Everything about Charles Hamilton Houston totally explained
Charles Hamilton Houston (
September 3,
1895–
April 22,
1950) was an
African American lawyer, Dean of
Howard University Law School and
NAACP Litigation Director who helped play a role in dismantling the
Jim Crow laws and helped train future Supreme Court justice
Thurgood Marshall. He was educated at
Amherst College, where he was valedictorian, and at
Harvard Law School, where he graduated cum laude and was a member of the
Harvard Law Review. Known as "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow."
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), he played a role in nearly every civil rights case before the
Supreme Court between 1930 and
Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Houston's plan to attack and defeat
Jim Crow segregation by using the inequality of the "separate but equal" doctrine (from the Supreme Court's
Plessy v. Ferguson decision) as it pertained to public education in the United States was the masterstroke that brought about the landmark
Brown decision.
Cases argued before the Supreme Court
Legacy
Houston was posthumously awarded the NAACP's
Spingarn Medal in 1950 and, in 1958, the main building of the Howard University School of Law was dedicated as
Charles Hamilton Houston Hall. His importance became more broadly known through the success of Thurgood Marshall and after the 1983 publication of
Genna Rae McNeil's
Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights.
Houston is the namesake of the
Charles Houston Bar Association and the
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School, which opened in the fall of 2005. In addition, there's a professorship at Harvard Law named after him; currently, the Dean of Harvard Law School,
Elena Kagan, is also the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law.
Houston was a member of
Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate
Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.
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