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"...to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests."

The National Lawyers Guild is dedicated to the need for basic and progressive change in the structure of our political and economic system. Through its members -- lawyers, law students, jailhouse lawyers, and legal workers united in chapters and committees -- the Guild works locally, nationally and internationally as an effective political and social force in the service of the people.

Our aims:
. to eliminate racism;
. to safeguard and strengthen the rights of workers, women, farmers and minority groups, upon whom the welfare of the entire nation depends;
. to maintain and protect our civil rights and liberties in the face of persistent attacks upon them;
. to use the law as an instrument for the protection of the people, rather than for their repression.



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Louis Redding
1901-1998
A National Lawyers Guild Luminary


  • The only African-American attorney in Delaware, 1929-1956
  • Argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1952 & 1953 in the school segregation cases collectively known as Brown v. Board of Ed. He had previously won the case that made Delaware the first state to admit Black children to "white" schools; the state's appeal became one of the Brown cases.
  • In 1950, won Parker v. University of Delaware, desegregating the public university of a strategic border state. This was the first time that an undergraduate school was desegregated by court order.
  • Won the case that desegregated the "Eagle Coffee Shop" in Wilmington in 1961.
  • B.A., Brown, 1923
  • J.D., Harvard, 1928
  • Memorialized at the school he helped desegregate with an endowed professorship in his name, the Louis L. Redding Chair for the Study of Law and Public Policy in the University of Delaware's College of Human Resources.
  • Has a middle school in Middleton, DE, named for him.