Born in 1954 in Detroit, MI., during the year of Brown v Board of Education, when it was still legal to segregate, Delbert moved to Seattle in 1962. He attended Colman Elementary (now Seattle’s African American Museum), Washington Junior High, and Franklin High School.  He was one of the few black athletes who qualified for an academic scholarship to the University of Chicago. Eventually he attended the University of Washington, where he started, with other incoming freshman students, to use the term “Black” with one another. While attending an African American studies class, he learned about the positive aspects of African culture, including concepts that were new to him. Previously he viewed the continent of Africa as a place a Black person would disassociate from.

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