Louis L. Redding Comprehensive High School

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 Delaware’s first African American lawyer, Louis L. Redding, who was known […]

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First African-American Schoolhouse in Hockessin

NC-194: Originally Installed in 2012. Local tradition states that a school was present at this location as early as 1829. However, in 1878 the first documented school for African-Americans in Hockessin was established in this vicinity. The school for funded and built primarily by the local African-American community and church. Additional support for materials, books, […]

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