Louis L. Redding

Louis L. Redding
Born(1901-10-25)October 25, 1901
Alexandria, Virginia, US
DiedSeptember 28, 1998(1998-09-28) (aged 96)
Lima, Pennsylvania, US
EducationBrown University
Harvard Law School
OccupationLawyer
Known forCivil rights activism
RelativesJ. Saunders Redding (brother)

Louis Lorenzo Redding (October 25, 1901 – September 28, 1998) was an American lawyer and civil rights advocate from Wilmington, Delaware. The first African American to be admitted to the Delaware bar, Redding was part of the NAACP legal team that challenged school segregation in the Brown v. Board of Education case before the U.S. Supreme Court. He was 96 when he died at a hospital in Lima, Pennsylvania.

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