loc_evenhand_cph.3c17797 cph.3c17797 evenhand loc yes Louis L. Redding, left, of Wilmington, Del., and Thurgood Marshall, general counsel for NAACP, conferring at the Supreme Court, during a recess in the court's hearing on racial integration in the public schools National Association for the Advancement of Colored People United States. Supreme Court Segregation in education--United States African Americans--Civil rights School integration--United States African American lawyers--United States Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 Redding, Louis L. In 1929 Louis L. Redding, a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, became the first African American attorney in Delaware--the only one for more than twenty years. He devoted his practice to civil rights law and served as the counsel for the NAACP Delaware branch. In 1949 Redding won the landmark Parker case, which resulted in the desegregation of the University of Delaware. In 1951, Redding and Greenberg tried two cases in Delaware's Chancery Court: Bulah v. Gebhart and Belton v. Gebhart, which respectively concerned elementary school and high school. On April 1, 1952, Judge Collins Seitz ordered the immediate admission of black students to Delaware's white public schools, but the local state-run-school board appealed the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. Associated Press photo. Wide World photo. Collection finding aid available. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Library of Congress "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty Collection (Library of Congress) 2005/2006 Group portraits Photographic prints Black-and-white photographs http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c17797 Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records. Exhibited: With an Even Hand: Brown v. Board of Education at Fifty Years, Durham Western Heritage Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 2005-2006. 1955 Washington (D.C.) Publication of some images may be restricted. For information see LC P&P Restrictions Notebook. 20090526 204835