in a Wilmington, Delaware suburb while the school bus passed by her house each day on its way to the segregated school for white students. Her mom contacted attorney Louis L. Redding for help when her appeals to the state school officials were rejected due to segregation. They won their 1951 case and it was upheld by the Delaware Supreme Court.

She married Phillip E. Stamps and they had a son Phillip Jr. as well as three grandchildren.

The National Park Service published an August 16, 2001 video interview of her discussing her desegregation experiences.