Louis L. Redding Comprehensive High School - Middletown DE
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N 39° 27.204 W 075° 42.606
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Louis L. Redding Comprehensive High School is named after Louis Lorenzo Redding was a prominent lawyer and civil rights advocate from Wilmington, Delaware. Redding, the first African American to be admitted to the Delaware bar.
Waymark Code: WM172WV
Location: Delaware, United States
Date Posted: 11/28/2022
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THE PLACE:
Text from the historical marker: The Louis L. Redding Comprehensive High School opened in 1953 and served African American students in grades 1-12 in the Middletown area. It replaced the smaller Middletown School 120-C, a three-room wood structure on East Lake Street. The school was named in honor of Louis L. Redding, who was known for his work challenging segregation laws in the state. In 1969, after the Middletown, Odessa, and Townsend School Districts merged to created the new and desegregated Appoquinimink School District, the school became the Louis L. Redding Intermediate School and later, the Louis L. Redding Middle School.
Erected 2018 by Delaware Public Archives. (Marker Number NCC-240.)
THE PERSON:
From Wikipedia
"Louis Lorenzo Redding (October 25, 1901 – September 28, 1998) was a prominent lawyer and civil rights advocate from Wilmington, Delaware. Redding, the first African American to be admitted to the Delaware bar, was part of the NAACP legal team that challenged school segregation in the Brown v. Board of Education case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was 96 when he died at a hospital in Lima, Pa."
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