; Whereas Louis L. Redding was a member of many national organizations, including— (1) the National Bar Association; (2) the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; (3) the National Lawyers Guild; and (4) the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee; Whereas Louis L. Redding was awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Award by the National Education Association and an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Brown University; Whereas the University of Delaware established the Louis L. Redding Chair for the Study of Law and Public Policy in the School of Education; Whereas Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Kluger described Louis L. Redding as a man who fought, largely alone, for the civil rights and liberties of Black Delawareans; Whereas former Secretary of Transportation William T. Coleman, Jr., stated that the giants of the civil rights movement were Houston Hastings, Louis L. Redding, and Thurgood Marshall; Whereas, on September 29, 1998, Louis L. Redding died at the age of 96 in Lima, Pennsylvania; Whereas Louis L. Redding broke down barriers and paved the way for countless African-American lawyers to follow in his footsteps, including— (1) Theophilus Nix, Sr., the second African American to pass the Delaware bar exam; (2) Joshua W. Martin III, the first African-American president of the Delaware Bar Association; (3) Frank H. Hollis, the first African-American attorney to represent corporate clients in Delaware; (4) Paulette Sullivan Moore, the first African-American woman to pass the Delaware bar exam; (5) Leonard L. Williams, the second African-American judge in Delaware; (6) Haile L. Alford, the first African-American female judge in Delaware; (7) Arlene Coppadge, the first African-American female judge appointed to the Delaware Family Court; (8) Gregory M. Sleet, the first African American to be appointed as the United States Attorney for the District of Delaware and the first African-American judge to serve on the United States District Court for the District of Delaware