Louis L. Redding Comprehensive High School

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Louis L. Redding Comprehensive High School was a public school for African-American students in Middletown, Delaware. Middletown School District 120 operated the school. [1] It was one of several high schools that opened in Delaware in the mid-20th century during de jure educational segregation in the United States. [2] Its namesake was Louis L. Redding. [3]

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It opened, along with William W.M. Henry Comprehensive High School in Dover in Kent County and William C. Jason Comprehensive High School in Georgetown in Sussex County, as a part of a system of high schools for African-Americans in Delaware. [2]

History

It opened in 1953 as a replacement for Middletown School 120-C. [3] It was constructed next to School 120-C. [4]

Redding had grades 1-12. [3] It generally took students from Middletown, Odessa, and Townsend. [5] It also covered other parts of the south of New Castle County. The enrollment was 650 in 1961. [4]

Alfred Graham Waters was the principal. [6] He chose to have a variety of course offerings at Redding. [4]

The school closed in 1966, and the building was given to Middletown School District 60. [1] It, in 1969, was repurposed as Louis L. Redding Middle School (originally Louis L. Redding Intermediate School), now operated by the Appoquinimink School District. [3]

In 2019 the State of Delaware installed a historical marker on the former school site. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 Mowery, Roger (1974). "Delaware School District Organization and Boundaries" (PDF). Dover, Delaware: Delaware State Department of Instruction. p. 6 (PDF p. 12/97). Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  2. 1 2 Gadsden, Brett (2012-10-08). Between North and South Delaware, Desegregation, and the Myth of American Sectionalism. University of Pennsylvania Press. p.  86. ISBN   9780812207972 – via Google Books.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Louis L. Redding Comprehensive High School". State of Delaware. Retrieved 2025-04-01.
  4. 1 2 3 McVey, Shauna (2014). Middletown. Arcadia Publishing. p.  109. ISBN   9781467120784.
  5. ↑ Parra, Esteban (1994-09-29). "Back to School". The News Journal . p.  Crossroads 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ Williams, Ron (1965-07-01). "Teaching runs like water in the Waters family". The Morning News . p.  14 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "State historic marker dedicated at Louis L. Redding School". delawareonline.com . Gannett Co. Inc. 2019-04-23. Retrieved 2025-04-03.

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